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BODELWYDDAN
CASTLE
Library | Portraits on display
In accordance with the setting,
the other portraits displayed in the room show some of the greatest
writers and thinkers of the Victorian period. Facing the windows,
portraits of Thomas Arnold of Rugby School and the philosopher,
Herbert Spencer, flank Millais's unfinished
painting of the great historian and essayist, Thomas Carlyle. Scientists are represented
by busts of Michael Faraday and the astronomer Sir John Herschel,
and an oil of the Scottish polymath - and inventor of the kaleidoscope
- Sir David Brewster. Other portraits include Watts's early 'Hall
of Fame' portrait of the great librarian, Sir Anthony Panizzi, a charming small portrait
of the antiquarian John Britton, and John Partridge's study of
Thomas Babington Macaulay, the historian, poet and statesman
who so influenced Victorian attitudes.
John Allen
1771-1843
Historian
by Sir Edwin Henry Landseer
1836
oil on panel
24 in. x 17 3/4 in. (610 mm x 451 mm)
NPG 384
Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of
Anglesey
1768-1854
Field-Marshal; Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland
by Richard Cockle Lucas
1851
wax medallion, oval
6 3/4 in. x 5 7/8 in. (171 mm x 149 mm)
NPG 5270
Thomas Arnold
1795-1842
Headmaster of Rugby School
by Thomas Phillips
1839
oil on canvas
48 in. x 39 in. (1219 mm x 991 mm)
NPG 1998
John Avery
1807-1855
Surgeon
attributed to Henry Collen
miniature on ivory
8 in. x 5 3/4 in. (203 mm x 146 mm)
NPG 1893
Sir David Brewster
1781-1868
Scientist and writer; invented kaleidoscope
by Sir John Watson-Gordon
1864
oil on canvas
50 in. x 39 3/4 in. (1270 mm x 1010 mm)
NPG 691
John Britton
1771-1857
Antiquary and topographer
by John Wood
1845
oil on canvas
17 3/8 in. x 14 in. (442 mm x 356 mm)
NPG 667
Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881
Historian and essayist
by Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
1877
oil on canvas
46 in. x 34 3/4 in. (1168 mm x 883 mm)
NPG 968
Alfred Clint
1807-1883
Etcher and marine painter; son of George Clint
attributed to Alfred Clint
miniature on ivory
4 5/8 in. x 3 1/2 in. (118 mm x 89 mm)
NPG 4616
Sir John Conroy, 1st Bt
1786-1854
Man of fashion
by Alfred Tidey
1836
miniature on ivory
6 1/8 in. x 4 1/2 in. (155 mm x 114 mm)
NPG 2175
Michael Faraday
1791-1867
Scientist
by; after Sir Thomas Brock; John Henry Foley
1886 (1877)
marble bust
32 in. (813 mm)
NPG 748
Edward Fitzgerald
1809-1883
Poet; translator of 'Rubaiyat of Omar Khayy·m'
by; after a photograph by Eva, Lady Rivett-Carnac; Unknown
photographer
(1873)
miniature on ivory, oval
2 1/2 in. x 2 in. (64 mm x 51 mm)
NPG 1342
Thomas Garnier
1776-1873
Dean of Winchester
by Richard Cockle Lucas
1850
wax medallion, oval
7 in. x 5 1/4 in. (178 mm x 133 mm)
NPG 4844
Philip Henry Gosse
1810-1888
Zoologist
by William Gosse
1839
miniature on ivory
2 1/2 in. x 2 in. (64 mm x 51 mm)
NPG 2367
Henry Hallam
1777-1859
Historian
by Richard Cockle Lucas
1851
wax relief, oval
7 3/4 in. x 5 3/4 in. (197 mm x 146 mm)
NPG 3119
Sir John Herschel, 1st Bt
1792-1871
Astronomer; son of Sir William Herschel
by Edward Hodges Baily
1850
plaster cast of bust
31 1/2 in. (800 mm)
NPG 4056
Henry Bickersteth, Baron Langdale
1783-1851
Master of the Rolls
by Henry Collen
1829
miniature on ivory
4 7/8 in. x 3 7/8 in. (124 mm x 98 mm)
NPG 1773
Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence
1806-1857
General
by Unknown artist
circa 1847
miniature on ivory
4 1/2 in. x 3 3/8 in. (114 mm x 87 mm)
NPG 727
John Lingard
1771-1851
Roman Catholic historian
by Thomas Skaife
1848
Miniature on ivory, oval portrait
4 3/8 in. x 3 3/8 in. (111 mm x 86 mm)
NPG 4304
Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
1800-1859
Historian, poet and statesman
by John Partridge
circa 1849-1853
oil on canvas
37 in. x 29 1/4 in. (940 mm x 743 mm)
NPG 1564
Sir Frederic Madden
1801-1873
Antiquary and palaeographer
by Richard Cockle Lucas
1849
wax medallion, oval
7 1/4 in. x 5 5/8 in. (184 mm x 143 mm)
NPG 1979
William James Müller
1812-1845
Landscape painter
by William James Müller
miniature on ivory
3 1/8 in. x 2 3/4 in. (79 mm x 70 mm)
NPG 1304
Daniel O'Connell
1775-1847
Irish politician
by Bernard Mulrenin
1836
miniature on ivory, irregular oval
6 1/8 in. x 5 1/4 in. (155 mm x 133 mm)
NPG 208
Sir Anthony Panizzi
1797-1879
Principal Librarian of the British Museum
by George Frederic Watts
circa 1847
oil on canvas
29 3/4 in. x 29 5/8 in. (756 mm x 752 mm)
NPG 1010
Sir Anthony Panizzi
1797-1879
Principal Librarian of the British Museum
by Richard Cockle Lucas
1850
wax medallion, oval
6 3/4 in. x 5 1/8 in. (171 mm x 130 mm)
NPG 2187
Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, 1st Bt
1810-1895
Soldier, diplomat and Assyriologist
by Richard Cockle Lucas
1850
wax medallion, irregular oval
6 3/4 in. x 5 in. (171 mm x 127 mm)
NPG 1714
Samuel William Reynolds
1773-1835
Mezzotint engraver and painter
by Elizabeth Walker (née Reynolds)
circa 1830?
miniature on ivory, oval
3 3/8 in. x 2 3/4 in. (86 mm x 70 mm)
NPG 2123
Sir William Charles Ross
1794-1860
Miniaturist
by Hugh Ross
exhibited 1843
miniature on ivory
5 in. x 3 7/8 in. (127 mm x 98 mm)
NPG 1946
Frederick Sandys
1829-1904
Painter
by Anthony Sands
1848
oil on millboard
6 3/4 in. x 5 1/4 in. (171 mm x 133 mm)
NPG 1741
Herbert Spencer
1820-1903
Philosopher
by John Bagnold Burgess
1872
oil on canvas
46 in. x 37 1/2 in. (1168 mm x 953 mm)
NPG 1358
William Makepeace Thackeray
1811-1863
Novelist
by Nevill Northey Burnard
circa 1867
marble bust
17 1/4 in. (438 mm)
NPG 738
Queen Victoria
1819-1901
Reigned 1837-1901
by Mary Helen Carlisle
miniature on ivory, oval
3 1/4 in. x 4 in. (83 mm x 102 mm)
NPG 2088
Bennett Woodcroft
1803-1879
Clerk to commissioners of patents; textile manufacturer and
inventor
by Unknown artist
miniature on ivory, oval
3 1/2 in. x 2 1/2 in. (89 mm x 64 mm)
NPG 5416
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