Thomas Carlyle: Historian of Heroes
Past display archive
14 July 2014 - 30 March 2015
Room 24: case display
Free
Thomas Carlyle
by Sir George Scharf
1874
NPG 2794
The display showcases a selection of the Gallery’s varied iconography of ‘the Sage of Chelsea’, alongside portraits of his wife, Jane, contemporaries Edward Irving, Alfred Tennyson, Charles Dickens and John Stuart Mill, and his controversial biographer, James Anthony Froude.
© National Portrait Gallery, London
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- Thomas Carlyle (NPG 2894)
- Thomas Carlyle (NPG 1241)
- John Stuart Mill (NPG P46)
- Thomas Carlyle (NPG P122)
- Thomas Carlyle (NPG 2794)
- Thomas Carlyle (NPG 3558)
- Jane Baillie Carlyle (née Welsh) (NPG x5665)
- James Anthony Froude (NPG Ax7536)
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson (NPG x8005)
- Charles Dickens (NPG x14339)
- Thomas Carlyle (NPG x5660)
- James Anthony Froude (NPG Ax17811)
- Thomas Carlyle (NPG x46497)
- Edward Irving (NPG D36452)
- Thomas Carlyle (NPG D2019)
- Thomas Carlyle (NPG D2020)
- Thomas Carlyle ('Men of the Day no. 12.') (NPG D32681)
Related sitters
Related artists
- Alfred, Count D'Orsay
- Friedrich Bruckmann
- Julia Margaret Cameron
- Elliott & Fry
- James Fraser
- Harry Furniss
- Richard James Lane
- Daniel Maclise
- Mason & Co (Robert Hindry Mason)
- Henry Meyer
- John Mitchell
- James Mudd
- James Nisbet
- Carlo Pellegrini
- Andrew Robertson
- Sir George Scharf
- Robert Scott Tait
- Edward Matthew Ward
- John Watkins
- John & Charles Watkins
- Thomas Woolner