John Bright
(1811-1889), Statesman and oratorEarly Victorian Portraits Catalogue Entry
Sitter associated with 98 portraits
One of the most important and influential political figures of the age. Bright managed his family's cotton mills before entering public life in the 1830s. A radical orator and Liberal politician, he led the agitation for the repeal of the Corn Laws with Richard Cobden and was instrumental in the Cobden-Chevalier Treaty (1860). He sat in the House of Commons from 1843-89, promoting free trade, electoral reform and religious freedom, and was one of the most important and influential political figures of the age. A close friend of Rupert Potter, Beatrix Potter often recalled her father and Bright's conversations in her journals and he visited the Potters during their Scottish holidays.
John Bright ('Statesmen No, 3')
by Carlo Pellegrini
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 13 February 1869
NPG D43366
John Bright ('A Bright Prospect for 1872')
published by Frederick Arnold, after Unknown artist
lithograph, published in the Hornet 24 January 1872
NPG D48272
by Maclure & Macdonald, after James Russell & Sons
chromolithograph, published 1883
NPG D32143
by Alfred Concanen, published by Charles Sheard
chromolithograph, circa 1886
NPG D42768
John Bright ('Statesmen. No. 565.')
by Carlo Pellegrini
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 6 April 1889
NPG D44432
by James Jacques Joseph Tissot, and Carlo Pellegrini, and Alfred Thompson (Atn), and Sir Leslie Ward, and Théobald Chartran ('T'), and Adriano Cecioni
chromolithographs pasted onto wooden panel, assembled from prints published 1869-1886
NPG D39296
by Thomas Oldham Barlow, published by Thomas Agnew & Sons Ltd, after Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
mezzotint, based on a work of 1880
NPG D49688
by Paul Adolphe Rajon, published by Paul Adolphe Rajon, after Walter William Ouless
etching, published 1 January 1883
NPG D49689
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