Frederick Burnaby
(1842-1885), Soldier, traveller and balloonistFrederick Gustavus Burnaby
Later Victorian Portraits Catalogue Entry
Sitter in 10 portraits
Burnaby's exploits as a cavalry officer and explorer captured every schoolboy's imagination; over six feet four inches tall, he was reputed to be the strongest man in the British Army; his books about his adventures, including A Ride to Khiva, 1876, and On Horseback through Asia Minor, 1877, were bestsellers; in 1885 he took part in the relief expedition to Khartoum in the Sudan, and died from a spear wound.
by James Jacques Tissot
oil on panel, 1870
NPG 2642
by Harry Furniss
pen and ink, 1880-1885
NPG 3428
by Donovan
albumen carte-de-visite, 1870s
NPG x4900
by Lock & Whitfield, published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington
woodburytype, published 1877
NPG Ax17544
by Lock & Whitfield
woodburytype on paper mount, 1877 or before
NPG x4901
by Lock & Whitfield
woodburytype, 1877 or before
NPG Ax8705
by Lock & Whitfield
woodburytype, circa 1877
NPG x4902
by Thomas Fall
albumen cabinet card, 1885 (before November 1884)
NPG x135501
Frederick Burnaby ('Men of the Day. No. 143.')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 2 December 1876
NPG D43773
published by Charles Sheard, probably after Lock & Whitfield
lithograph, circa 1885
NPG D42965
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