Samuel Lover
(1797-1868), Songwriter, novelist and painterEarly Victorian Portraits Catalogue Entry
Sitter in 5 portraits
Artist associated with 7 portraits
Irish song-writer, novelist and portrait painter, who founded the Dublin University Magazine and helped to found Bentley's Magazine. He wrote plays, poems and parodies, published ballads, and Legends and Stories of Ireland, 1831.
by Samuel Lover
pencil
NPG 5811
by Edward Arlington Foley
marble bust, 1839
NPG 627
by Herbert Watkins
albumen print, arched top, late 1850s
NPG P301(144)
by Southwell Brothers
albumen carte-de-visite, 1863
NPG x45469
by Charles Baugniet, printed by M & N Hanhart, published by Leader & Cock, published by Duff & Hodgson
lithograph, 1844
NPG D37459
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