Henry Tanworth Wells
(1828-1903), Miniature and portrait painterSitter in 8 portraits
Artist associated with 107 portraits
Trained as an artist from a young age, exhibiting at the Royal Academy from the age of eighteen. He specialised in painting miniatures, but the development of photography rapidly made this form of artistic production obsolete, and he turned his attention to painting in oils. He exhibited his first oil portrait at the Royal Academy in 1861, became an associate five years later and was elected a full academician in 1870. Wells was chiefly known as the painter of groups of regiments and volunteers. He also produced about fifty crayon portraits of political and society figures. His best know work is Victoria Regina (1880), which depicts Princess Victoria receiving the news of her accession.
Sir Robert George Wyndham Herbert
after Henry Tanworth Wells
collotype, (1897)
NPG D20742
after Henry Tanworth Wells
collotype, (1897)
NPG D20748
after Henry Tanworth Wells
collotype, 1897-1901
NPG D20754
by The Autotype Company, after Henry Tanworth Wells
collotype, (1897)
NPG D35265
after Henry Tanworth Wells
collotype, (1897)
NPG D9645
after Henry Tanworth Wells
collotype, 1897-1901
NPG D9700
by The Autotype Company, after Henry Tanworth Wells
collotype, (1897)
NPG D9785
Sidney Herbert, 14th Earl of Pembroke, 11th Earl of Montgomery
after Henry Tanworth Wells
collotype, 1897
NPG D9895
Sir Robert George Wyndham Herbert
by The Autotype Company, after Henry Tanworth Wells
collotype, (1897)
NPG D11165
Robert Bannatyne Finlay, 1st Viscount Finlay
after Henry Tanworth Wells
collotype, (1898)
NPG D20751
George Robert Canning Harris, 4th Baron Harris
after Henry Tanworth Wells
collotype, (1898)
NPG D20752
Robert Bannatyne Finlay, 1st Viscount Finlay
after Henry Tanworth Wells
collotype, (1898)
NPG D9738
George Robert Canning Harris, 4th Baron Harris
after Henry Tanworth Wells
collotype, (1898)
NPG D9790
William Court Gully, 1st Viscount Selby
after Henry Tanworth Wells
collotype, (1899)
NPG D20755
Henry Brougham Loch, 1st Baron Loch
by The Autotype Company, after Henry Tanworth Wells
collotype, (1899)
NPG D20756
after Henry Tanworth Wells
collotype, (1899)
NPG D20757
Sir Edward Ridley Colborne Bradford, 1st Bt
after Henry Tanworth Wells
collotype, (1900)
NPG D20746
Sidney Herbert, 14th Earl of Pembroke, 11th Earl of Montgomery
after Henry Tanworth Wells
collotype, (1900)
NPG D20747
Sir (Charles) Thomas Dyke Acland, 12th Bt
after Henry Tanworth Wells
collotype, (1900)
NPG D20758
Sir Edward Ridley Colborne Bradford, 1st Bt
after Henry Tanworth Wells
collotype, (1900)
NPG D8039
Sir (Charles) Thomas Dyke Acland, 12th Bt
after Henry Tanworth Wells
collotype, 1900
NPG D9585
after Henry Tanworth Wells
collotype, (1901)
NPG D20753
William Waldegrave Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne
after Henry Tanworth Wells
collotype, (1901)
NPG D20759
William Waldegrave Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne
after Henry Tanworth Wells
collotype, (1901)
NPG D18078
Walter Hume Long, 1st Viscount Long of Wraxall
by Henry Tanworth Wells
collotype, (1902)
NPG D20760
Walter Hume Long, 1st Viscount Long of Wraxall
by Henry Tanworth Wells
collotype, (1902)
NPG D18080
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