Alfred, Count D'Orsay
(1801-1852), Amateur artist and man of fashionSitter associated with 13 portraits
Artist associated with 267 portraits
Alfred Guillaume Gabriel, Count D'Orsay was a French amateur artist, dandy, and man of fashion in the early- to mid-nineteenth century. In 1830, D'Orsay moved to London, where he worked as a sculptor and a painter, specialising in portraiture. In 1845, he painted a portrait of Wellington. His statuettes of Napoleon and Wellington were very popular, as were engravings of many of his portraits, including those of Queen Victoria, Lord Lyndhurst and Dwarkanath Tagore. More than 125 profile sketches of his contemporaries were published by Mitchell of Bond Street, including among them nearly all the artistic, literary and fashionable celebrities of the time.
Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)
by Alfred, Count D'Orsay
pencil and chalk, 1841
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by Alfred, Count D'Orsay
pencil and chalk, 1841
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by Alfred, Count D'Orsay
pencil and chalk, 1841
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by Alfred, Count D'Orsay
pencil and chalk, 1841
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by Alfred, Count D'Orsay
pencil and chalk, 1842
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Charles Augustus Bennet, 6th Earl of Tankerville
by Alfred, Count D'Orsay
pencil and chalk, 1842
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Mrs Thomas Jenkins, Baroness de Calabrella
by Alfred, Count D'Orsay
pencil and chalk, 1843
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William Craven, 2nd Earl of Craven
by Alfred, Count D'Orsay
pencil and chalk, 1843
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by Alfred, Count D'Orsay
pencil and chalk, 1843
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Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex
by Alfred, Count D'Orsay
pencil, 1843
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Charles William Bury, 2nd Earl of Charleville
by Alfred, Count D'Orsay
pencil and chalk, 1844
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George Cecil Weld Weld-Forester, 3rd Baron Forester
by Alfred, Count D'Orsay
pencil and chalk, 1844
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by Alfred, Count D'Orsay
pencil and chalk, 1844
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by Alfred, Count D'Orsay
pencil and chalk, 1844
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by Alfred, Count D'Orsay
pencil and chalk, 1845
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by Alfred, Count D'Orsay
pencil, chalk and stump, 1845
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Rainald Knightley, 1st Baron Knightley
by Alfred, Count D'Orsay
pencil and chalk, 1845
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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
by Alfred, Count D'Orsay
oil on canvas, 1845
On display at Kings College London, London
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by Alfred, Count D'Orsay
pencil and chalk, 1847
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by Alfred, Count D'Orsay
pencil and chalk, 1847
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