Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Thomas Arnold (1795-1842), Headmaster of Rugby School

A painting by an unknown artist, and drawings by Lydia Penrose and Jane Arnold, are reproduced N. G. Wymer, Dr Arnold of Rugby (1953), facing pp 74, 33 and 161; a miniature by A. Tidey was exhibited RA, 1836 (849), listed by Dr S. Tidey, 'List of Miniatures by Alfred Tidey' (typescript, 1924, Victoria and Albert Museum Library), p 8, under 1836, where other Arnold family miniatures are also listed; a bust by A. Gilbert and a recumbent effigy by J. Thomas are at Rugby School.


This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Ormond, Early Victorian Portraits, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1973, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.