Later Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Hercules Brabazon Brabazon (1821-1906), Painter

Self-portraits
Doubtful self-portraits
By other artists
Photographs

Self-portraitsback to top


?1850
Pencil drawing, signed and inscr. 'Rome', head-and-shoulders, nude torso to left, head turned and facing front; untraced; Sotheby's, 16 June 1977 (98). Said to be dated 1850.

Doubtful self-portraitsback to top


Drawing, head-and-shoulders to left, wearing glasses, hat and smock; untraced; Sotheby’s, 19 Oct. 1989 (201, ill.).

Watercolour drawing, self-portrait after Rembrandt; untraced; Philips, 16 May 1983 (82, not ill.).


By other artistsback to top


1855
Pencil drawing by unidentified artist, inscr. ‘H.B. Brabazon / May 15th 1855’, half-length to left; priv. coll. Repr. Brabazon 1986, title-page.

early 1890s
Oil on canvas by John Singer Sargent; see NPG 5706.

Oil on canvas sketch by John Singer Sargent, head-and-shoulders to right; NM Wales, Cardiff, A179. Repr. Ormond & Kilmurray 2002, p.74.

1890s
Charcoal drawing by John Singer Sargent, head to right; Met., New York, 50.130.123.

Drawing by John Singer Sargent, head-and-shoulders to right; untraced.
Print by H. Fitzner Davey after Sargent; cutting, NPG SB (Brabazon). Repr. Festing 1991, pl.18.

1894
Red and black chalk drawing by William Rothenstein, signed, head-and-shoulders profile to right, wearing top hat; BM, London, 1904,0116.1. Repr. Rothenstein 1931–2, vol.1, facing p.188. Possibly exh. SPP, 11th exh., 1901 (94); see NPG 6687 below.

Red and black chalk drawing by William Rothenstein; see NPG 6687.


Photographsback to top


publ. 1898
Photograph by unidentified photographer, head-and-shoulders to left, wearing black hat. Repr. as halftone, The Year’s Art 1898, facing p.20.

late 1890s
Photograph by unidentified photographer, three-quarter-length, seated to right, profile with black hat, leafing through portfolio. Repr. Brabazon 1997, p.7.

Photograph by Gertrude Jekyll, seated whole-length to left on doorstep, Munstead House, wearing hat, examining sheet of paper with Leonard Borwick, in group of five; untraced. Repr. Massingham 1975, p.15.

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