Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue
James Silk Buckingham (1786-1855), Writer and traveller
- Gallery portraits
- All known portraits
- Biography and References
A painting by H. W. Pickersgill (with his wife, both dressed in oriental costume) was in the collection of Miss Ellen Buckingham Newry, 1916, exhibited RA, 1825 (39); a miniature by E. D. Smith (with his son) was exhibited RA, 1841 (854); a bust by E. Smith is at Cutler's Hall, Sheffield, possibly the bust reproduced R. E. Turner, James Silk Buckingham (1934), located at Cutler's Hall, but said to be by Theed; a bust by W. Theed was exhibited RA, 1848 (1458); an etching by W. Brooke was published H. Colburn, for J. S. Buckingham, Travels in Assyria Media and Persia (1829), frontispiece; an engraving by G. T. Doo (example in NPG) was published J. S. Buckingham, Autobiography (1855), I, frontispiece; an engraving (in Arabian costume) by W. T. Fry was published Longman, Hirst, etc, 1827 (example in NPG).
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.
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.