Regency Portraits Catalogue
Henry William Bunbury (1750-1811), Artist and caricaturist
- Gallery portraits
- All known portraits
- Biography and References
1765-6
Oil by Reynolds with sittings in winter 1765-6, as a youth holding book, probably lost in the fire at Naunton Hall 1914 but known from a mezzotint by J. Blackmore (John Chaloner Smith, British Mezzotint Portraits, I).
1769
Pen and ink drawing by Thomas Patch in Paul Mellon Collection; Bunbury also appears as the central figure in Patch's 'Caricature Group in Florence' in the collection of the late W. S. Lewis;
both are reproduced by F. J. B. Watson in Apollo, 85, 1967, pp 348-9.
Undated
Pastel by Francis Cotes believed destroyed by fire at Barton Hall, Suffolk, 1912.
Miniature called 'William Bunbury' in the style of Ozias Humphry c.1790 was at Sotheby's 25 November 1974 (114).
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Walker, Regency Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, 1985, 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.
Oil by Reynolds with sittings in winter 1765-6, as a youth holding book, probably lost in the fire at Naunton Hall 1914 but known from a mezzotint by J. Blackmore (John Chaloner Smith, British Mezzotint Portraits, I).
1769
Pen and ink drawing by Thomas Patch in Paul Mellon Collection; Bunbury also appears as the central figure in Patch's 'Caricature Group in Florence' in the collection of the late W. S. Lewis;
both are reproduced by F. J. B. Watson in Apollo, 85, 1967, pp 348-9.
Undated
Pastel by Francis Cotes believed destroyed by fire at Barton Hall, Suffolk, 1912.
Miniature called 'William Bunbury' in the style of Ozias Humphry c.1790 was at Sotheby's 25 November 1974 (114).
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Walker, Regency Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, 1985, 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.