Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

A painting by H. W. Pickersgill is in the Scottish NPG, and so is a drawing by J. Penstone, engraved by the artist, published Cunningham and Mortimer (example in NPG), a marble bust by H. Weekes, exhibited RA, 1842 (1396), and a plaster bust by Sir F. Chantrey; a painting by Sir W. Boxall was exhibited RA, 1836 (80), and SKM, 1868 (300); a painting by F. W. Wilkin was sold at Christie's, 22 July 1871 (lot 65), possibly that lithographed by the artist (example in British Museum); a painting called Cunningham and attributed to Sir D. Wilkie was in the collection of J. J. Bell; a miniature by C. Fox was exhibited RA, 1837 (843); two busts by F. W. Smith were exhibited RA, 1823 (1060), and 1826 (1042); a marble bust by J. Fillans was exhibited RA, 1837 (1255); an engraving by D. Maclise was published Fraser's Magazine, VI (1832), facing 249, as no. 28 of Maclise's 'Gallery of Illustrious Literary Characters'; a pencil study is in the Victoria and Albert Museum; an engraving by F. Roffe was published J. Limbird, 1822 (example in NPG); an engraving by J. Jenkins, after J. Moore, was published Fisher, 1834 (example in NPG), for Jerdan's 'National Portrait Gallery'; there is an engraving by W. C. Edwards, after W. D. Kennedy (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.