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Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

John Cox Dillman Engleheart (1784-1862), Miniature painter

A drawing by G. Engleheart (his uncle) of c.1796 is in the Engleheart collection, exhibited British Portrait Miniatures, Edinburgh, 1965 (253), reproduced Williamson and Engleheart, George Engleheart (1902), facing p 64; a miniature by himself of c.1810, and a drawing of 1821 are in the Engleheart collection, exhibited Essex and Suffolk Houses, the Minories, Colchester, 1964 (50o and 50g), the latter reproduced Williamson and Engleheart, facing p 22; another version of the 1821 drawing is also in the Engleheart collection, as are several other self-portrait miniatures and drawings; a water-colour by himself, with his wife, is in the collection of W. A. Twiston-Davies, listed by J. Steegman, Survey of Portraits in Welsh Houses, II (1962), 149 (15).


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.