Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

A painting by F. R. Say is in the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, exhibited RA, 1835 (195), and SKM, 1868 (395) engraved by G. R. Ward, published McLean, 1842 (example in NPG); another version is in the collection of Brigadier W. G. Carr, Ditchingham Hall; a third smaller version was recorded in the collection of Mrs J. W. Croker, Kensington Palace, 1880, by G. Scharf, Sir George Scharf's Trustees' Sketch Books (NPG archives), XXVII, 47; a painting by F. R. Say was sold from the Peel collection, Robinson and Fisher, 6-7 December 1917 (lot 56); it was begun in 1844, but interrupted by Follett's illness, and was never finished (see Gentleman's Magazine, N.S. XXVII, 1847, 291); a painting by C. Stonhouse was exhibited RA, 1840 (507); a drawing by J. Doyle is in the British Museum, lithographed anonymously, published T. McLean, 1845 (example in NPG); a drawing by F. Stone is in the Scottish NPG; a marble statue by W. Behnes of 1849 is in Westminster Abbey, exhibited RA, 1849 (1204), reproduced as a woodcut ILN, XV (1849), 164; a plaster cast is at Haldon Belvedere; a marble bust by E. B. Stephens is in the Devon and Exeter Institution, exhibited RA, 1842 (1327); busts by W. Behnes and C. A. Rivers were exhibited RA, 1843 (1520), and 1845 (1317); an engraving by H. T. Ryall, after A. E. Chalon, was published Ryall, Fraser and Moon, 1836 (example in NPG), for 'Portraits of Conservative Statesmen'; a woodcut was published ILN, VII (1845), 5.


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.