Regency Portraits Catalogue
Sir William Gell (1777-1836), Archaeologist
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1811-27
Drawing by Lady Charlotte Lindsay of Gell as a young man was in the artist's commonplace book, sold Phillips 2 July 1981 (307).
c.1814
Drawing by an unknown artist reproduced in Edith Clay, Sir William Gell in Italy, 1976, plate II.
1816
Drawing by Cornelius Varley (NPG 5086).
1828
Drawing by Count D'Orsay in HM Embassy, Athens, dated: Naples 28 janvier 1828.
1830
Drawings by Thomas Uwins (see NPG 1491).
c.1832
Self-portrait drawing in the British School in Rome, a caricature of Gell hobbling on two sticks during a visit to Tusculum, reproduced in Edith Clay, Sir William Gell in Italy, 1976, plate IX.
Undated
Madden says 'there are several busts of Sir William Gell but none of them a good likeness. With the exception of a less aquiline nose, he bore a strong resemblance to the statue, said to be of Aristedes, in the Museum of Naples' (Richard Madden, Literary Life and Correspondence of the Countess of Blessington, 1855, II, p 20).
Posthumous
1838
Tablet to his memory, by Samuel Cundy, in Westminster Abbey.
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.
Drawing by Lady Charlotte Lindsay of Gell as a young man was in the artist's commonplace book, sold Phillips 2 July 1981 (307).
c.1814
Drawing by an unknown artist reproduced in Edith Clay, Sir William Gell in Italy, 1976, plate II.
1816
Drawing by Cornelius Varley (NPG 5086).
1828
Drawing by Count D'Orsay in HM Embassy, Athens, dated: Naples 28 janvier 1828.
1830
Drawings by Thomas Uwins (see NPG 1491).
c.1832
Self-portrait drawing in the British School in Rome, a caricature of Gell hobbling on two sticks during a visit to Tusculum, reproduced in Edith Clay, Sir William Gell in Italy, 1976, plate IX.
Undated
Madden says 'there are several busts of Sir William Gell but none of them a good likeness. With the exception of a less aquiline nose, he bore a strong resemblance to the statue, said to be of Aristedes, in the Museum of Naples' (Richard Madden, Literary Life and Correspondence of the Countess of Blessington, 1855, II, p 20).
Posthumous
1838
Tablet to his memory, by Samuel Cundy, in Westminster Abbey.
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.