Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

A drawing by Count A. D'Orsay of 1839 is in the collection of Ray Murphy, ex-Phillipps collection, lithographed by R. J. Lane, published J. Mitchell (example in NPG); a self-portrait drawing of c.1831 is in the Denham Album (no.97) at Yale University Library, reproduced R. H. Barham, The Life and Remains of Theodore Edward Hook (1849), I, facing 305; two anonymous engravings were published H. Colburn, 1839 and 1841 (examples in NPG); there is an engraving by G. Murray (example in NPG); an engraving by S. Freeman, after Bennett, was published 1807 (example in British Museum), for the Monthly Mirror (another example in NPG has an inscription by Hook disclaiming connexions with John Bull - dating it to c.1820); an engraving by G. Cook, also after Bennett, was published R. Bentley, 1848 (example in NPG); an engraving by D. Maclise was published Fraser's Magazine, IX (April 1834), facing 435, as no.47 of Maclise's ‘Gallery of Illustrious Literary Characters', a drawing for which is in the Victoria and Albert Museum; Hook appears in the engraving of 'The Fraserians' by D. Maclise, published Fraser's Magazine, XI (January 1835), between 2 and 3, two drawings for which are in the Victoria and Albert Museum; an anonymous engraving of 1808 is reproduced R. H. Barham (1849), I, frontispiece.


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.