Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

There are a great many self-portraits of Hunt, mostly in water-colour; British Museum (2); Victoria and Albert Museum (with daughter and niece); Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight, reproduced Connoisseur, LXXXVIII (1931), 81; Alpine Club Gallery, 1962 (99); collection of Vokins, 1903; sale of S. Barlow of Middleton, Christie's, 19 June 1875 (lot 42), recorded and sketched by G. Scharf, 1877, Sir George Scharf's Trustees' Sketch Books (NPG archives), XXIII, 36; collection of M. H. Spielmann, exhibited British Empire Exhibition, Wembley Palace of Art, London, 1924 (V 125), reproduced 'Illustrated Souvenir', p 65; SKM, 1868 (585); collection of Colonel M. H. Grant, 1954. A drawing by J. G. P. Fischer is in the British Museum; a bust by A. Munro is in the Royal Society of Painters in Water-Colours, reproduced as a woodcut ILN, XLIV (1864), 536; two woodcuts were published in The Critic, and ILN, 1858 (cuttings in NPG), and another, after a photograph by J. and C. Watkins, was published ILN, XLIV (1864), 181; there are two photographs in the 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.