Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue
Richard Lemon Lander (1804-1834), Explored the course of the Niger
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A statue by N. N. Burnard of 1852 (based on the bust by Brockedon (see NPG 2442), and a sitting from Lander's daughter (see ILN, XX (1852), 248) is on top of the Lander column at Truro (now much weathered); an engraving by T. A. Dean, after W. Bagg junior, was published Colburn and Bentley, 1830, for Lander's Records of Captain Clapperton's Last Expedition to Africa, frontispiece; an anonymous engraving was published J. Murray, 1832 (example in NPG), for R. and J. Lander, Journal of an Expedition to Explore the Course and Termination of the Niger, 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.
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.