Regency Portraits Catalogue
Sir James McGrigor, 1st Bt (1771-1858), Army surgeon
- Gallery portraits
- All known portraits
- Biography and References
1813-18
Portraits by Heaphy, see NPG 1914(8).
c.1815-20
Oil by Jackson still in the family collection (Dalmally), known from a mezzotint by W. Ward, three-quarter-length seated in dark suit, Star of Tower and Sword of Portugal and Gold Medal of the Turkish Crescent, lettered '… from a Portrait presented to his Family by the Medical Officers of the Army' (John Chaloner Smith, British Mezzotint Portraits).
1823
Oil by Dyce at Marischal College, Aberdeen, commissioned by the students (Marcia Pointon, Dyce, 1979, plate 16).
1832
Political satire by G. Cruikshank ridicules the Board of Health (of which McGrigor was a member) and its hopelessly ineffective quarantine measures (British Museum Catalogue, 16955).
1835
Oil by Wilkie in RAMC Millbank, half-length in crimson-lined fur-trimmed cloak, Star of KCB, signed and dated: D. Wilkie f 1835, exhibited Third Exhibition of National Portraits, South Kensington, 1868 (267).
c.1839
Oil by Henry Room, still in the family collection (Renfrewshire), known from a stipple engraving by Holl used as a plate in Pettigrew's Memoirs of Physicians, 1840, II, 21, half-length seated as an elderly man wearing Ribbon of the Bath and Star of Tower and Sword.
Posthumous
c.1860
Bust by Theed in RMC Sandhurst.
1865
Bronze statue by Noble in RAMC Millbank. Granite obelisk in Aberdeen.
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.
Portraits by Heaphy, see NPG 1914(8).
c.1815-20
Oil by Jackson still in the family collection (Dalmally), known from a mezzotint by W. Ward, three-quarter-length seated in dark suit, Star of Tower and Sword of Portugal and Gold Medal of the Turkish Crescent, lettered '… from a Portrait presented to his Family by the Medical Officers of the Army' (John Chaloner Smith, British Mezzotint Portraits).
1823
Oil by Dyce at Marischal College, Aberdeen, commissioned by the students (Marcia Pointon, Dyce, 1979, plate 16).
1832
Political satire by G. Cruikshank ridicules the Board of Health (of which McGrigor was a member) and its hopelessly ineffective quarantine measures (British Museum Catalogue, 16955).
1835
Oil by Wilkie in RAMC Millbank, half-length in crimson-lined fur-trimmed cloak, Star of KCB, signed and dated: D. Wilkie f 1835, exhibited Third Exhibition of National Portraits, South Kensington, 1868 (267).
c.1839
Oil by Henry Room, still in the family collection (Renfrewshire), known from a stipple engraving by Holl used as a plate in Pettigrew's Memoirs of Physicians, 1840, II, 21, half-length seated as an elderly man wearing Ribbon of the Bath and Star of Tower and Sword.
Posthumous
c.1860
Bust by Theed in RMC Sandhurst.
1865
Bronze statue by Noble in RAMC Millbank. Granite obelisk in Aberdeen.
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.