Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

There are two similar paintings by L. Dickinson, one in the collection of the Rev D. B. Maurice, the other at Queen's College, London (1886), exhibited VE, 1892 (217); there are three related drawings, all dated 1859, Queen's College, collection of R. L. Ormond, and collection of Mrs G. E. Yates; one of these may have been the drawing exhibited RA, 1859 (492); the type was engraved by F. Holl, published Macmillan, 1884, for J. F. Maurice, Life of F. D. Maurice, II, frontispiece; a painting by Dickinson for the Working Men's College was exhibited RA, 1873 (586); a painting attributed to Sir J. E. Millais is in the collection of Professor Boyland; Maurice appears with Carlyle in F. M. Brown's 'Work' in the City Art Gallery, Manchester, where there is also a pencil study for the figure of Maurice; a smaller version of 'Work' is in the City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham; a bust by T. Woolner is mentioned by the artist in a letter of 1859, for which see Amy Woolner, Thomas Woolner: his Life in Letters (1917), p 162; another bust by Woolner was executed for the Working Women's College in 1861, and replicas are in Westminster Abbey, and the Old Schools, Cambridge (1873), the latter reproduced J. W. Goodison, Catalogue of Cambridge Portraits plate XXIII; a modern bronze plaque by E. and M. Gillick is part of Maurice's memorial at Cambridge, exhibited RA, 1937 (1427), reproduced Royal Academy Illustrated (1937), p 130; there are two photographs in the NPG, and a reproduction of a third.


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.