Regency Portraits Catalogue
William Murdock (1754-1839), Inventor of gas lighting
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1819
Marble bust by Behnes exhibited RA 1819 (901).
1824-7
Bust by Chantrey (see NPG 316a(91-2)).
1839
Bust by Papworth in City Art Gallery Birmingham.
Undated
Oil attributed to Raeburn at Doldowlod, James Watt's farmhouse at Llandrindod Wells (John Steegman, A Survey of Portraits in Welsh Houses, II, p 209).
Oil by John Graham-Gilbert in City Art Gallery Birmingham with a replica in Edinburgh Royal Society.
Posthumous
c.1930
Bronze memorial group to Boulton, Watt and Murdock by William Bloye in Broad Street Birmingham.
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.
Marble bust by Behnes exhibited RA 1819 (901).
1824-7
Bust by Chantrey (see NPG 316a(91-2)).
1839
Bust by Papworth in City Art Gallery Birmingham.
Undated
Oil attributed to Raeburn at Doldowlod, James Watt's farmhouse at Llandrindod Wells (John Steegman, A Survey of Portraits in Welsh Houses, II, p 209).
Oil by John Graham-Gilbert in City Art Gallery Birmingham with a replica in Edinburgh Royal Society.
Posthumous
c.1930
Bronze memorial group to Boulton, Watt and Murdock by William Bloye in Broad Street Birmingham.
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.