Regency Portraits Catalogue
John Samuel Murray (1778-1843), Publisher
- Gallery portraits
- All known portraits
- Biography and References
c.1833
Oil by Pickersgill still in the John Murray collection, three-quarter-length reading MS, bust of Byron to left, engraved by Finden for Illustrations of Life and Works of Lord Byron published by Murray 1833 and exhibited RA 1834 (367), Manchester 1857 (328), Third Exhibition of National Portraits, South Kensington, 1868 (288) and 'Byron', V&A Museum, 1974 (E7) reproduced plate 19.
1837
Oil by Samuel Lane exhibited RA 1837 (182).
c.1840
Oil by Watson Gordon known from Lupton's large mezzotint published 1840.
Undated
Pencil drawing by Maclise in V&A Museum (loan from National Gallery) inscribed: John Murray and laid into a volume of 76 pages.
Mezzotint by unknown engraver in NPG print collection shows an unknown man, probably John Murray, three-quarter-length seated facing with leather-bound quarto vols. of Parry's Voyages and Southey's Peninsula Wars I 1823, both published by Murray.
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.
Oil by Pickersgill still in the John Murray collection, three-quarter-length reading MS, bust of Byron to left, engraved by Finden for Illustrations of Life and Works of Lord Byron published by Murray 1833 and exhibited RA 1834 (367), Manchester 1857 (328), Third Exhibition of National Portraits, South Kensington, 1868 (288) and 'Byron', V&A Museum, 1974 (E7) reproduced plate 19.
1837
Oil by Samuel Lane exhibited RA 1837 (182).
c.1840
Oil by Watson Gordon known from Lupton's large mezzotint published 1840.
Undated
Pencil drawing by Maclise in V&A Museum (loan from National Gallery) inscribed: John Murray and laid into a volume of 76 pages.
Mezzotint by unknown engraver in NPG print collection shows an unknown man, probably John Murray, three-quarter-length seated facing with leather-bound quarto vols. of Parry's Voyages and Southey's Peninsula Wars I 1823, both published by Murray.
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.