Later Victorian Portraits Catalogue

By other artists
Undated portraits
Photographs

By other artistsback to top

1890
Two silverpoint drawings by Alphonse Legros; see NPG 2431 and NPG 2432.

publ. 1892
Drawing by Alfred Bryan for Press Day at the Royal Academy, at left, seated three-quarters to right, left hand on hip, wearing top hat, monocle, in composite portrait group of art critics; untraced. Repr. AJ, July 1892, p.195.

c.1904
Pen and ink caricature drawing by Henry Tonks, whole-length, standing at left, in group with Roger Fry and Dugald Sutherland MacColl examining a woman in the pose of the Rokeby Venus; BM, London, 1938,0108.3.

1914
Watercolour and gouache caricature drawing by Edmund Dulac, La Légende de Joseph [Joseph and Potiphar’s wife], full-length, in tunic, resisting blandishments of woman on couch; Wallace Coll., London, PA17. Repr. Duffy & Hedley 2004, p.499.

Pencil and watercolour caricature drawing by Max Beerbohm, Going On (roundel), whole-length, walking to left; untraced; Christie’s, 27 Mar. 1997 (91, ill.). Ref. Hart-Davis 1972, no.1153.
Pencil and wash caricature by Max Beerbohm, undated preparatory drawing for item above, half-length to left, eyes closed, wearing white tie; Wallace Coll., London, PA16. Repr. Duffy & Hedley 2004, p.499.

1916
Watercolour drawing by Percy Anderson, half-length, full-face; BM, London, 1928,0512.1.

1924
Sketch by Dugald Sutherland MacColl on a table plan of dinner to celebrate foundation of National Gallery, 2 Apr. 1924; Dept of Special Colls., U. of Glasgow, GB 0247 MS MacColl P76. [1]

Undated portraitsback to top

Mixed-media caricature-doll, by Edmund Dulac, whole-length, standing with head thrown back, wearing white tie; untraced. Exh. Edmond Dulac Memorial Exh., Leicester G., London, 1953; see photograph, Wallace Coll. Archive, London. [2]

Undated caricatures by Max Beerbohm:
Sir Claude Phillips endeavouring, under the auspices of Mr Ernest Brown, not to think my caricatures are in the worst possible taste, whole-length, profile to left; priv. coll. Ref. Hart-Davis 1972, no.1152. Repr. Brown 1968, facing p.52.

Two untitled pencil sketches, three-quarter-length, with and without lorgnette; Gernsheim Coll., U. of Texas at Austin, 65.224.71, 65.224.73. Ref. Hart-Davis 1972, nos 1154, 1155.

One untitled crayon sketch, 477 x 620mm, detailing one full-length figure and 30 heads, Phillips incl. amongst likenesses of Lord Spenser and Lewis Vernon Harcourt; Gernsheim Coll., U. of Texas at Austin, 65.224.64.

One untitled pencil sketch, 775 x 555mm, detailing 57 sketches, Phillips incl. amongst likenesses of Lord Landsdowne, Henry James, John Singer Sargent and William Rothenstein; Gernsheim Coll., U. of Texas at Austin, 65.224.65.

See also Hart-Davis 1972, nos 1266 (Resolved … is ‘amusing’, 1909; AI Chicago, 1926.547); 1267 (sketch for Resolved …, c.1909; Cincinnati PL, 1965); and 679 (The Red Cross Sale at Christie’s, April 1918, Christie’s), for group caricatures by Beerbohm that include Phillips.

Photographsback to top

publ. 1892
Photograph by Elliott & Fry, three-quarter-length, seated to right, head resting on left hand, eyes directed at camera. Repr. MA, 1892, p.225.

undated, post 1900
Photograph by L.G. Bell, whole-length, seated to left in chair by window, open book on knees; Wallace Coll. Archive, coll. of former directors’ photographs. Repr. Phillips 1925, frontispiece; and Sutton 1982, p.322.
This is the best-known image of Phillips.

Photograph by Elliott & Fry, c.1905, head-and-shoulders to left. Repr. London 1907–9, p.67.

Footnotes
1) Phillips died a few months later on 9 Aug. 1924.
2) See White 1976, pp.102–3 for other examples of these ‘dolls’ and his technique.

Carol Blackett-Ord