Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

A so-called self-portrait was in the collection of Colonel M. H. Grant; a sketch, presumably in oil, by W. Brockedon was exhibited RA, 1812 (139); a painting attributed to J. Opie is listed by A. Earland, John Opie and his Circle (1911), p 309; a water-colour by an unknown artist was in the collection of Mrs E. K. Driver, 1957 a drawing by H. Edridge was in the collection of John Montagu, 1936; a drawing or miniature by C. Forster was exhibited RA, 1838 (939); a miniature by J. P. Fischer of 1835 was exhibited RA, 1837 (777), and Royal House of Guelph, New Gallery, London, 1891 (1071), recorded and sketched by G. Scharf, 1877, Sir George Scharf's Trustees' Sketch Books (NPG archives), XXIII, 34; a miniature by R. Satchwell was exhibited RA, 1808 (793); a miniature by an unknown artist is in the Royal Collection, Windsor; an anonymous woodcut, after Sir W. C. Ross, was published Art Journal (1849), p 76; an anonymous engraving was published Magazine of Art (1898), p 588.


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.