Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue
James Spedding (1808-1881), Author and editor of the works of Francis Bacon
- Gallery portraits
- All known portraits
- Biography and References
Editor of Francis Bacon; one of the Cambridge 'Apostles'; remained a close friend of Tennyson, Fitzgerald and others; wrote on Shakespeare; his editions of Bacon's Works (1857-9) and Life and Letters (1861-74) were the result of thirty years of scholarship.
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.
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.