Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

A painting by Sir J. Watson Gordon is in the collection of Messrs Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh, exhibited RA, 1856 (424), Royal Scottish Academy, 1857 (350), and VE, 1892 (303); a painting by N. J. Crowley, exhibited Royal Hibernian Academy, 1837, is listed by W. G. Strickland, Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), I, 238; a water-colour attributed to the sitter's nephew, Edward Warren, was in the collection of Miss E. Ashton Jonson, 1916; busts by H. Weigall senior and T. Earle, and a medallion by M. Wood, were exhibited RA, 1849 (1271), 1856 (1322), and 1857 (1302); various woodcuts, photographs and reproductions of photographs are in the NPG, and others were published ILN, XII (1848), 323, XXIX (1856), 598, and LXXI (1877), 137.


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.