Later Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Paintings, drawings, sculptures and prints
Photographs

Paintings, drawings, sculptures and printsback to top

1873
Oil on canvas, 1360 x 2150mm, by John Whitehead Walton, The First School Board for London 1870–1873, dated, half-length, slightly profile to left, standing fifth from left along back row (no.28 on key attached to frame) of large group including Elizabeth Garrett Anderson; Guildhall A G, London, 4133 (ex-coll. GLC, County Hall, London)..

c.1899
Pencil drawing by Augustus John; see NPG 6595.

c.1904
Oil on canvas by Edna Clarke Hall; see NPG 3909.


Undated portraits

Medallion plaque; affixed to wall at former NSPCC Central Office, Victory House, Leicester Sq., London, presumed destroyed. Ref. Behlmer 2004. [1]

Crayon drawing by Bertha Stapley (Waugh’s eldest daughter) after unidentified photograph; untraced; offered to NPG with NPG 3909 (see above, ‘c.1904’), but declined. Ref. NPG RP 3909. [2]

Oil painting (not from life) by unidentified artist; untraced, formerly in the NSPCC Central Office, Victory House, Leicester Sq., London. Ref. NPG RP 3909. [3]

Photographsback to top

1865
Photograph by unidentified photographer, head-and-shoulders vignette, shoulders to front, almost profile to right looking downwards; repr. Waugh 1913, facing p.46 (captioned ‘Benjamin Waugh, 1865’).

1875
Photograph by unidentified photographer, three-quarter-length to right, facing front, seated in armchair, book open on lap; repr. Waugh 1913, facing p.85 (captioned ‘Benjamin Waugh, 1875’).

c.1875
Bromide print, 155 x 108mm, by unidentified photographer, possibly from same session as item above, three-quarter-length vignette to right, seated with left elbow propped on table, supporting head, looking down towards paper on desk; NPGx27304.

mid–late 1880s
Photograph by unidentified photographer, half-length to front, facing front, with watch-chain visible and wispy beard; repr. as vignette engr. by Meisenbach, Review of Reviews 1894, p.376.

?late 1880s
Photograph by unidentified photographer, half-length to front, standing with wife and children in their garden in St Albans; modern print NSPCC, London.

Photograph by unidentified photographer, head-and-shoulders in oval, slightly profile to right, with dog collar and full beard; repr. Le Monde Illustré, 21 Mar. 1908, p.186 (cutting MEPL, London, 10082266).

publ. 1891
Photographs by the London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company, two known poses:
(a) three-quarter-length to left, facing front, seated at ornate desk holding pen to paper; repr. Review of Reviews 1891, vol.2, p.521.
(b) half-length, facing front, seated with right elbow propped on desk and left hand on lap; repr. Review of Reviews 1891, vol.1, p.539.

1905
Photographs by A. Montiville, two known poses:
(a) 206 x 134mm, quarter-length to right, profile to right with wispy beard; NPG x27303. Repr. Waugh 1913, facing p.245 (captioned ‘Benjamin Waugh, 1905’); and Waugh 1939, frontispiece.
(b) quarter-length to front, facing front; repr. Parr 1908, frontispiece; Waugh 1913, frontispiece (captioned ‘The Champion of the Child’); and as drawing after photograph, Robinson 1961, front cover.

publ. 1905
Photograph by Russell & Sons, half-length, facing forwards, seated behind desk, with full white beard; repr. Sunday Magazine, vol.34, 1905, p.663.

c.1906
Photograph by unidentified photographer, whole-length to right, profile to right, reclining in garden next to his first grandson; repr. Waugh 1913, facing p.277.


Footnotes
1) This plaque is no longer visible in situ (and no photograph is known). Email from Nicholas Malton, Records Manager, NSPCC, 22 Mar. 2012, confirms that it does not survive in the NSPCC’s possession.
2) ‘The portrait of Benjamin Waugh is very precious, he was “too busy” when asked to be painted’: letter from Bertha Stapley to C.K. Adams, 31 May 1945, NPG RP 3909. There is no known photographic record for this portrait.
3) ‘I am delighted that all uncertainty has been dispelled from your mind, regarding my father’s founding of the “National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children”. I had, all along, a letter from Mr Morton the present Director – stating it was his intention, “with the full consent of his Committee”, to have the inscription “Founder etc.” placed with an oil painting (not from life) at the head office’; letter from Rosa Hobhouse to C.K. Adams, 26 Mar. 1955, NPG RP 3909. Email from Nicholas Malton, Records Manager, NSPCC, 22 Mar. 2012, confirms that this portrait is no longer with the NSPCC. There is no known photographic record for it.

Elizabeth Heath