Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue
Thomas Wright (1789-1875), Prison philanthropist
- Gallery portraits
- All known portraits
- Biography and References
A painting by Sir J. Watson Gordon of 1853 is in the boardroom, HM Prison, Manchester; a painting of Wright 'Visiting a Condemned Prisoner' by Major C. Mercier is in the Guildhall Art Gallery, London; another painting of Wright by Mercier was in the Museum and Art Gallery, Salford (now destroyed); there are various woodcuts, after photographs, in the NPG, and another was published ILN, LXVI (1875), 456.
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.