Mid-Georgian Portraits Catalogue
Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782), Composer
- Gallery portraits
- All known portraits
- Biography and References
c.1754
Painting by Georg Mathieu, half length. Berlin, Staatsbibliothek (illus. C. S. Terry, J. C. Bach, rev. ed., 1967, pl.3). The identification is traditional.
1776
Painting by Thomas Gainsborough, see NPG 5557.
Posthumous
1782
Design for a monument by Agostino Carlini, incorporating a medallion portrait, engraved F. Bartolozzi 1782 (illus. C. S. Terry, J. C. Bach, rev. ed., 1967, pl.32) and J. F. Schröter 1789.
c.1790
Caricature by Thomas Rowlandson, inscribed Concerto Spirituale and Messrs Boch [sic] & Abel (Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif., 59.55.1099), appears to show Abel playing the oboe with J. C. Bach on the viola da gamba.
Undated
Plaster bust, said to have been made in London, and a miniature by E. H. Abet [E. A. Abel?] belonged to members of the Bach family in, respectively, Bückeburg and Hamburg in 1792 (E. Gerber, Historisch Biographisches Lexicon, 1792, II, pp 61, 68).
Doubtful Portraits
Unattributed half-length, Trinity College of Music, London, and version sold Sotheby’s, 22 July 1993, lot 571 (illus. C. S. Terry, J. C. Bach, rev. ed., 1967, pl.6 as J. C. Bach); portrait by Gainsborough, Cincinnati Art Museum (Musical Quarterly, 74, 2, 1990, pp 295-302, but cf. E. K. Waterhouse, Gainsborough, 1958, no.485).
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: John Ingamells, National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian Portraits 1760-1790, National Portrait Gallery, 2004, 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.
Painting by Georg Mathieu, half length. Berlin, Staatsbibliothek (illus. C. S. Terry, J. C. Bach, rev. ed., 1967, pl.3). The identification is traditional.
1776
Painting by Thomas Gainsborough, see NPG 5557.
Posthumous
1782
Design for a monument by Agostino Carlini, incorporating a medallion portrait, engraved F. Bartolozzi 1782 (illus. C. S. Terry, J. C. Bach, rev. ed., 1967, pl.32) and J. F. Schröter 1789.
c.1790
Caricature by Thomas Rowlandson, inscribed Concerto Spirituale and Messrs Boch [sic] & Abel (Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif., 59.55.1099), appears to show Abel playing the oboe with J. C. Bach on the viola da gamba.
Undated
Plaster bust, said to have been made in London, and a miniature by E. H. Abet [E. A. Abel?] belonged to members of the Bach family in, respectively, Bückeburg and Hamburg in 1792 (E. Gerber, Historisch Biographisches Lexicon, 1792, II, pp 61, 68).
Doubtful Portraits
Unattributed half-length, Trinity College of Music, London, and version sold Sotheby’s, 22 July 1993, lot 571 (illus. C. S. Terry, J. C. Bach, rev. ed., 1967, pl.6 as J. C. Bach); portrait by Gainsborough, Cincinnati Art Museum (Musical Quarterly, 74, 2, 1990, pp 295-302, but cf. E. K. Waterhouse, Gainsborough, 1958, no.485).
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: John Ingamells, National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian Portraits 1760-1790, National Portrait Gallery, 2004, 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.