Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Arthur Aikin (1773-1854), Chemist and geologist

The only other recorded likenesses of Aikin are, an engraving by J. Thomson, after S. Drummond, published J. Asperne, 1819 (example in British Museum), for the European Magazine, and a lithograph by S. Holden, after a silhouette by G. Kendrick, listed by F. Johnson, Catalogue of Engraved Norfolk and Norwich Portraits (1911), p 2.


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.