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Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Ernest Augustus Charles Brudenell-Bruce, 3rd Marquess of Ailesbury (1811-1886), Courtier and politician: MP for Marlborough

MP for Marlborough.


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.