Mid-Georgian Portraits Catalogue
George Allan (1736-1800), Antiquary and topographer
- Gallery portraits
- All known portraits
- Biography and References
c.1770-75
Pastel by an unknown artist, see NPG 4307.
c.1785
Drawing by J. Hay, with the antiquary and historian of Durham, William Hutchinson (1732-1814), seated at table with manuscripts. Engraved J. Collyer 1814 (for J. Nichols, Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century, 1812-1815, VIII), the plate originally intended for the first volume of Hutchinson’s History of Durham, published in 1785 (J. Nichols, Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century, 1812-1815, VI, p 351).
1792
Pastel by Henry Spicer, half length, holding a book, two volumes of Camden’s Britannia on a shelf behind him. Christie’s, 9 October 1989, lot 41. Spicer also painted in 1792 the sitter’s sons, George (1767-1828) and James (1772-95), sold Motcomb Galleries, London, 3 April 1963, lot 244; Bonham’s, 28 February 1980, lot 47, and (George alone) Phillips, 13 October 1989, lot 225.
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.
Pastel by an unknown artist, see NPG 4307.
c.1785
Drawing by J. Hay, with the antiquary and historian of Durham, William Hutchinson (1732-1814), seated at table with manuscripts. Engraved J. Collyer 1814 (for J. Nichols, Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century, 1812-1815, VIII), the plate originally intended for the first volume of Hutchinson’s History of Durham, published in 1785 (J. Nichols, Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century, 1812-1815, VI, p 351).
1792
Pastel by Henry Spicer, half length, holding a book, two volumes of Camden’s Britannia on a shelf behind him. Christie’s, 9 October 1989, lot 41. Spicer also painted in 1792 the sitter’s sons, George (1767-1828) and James (1772-95), sold Motcomb Galleries, London, 3 April 1963, lot 244; Bonham’s, 28 February 1980, lot 47, and (George alone) Phillips, 13 October 1989, lot 225.
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.