Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

William Allen (1793-1864), Rear-Admiral

Naval officer and explorer; took part in Niger expeditions of 1832, and 1841-2; published books of travel.


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.