Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

James Atkinson (1780-1852), Army surgeon and Oriental scholar

Persian scholar and amateur artist; trained as a doctor, he occupied a number of posts in India, and elsewhere in the East; published translations from Persian.


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.