Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue
Charles James Blomfield (1786-1857), Bishop of London
- Gallery portraits
- All known portraits
- Biography and References
Bishop of London, 1828 onwards; instituted a fund for building and endowing churches, 1836; involved in the controversies over the Tractarian movement; edited various Greek texts, including five plays by Aeschylus.
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.
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.