Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

A painting by H. W. Pickersgill (with his wife, both dressed in oriental costume) was in the collection of Miss Ellen Buckingham Newry, 1916, exhibited RA, 1825 (39); a miniature by E. D. Smith (with his son) was exhibited RA, 1841 (854); a bust by E. Smith is at Cutler's Hall, Sheffield, possibly the bust reproduced R. E. Turner, James Silk Buckingham (1934), located at Cutler's Hall, but said to be by Theed; a bust by W. Theed was exhibited RA, 1848 (1458); an etching by W. Brooke was published H. Colburn, for J. S. Buckingham, Travels in Assyria Media and Persia (1829), frontispiece; an engraving by G. T. Doo (example in NPG) was published J. S. Buckingham, Autobiography (1855), I, frontispiece; an engraving (in Arabian costume) by W. T. Fry was published Longman, Hirst, etc, 1827 (example in NPG).


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.