Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Richard Carlile (1790-1843), Radical publisher and writer

Freethinker and radical; disciple of Thomas Paine; wrote numerous controversial and often seditious tracts and serials; imprisoned on several occasions.


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.