Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Francis Stephen Cary (1808-1880), Painter and teacher of art

Artist and art teacher; took over Sass' well-known Art School in Bloomsbury, 1842; several famous artists received their first training there.


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.