Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Henry Fothergill Chorley (1808-1872), Music critic

Critic; clerk in Liverpool; contributed musical criticisms to the Athenaeum, and subsequently joined the staff; wrote unsuccessful novels and plays, memoirs on music, a life of Mrs Hemans and an autobiography.


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.