Regency Portraits Catalogue

Thomas Clarkson (1760-1846), Slavery abolitionist

Philanthropist and a leader of the anti-slavery movement.

'... has a head like a Patriarch, & must have been in his Prime a noble figure …' (Haydon's Diary, 8 April 1841).

This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Walker, Regency Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, 1985, 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.