Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Sir Edward Codrington (1770-1851), Admiral

Admiral; commanded a ship at Trafalgar; commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean, 1827; destroyed the Turkish fleet at Navarino, 1827; admiral, 1837; retired from active service, 1842.


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.