Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Sir William John Codrington (1804-1884), General

General; distinguished himself during the Crimean war at Alma and Inkerman; commander-in-chief at Sebastopol, 1855-6; governor of Gibraltar, 1859-65; general, 1863.


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.