Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Duncan McNeill, Baron Colonsay and Oronsay (1793-1874), Judge

A painting by J. Phillip of 1866, exhibited RA, 1866 (93), reproduced A. A. Grainger Stewart, Portraits in ... Parliament House, Edinburgh (1907), no. 12, and a marble bust by Sir J. Steell of 1856, are in the Faculty of Advocates, Edinburgh; a painting by T. Duncan and a plaster bust by Sir J. Steell (related to the marble) are in the Scottish NPG; an etching by B. W. Crombie of 1848 is reprinted in W. S. Douglas, Crombie's Modern Athenians (Edinburgh, 1882), plate 39.


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.