Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Sir Willoughby Cotton (1783-1860), General

General; served in the Peninsula, 1809-11 and 1813-14; served in Burma, 1825-6; governor of Jamaica, 1829-34; served in the Afghan war, 1838-9; commander-in-chief in Bombay, 1847-50; general, 1854.


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.