Regency Portraits Catalogue
George Crabbe (1754-1832), Poet
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1802
Miniature of 'Mr Crabb' by George Slous exhibited RA 1802 (879).
1817
Oil by Phillips at 50 Albemarle Street commissioned by John Murray in 1817 - 'among other claims upon me was one of Mr Murray's to whom tho we have no other Connection, I am engaged to sit for my Picture & Mr Phillips, a Painter well known has succeeded in taking not only a good likeness but he has also made an excellent picture …'; two sittings are recorded in Crabbe's Journal during July 1817; Crabbe appears with Scott, Southey and Campbell in Phillips's Sitter Book for December 1818, all kit-cats; a copy is entered under July 1822 painted for Lady Holland and later at Lansdowne House (sketch by Scharf in Sir George Scharf’s Sketchbooks, 103, p 46).
1815-19
Oils by Pickersgill (see NPG 1495).
1821
Drawings by Chantrey dated 1821 (NPG 316a(24a) and (24b)) but no Chantrey bust is known.
Undated
Two oils by Samuel Laurence at Christie's (Laurence sale) 12 June 1884 (152 and 153); lot 153 has 'blue eyes, white hair, crimson coat' (sketch and notes by Scharf in annotated cat. in NPG library).
Miniature by Rolinda Sharples in Bristol Art Gallery (Sharples Collection).
Posthumous
1847
Marble bust by Thurlow in Aldeburgh church, Suffolk.
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.
Miniature of 'Mr Crabb' by George Slous exhibited RA 1802 (879).
1817
Oil by Phillips at 50 Albemarle Street commissioned by John Murray in 1817 - 'among other claims upon me was one of Mr Murray's to whom tho we have no other Connection, I am engaged to sit for my Picture & Mr Phillips, a Painter well known has succeeded in taking not only a good likeness but he has also made an excellent picture …'; two sittings are recorded in Crabbe's Journal during July 1817; Crabbe appears with Scott, Southey and Campbell in Phillips's Sitter Book for December 1818, all kit-cats; a copy is entered under July 1822 painted for Lady Holland and later at Lansdowne House (sketch by Scharf in Sir George Scharf’s Sketchbooks, 103, p 46).
1815-19
Oils by Pickersgill (see NPG 1495).
1821
Drawings by Chantrey dated 1821 (NPG 316a(24a) and (24b)) but no Chantrey bust is known.
Undated
Two oils by Samuel Laurence at Christie's (Laurence sale) 12 June 1884 (152 and 153); lot 153 has 'blue eyes, white hair, crimson coat' (sketch and notes by Scharf in annotated cat. in NPG library).
Miniature by Rolinda Sharples in Bristol Art Gallery (Sharples Collection).
Posthumous
1847
Marble bust by Thurlow in Aldeburgh church, Suffolk.
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.