Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Robert Monsey Rolfe, Baron Cranworth (1790-1868), Judge

Lawyer; barrister, 1816; MP, 1832 onwards; solicitor-general, 1834; vice-chancellor, 1850; raised to peerage, 1850; lord chancellor, 1852-8, and 1865-6.


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.