Regency Portraits Catalogue
John Wilson Croker (1780-1857), Essayist and politician, Secretary to the Admiralty and MP for several constituencies
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Politician and author of The Croker Papers; Secretary of the Admiralty 1809-29.
'His head, of the same type as that of Canning and Sir Thomas Lawrence, was handsome and spoke of a quick, acute and active intelligence' (Theodore Martin in Dictionary of National Biography).
‘Baldness, perhaps contributed to the spiritual expression of a brow, which was however, essentially intellectual, and gave some character of openness to a countenance which, though not ill-favoured, was unhappily stamped by a sinister cast that was not to be mistaken' (Disraeli describing Rigby in Coningsby; 'they were not portraits, they were photographs' said Disraeli when asked about his characters).
'His head, of the same type as that of Canning and Sir Thomas Lawrence, was handsome and spoke of a quick, acute and active intelligence' (Theodore Martin in Dictionary of National Biography).
‘Baldness, perhaps contributed to the spiritual expression of a brow, which was however, essentially intellectual, and gave some character of openness to a countenance which, though not ill-favoured, was unhappily stamped by a sinister cast that was not to be mistaken' (Disraeli describing Rigby in Coningsby; 'they were not portraits, they were photographs' said Disraeli when asked about his characters).
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Brightfield 1951M. J. Brightfield, John Wilson Croker, 1951, frontispiece.
Jennings (ed.) 1884
Croker Papers, ed. Jennings, 1884.
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.