Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Thomas Cubitt (1788-1855), Builder

A painting by H. W. Pickersgill (originally full-length, now cut down) is in the collection of the London Master-Builders, exhibited RA, 1849 (212), engraved by G. R. Ward (example in NPG); a related miniature and a variant half-length copy are owned by Cubitt Estates Ltd, the latter reproduced Country Life CXLV (1969), 1155; a marble bust by P. Macdowell of 1856 is at Denbies, Dorking, exhibited RA, 1856 (1368).


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.