Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859), Writer; author of 'Confessions of an Opium Eater'

Author of Confessions of an Opium Eater; a prominent literary figure in London, and a friend of Coleridge, Wordsworth, Lamb, Southey and others; published his Confessions, 1821; author of numerous other works.


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.