Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Sidney Thompson Dobell (1824-1874), Poet and critic

Poet; lived chiefly in Gloucestershire, but later wintered abroad because of his delicate health; published The Roman, 1850, Balder, 1853, sonnets on the Crimean war, 1855, and other works; a permanent invalid from 1866.


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.