Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Sir George de Lacy Evans (1787-1870), General

General; served in Peninsula; engaged at Waterloo; MP from 1831; commanded British Legion aiding Christina of Spain against Don Carlos, 1835-7; engaged in the Crimea; general, 1861.


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.