Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax (1800-1885), Whig politician; Chancellor of the Exchequer
- Gallery portraits
- All known portraits
- Biography and References
Statesman; MP from 1826; served in the administrations of Grey and Melbourne; chancellor of the exchequer, 1846-52; president of the board of control, 1852-5; first lord of the admiralty, 1855-8; secretary of state for India, 1859-66; raised to the peerage, 1866; lord privy seal, 1870-4.
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.
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.