Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue
Sir Arthur Helps (1813-1875), Essayist and historian
- Gallery portraits
- All known portraits
- Biography and References
Clerk of the privy council; private secretary to Thomas Spring-Rice (later Lord Monteagle), and later to Lord Morpeth; commissioner of French, Danish and Spanish claims; clerk to the privy council, 1860-75; revised works by Queen Victoria; published history books, biographies and 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.
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.