Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue
Sir William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865), Botanist
- Gallery portraits
- All known portraits
- Biography and References
Director of Kew Gardens; formed collection of Norfolk birds; visited Iceland and printed Recollections, 1811; regius professor of botany at Glasgow, 1820; director of Kew Gardens, 1841, which he developed into an unrivalled botanical establishment; published a vast number of botanical 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.