Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

A painting by H. P. Briggs is at Christ Church, Oxford, exhibited RA, 1838 (8), engraved by G. R. Ward, published Ryman, Oxford, 1839, and by R. Smith, published R. Groombridge (examples in NPG); a painting by Sir F. Grant is at Bishop Mount, Ripon, listed in his 'Sitters Book' (copy of original MS, NPG archives), under the year 1849, engraved by J. Faed, published Colnaghi, 1850 (example in NPG); a miniature by E. Tayler was exhibited RA, 1869 (656); a marble bust by E. Davis is at Lambeth Palace, exhibited RA, 1844 (1355); there are several photographs in the NPG; there is an engraving by D. J. Pound, after a photograph by Mayall (example in NPG); a woodcut, after one by J. Watkins, was published ILN, XXIX (1856), 539, and another, after Mayall, XLI (1862), 380.


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.