Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue
Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay (1800-1859), Historian, poet and politician; MP for Calne, Leeds and Edinburgh; Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery
- Gallery portraits
- All known portraits
- Biography and References
Historian; son of the philanthropist, Zachary Macaulay; barrister, 1826; became a mainstay of the Edinburgh Review; MP from 1830; member of the supreme council of India, 1834-8; secretary at war, 1839-41; published first part of famous History, 1848; one of the great English intellectual figures of the 19th century.
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.