Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

John Ramsay McCulloch (1789-1864), Statistician and economist

Statistician and political economist; edited Scotsman, 1818-20; contributed to Edinburgh Review, 1818-37; published Principles of Political Economy, 1825; professor of political economy, London University, 1828-32; comptroller of Stationery Office, 1838-64; published several works on statistics and economics.


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.