Regency Portraits Catalogue
Henry Mackenzie (1745-1831), Novelist
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Novelist; author of The Man of Feeling, 1771, essayist, editor of The Mirror, and an early Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
'In person he was thin, shrivelled and yellow, kiln-dried, with something when seen in profile of the clever wicked look of Voltaire' (Lord Cockburn, Memorials of His Time).
'In person he was thin, shrivelled and yellow, kiln-dried, with something when seen in profile of the clever wicked look of Voltaire' (Lord Cockburn, Memorials of His Time).
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Armstrong 1901Sir Walter Armstrong, Sir Henry Raeburn, 1901.
Thompson 1927
H. W. Thompson, The Anecdotes and Egotisms of Henry Mackenzie, 1927.
Thompson 1931
H. W. Thompson, A Scottish Man of Feeling, 1931.
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Walker, Regency Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, 1985, 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.