Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue
Sir William Hay Macnaghten, Bt (1793-1841), Diplomat and orientalist
- Gallery portraits
- All known portraits
- Biography and References
Diplomatist; went to India, 1809; served in various administrative posts; appointed envoy to the Afghan court at Kabul, 1838; nominated governor of Bombay, 1841, but shot by the rebels in Kabul before he could take up his post.
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.