Regency Portraits Catalogue

Benjamin Heath Malkin (1769-1842), Historian and writer

Headmaster of Bury St Edmunds Grammar School 1809-28 and Professor of History at London University 1830-42. His A Father's Memoir of his Child, 1806 was illustrated by Blake and his translation of Gil Blas, 1809 by Smirke.


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.