Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

James Martineau (1805-1900), Unitarian minister and writer

Unitarian divine; apprenticed as engineer; studied divinity, 1822-7; pastor in Liverpool; professor of mental and moral philosophy and political economy at Manchester New College, 1840-57, and later professor of religious philosophy; joint-editor of Prospective Review, 1845-54; published numerous religious and philosophical works.


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.