Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick (1783-1848), Antiquary

Antiquary; ecclesiastical and admiralty lawyer; adviser on armour to the Tower of London and Windsor Castle; high sheriff of Herefordshire, 1834; wrote a history of Cardiganshire, a history of arms and armour, and other 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.