Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

A drawing by E. Goodwyn Lewis of 1869 is in the collection of Mr and Mrs Graham Hutton; a posthumous bronze medallion by A. Legros is in the Manchester City Art Gallery; a bronze statue by T. Woolner of c.1878 is in the Victoria Embankment Gardens, London; an early daguerreotype, and a cameo by, or derived from a work by, Cunningham of Falmouth, are reproduced H. S. R. Elliot, The Letters of John Stuart Mill (1910), I, frontispiece, and facing 233; these were once in the collection of Mary Taylor, the daughter of Mill's stepson, Algernon Taylor, but are now untraced (see Times Literary Supplement, 11 November 1949, p 733); there are various photographs taken in the later part of Mill's life (examples in NPG and elsewhere); there are over twenty recorded caricatures, in Punch, Fun, Judy, etc, including one in the London Serio-Comic Journal, 23 November 1868, and another in Vanity Fair, 29 March 1873, for which there is a water-colour study of the head in the NPG. I would like to thank Professor F. E. Mineka of Cornell University for his help with the foregoing iconography.


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.