Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Mary Russell Mitford (1787-1855), Novelist and dramatist

Novelist and dramatist; published Miscellaneous Poems, 1810; wrote for magazines; contributed Our Village to Lady's Magazine, 1819; published Rienzi, Atherton, 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.