Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue
Sydney Morgan (née Owenson), Lady Morgan (1783?-1859), Novelist
- Gallery portraits
- All known portraits
- Biography and References
Novelist; née Owenson; published verse and Irish songs; The Wild Irish Girl (1806) established her as a novelist; wrote several novels on Irish themes; married Sir T. C. Morgan, 1812; published successful accounts of her travels in France and Italy; first woman to receive a pension, 1837.
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.
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.