Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Samuel Morley (1809-1886), Businessman, politician and philanthropist

A painting by H. T. Wells is in the Congregational Memorial Hall, London, exhibited RA, 1874 (664); a painting by W. W. Ouless was exhibited RA, 1884 (273); busts by H. Wiles (marble), E. Bennett, and W. Merrett were exhibited RA, 1867 (1050), 1867 (1148), and 1887 (1814), respectively; there is a woodcut for the Christian Portrait Gallery, and a lithographic caricature by 'Pet' (examples in NPG); there are several photographs in the NPG, and one was lithographed in colour for Cassell's National Portrait Gallery; a woodcut, after a photograph by Elliott and Fry, was published ILN, LVIII (1871), 169; Morley appears in 'The Eastern Question Conference', woodcut published ILN, LXIX (1876), 576-7.


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.