Regency Portraits Catalogue
James Northcote (1746-1831), Painter; pupil and biographer of Sir Joshua Reynolds
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Painter, author and conversationalist.
'His head was covered with a blue silk night-cap, and from under that and his projecting brows, his sharp black eyes peered at me with a whimsical expression of inquiry ...' (C. R. Leslie, Autobiographical Recollections, I, p 68).
'... like an old eagle looking from his eyrie in the clouds …’ (Hazlitt).
'His head was covered with a blue silk night-cap, and from under that and his projecting brows, his sharp black eyes peered at me with a whimsical expression of inquiry ...' (C. R. Leslie, Autobiographical Recollections, I, p 68).
'... like an old eagle looking from his eyrie in the clouds …’ (Hazlitt).
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Fletcher (ed.) 1901Conversations of James Northcote RA with James Ward, ed. Fletcher 1901.
Gosse (ed.) 1894
Conversations of James Northcote RA with William Hazlitt, ed. Gosse, 1894.
Gwynn 1898
Stephen Gwynn, Memorials of an Eighteenth Century Painter, 1898 with an incomplete appendix of Northcote's paintings; the NPG copy of Gwynn is annotated with additions from the Register.
Northcote MS Register in NPG library, entered for 1776 to 1830, excluding the years in Italy 1777-9.
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Walker, Regency Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, 1985, 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.