Regency Portraits Catalogue

Spencer Perceval (1762-1812), Prime Minister

Prime Minister 1809-12, assassinated in lobby of House of Commons 11 May 1812.

'... unusually pale and only emphasised it by habitually dressing in black' (Denis Gray, Spencer Perceval: the Evangelical Prime Minister, 1963, p 15).

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Gray 1963
Denis Gray, Spencer Perceval: the Evangelical Prime Minister, 1963.

Smith 1920
J. T. Smith, Nollekens and his Times, 2 vol. edn., 1920.

Walpole 1874
Spencer Walpole, Life, 2 vols., 1874.



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.