Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1st Bt (1792-1872), Antiquary, bibliophile and collector

Antiquary and bibliophile; amassed a huge and highly important collection of books and manuscripts (now dispersed); printed genealogies, registers and catalogues on his own private press.


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.