Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Sir James Prior (1790?-1869), Naval surgeon and writer

Author of miscellaneous works; entered the navy as a surgeon, and wrote accounts of his voyages; deputy-inspector of hospitals, 1843; published biographies of Burke and Goldsmith.


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.