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Regency Portraits Catalogue

Sir Samuel Romilly (1757-1818), Solicitor-General and law reformer

Solicitor-General and law reformer.

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Davies 1946
Martin Davies, The British School, National Gallery Catalogue, 1946, pp 94-6.

Garlick 1964
Kenneth Garlick, 'Catalogue of Paintings, Drawings and Pastels of Sir Thomas Lawrence' in Walpole Society Journal, XXXIX, 1964, p 170.

Ilchester 1937
Earl of Ilchester, The Home of the Hollands, 1937.

Medd 1968
Patrick Medd, Romilly, 1968.

Memoirs of the Life of Sir Samuel Romilly ... edited by his Sons, 3 vols., 1840.



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.