Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Sir George Gilbert Scott Sr (1811-1878), Architect; father of George Gilbert Scott Jr

Architect; pupil of Robert Smirke; designed and restored a large number of cathedrals and churches; designed the Foreign Office, St Pancras Station and the Albert Memorial; one of the most influential and prolific neo-Gothic architects of the period.


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.