Regency Portraits Catalogue

Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843), Son of King George III

As Prince Augustus Frederick
1776
Oil by Benjamin West in the Royal Collection (Buckingham Palace), family group with Prince Ernest and Prince Augustus pulling a cart (Sir Oliver Millar, The Later Georgian Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, 1969, 1145 and plate 115).

1780
Oil by West in the Royal Collection (Buckingham Palace), three-quarter-length with Windsor Castle in the background (Sir Oliver Millar, The Later Georgian Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, 1969, 1146).

1782
Oil by Gainsborough in the Royal Collection (Windsor Castle), head and shoulders in Windsor uniform (Sir Oliver Millar, The Later Georgian Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, 1969, 787 and plate 58).

1787
Wedgwood medallion by Lochée in a private collection, reproduced Robin Reilly & George Savage, Wedgwood: the Portrait Medallions, 1973.

1789
Miniature by Richard Collins in V&A Museum.

1791-5
Miniature by Edward Miles in the Royal Collection, exhibited 'George III', Queen's Gallery, 1974/5 (161); replica in the Prince of Hanover's collection (Calenberg).

1791
Miniature by Cosway in Pierpont Morgan sale Christie's 24-7 June 1935 (261) and again Christie's 13 July 1982 (165).

1792-3
Miniature known from a stipple engraving published by Messrs Robinson's, Paternoster Row, 1 January 1793, oval head and shoulders in tightly buttoned coat, Star of Garter.

1794
Oil by Danloux at Sotheby's (New York) 3 November 1983 (144), half-length signed and dated 1794 wearing Ribbon and Star of KG, exhibited RA 1795 (76).

1795
Miniature by Fraulein W. v. d. Borch known from a mezzotint by Sintzenich, head and shoulders profile to left in Windsor uniform, close curly hair (British Museum impression 1795, NPG 1799).

c.1798
Oil by Guy Head (NPG 648).

As Duke of Sussex
1801
Oil by Beechey in National Gallery of Art, Washington, head and shoulders in dark blue-green coat, Star of Garter, exhibited RA 1801 (14); a watercolour copy by G. P. Harding at Windsor Castle (A. P. Oppé, English Drawings … at Windsor Castle, 1950, 300) was engraved by Marie Anne Bourlier 19 May 1806 as part of a Royal Family series made for Queen Charlotte; an enamel copy was made by Henry Bone for Princess Elizabeth, exhibited RA 1802 (532) and engraved by E. Scriven 1807 (in the Dutch Royal Family Collection in 1924).

1803
Oil by Masquerier in a private collection USA in 1922, whole-length with its companion of Lady Augusta; mezzotint by T. Hodgetts, head and shoulders only, was published by Hodgetts in 1813, NPG impression published by Orme in 1816.

1804
Miniature by S. J. Stump in Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, head and shoulders signed and dated 1804 (R. L. Poole, Catalogue of Oxford Portraits, I, p 196).

1806-7
Miniature by Andrew Robertson exhibited RA 1806 (720); another in Aberdeen Art Gallery, half-length in Loyal North Briton uniform signed and dated 1807.

1806-11
Oil by Domenico Pellegrini in Galleria dell' Accademia di San Luca, Rome, whole-length standing at ease in Loyal North Briton uniform, exhibited 'Romantic Movement', Tate Gallery, 1959 (284); mezzotint by G. Clint published 1811.

1806
Drawing by Edridge in the Royal Collection (Windsor Castle), exhibited RA 1806 (604), whole-length standing in uniform of Loyal North Britons of which he became Colonel in 1805 (A. P. Oppé, English Drawings … at Windsor Castle, 1950, 215 and plate 20).

Oil on copper by Stroehling exhibited RA 1806 (193) as Colonel of Loyal North Britons, perhaps that in Kensington Palace (Sir Oliver Millar, The Later Georgian Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, 1969, 1100).

c.1806
Miniature by Cosway in Scottish United Services Museum, Edinburgh.

1811
Marble bust by Prosperi at Woburn Abbey; the plaster model was exhibited RA 1811 (953), the marble RA 1812 (935).

Miniature by T. Leeming exhibited RA 1811 (643).

1812
Oil by S. Drummond in Freemasons' Hall, London, head and shoulders wearing Masonic regalia, exhibited RA 1812 (206); stipple vignette by T. Blood in The European Magazine, 1 May 1812.

Oil by Harlow exhibited RA 1812 (280) and at Christie's (New York) 10 January 1980 (269); it was engraved by C. Warren as frontispiece to Transactions of the Society of Arts (1820) and mezzotint by W. J. Ward published by Sams 1825.

Oil by Masquerier exhibited RA 1812 (141) but probably based on the earlier whole-length of 1803; mezzotint by T. Hodgetts 1813.

Miniature by Trossarelli exhibited RA 1812 (562).

1813
Silhouette by C. Rosenberg known from a large line and stipple engraving by Andrea Freschi 1813, head and shoulders as Grand Master.

Gold medal by W. Wyon assumed to have been struck to commemorate the union of the two Masonic Grand Lodges in 1813 (Laurence Brown, British Historical Medals, 1980, 754).

1815-16
Oil by Beechey commissioned by the Freemasons, exhibited RA 1816 (112) and probably that now in the Fishmongers' Hall, whole-length in Highland uniform as Earl of Inverness; a replica was in the Beechey sale Christie's, 11 June 1836 (63) and a copy by B. S. Marks 1885 is in the Freemasons' Hall; a head and shoulders variant was engraved by William Skelton, 1 May 1816.

1817-23
Oil by Lonsdale at Trinity College, Cambridge, whole-length seated in Garter Robes, signed and dated 1817 and exhibited RA 1817 (300); another was RA 1818 (300) and a third RA 1823 (567), half-length only in private dress, Star of Garter, engraved by W. Skelton for T. J. Pettigrew's Bibliotheca Sussexiana, 1827.

c.1817
Portrait by W. M. Craig known from a stipple engraving by S. Freeman published by Orme 1817.

1819
Medal struck for the dedication of the Freemasons' Hall, 23 September 1819 (Laurence Brown, British Historical Medals, 1980, 990).

Miniature by W. A. Hobday exhibited RA 1819 (240) intended for the Royal Sussex Lodge of Hospitality.

c.1821
Silhouette by F. Atkinson, 'George III with his Sons and Sons-in-Law', Wellesley sale Christie's 19 June 1917 (133), reproduced in One Hundred Silhouette Portraits, 1912, plate I, and see Sue McKechnie, British Silhouette Artists and their Work 1760-1860, 1978, pp 185-6.

1825
Silhouette by George Atkinson known from an aquatint by Scriven & Sutherland, whole-length in profile with Masonic apron and symbols, published 10 October 1825.

Satire by R. Cruikshank, 'The Protestants Champion!!', whole-length strolling past the Horseguards published August 1825.

Oil by Chester Harding known from the mezzotint by Charles Turner 1825 (Alfred Whitman, Charles Turner, 1907, 548).

Silhouette by W. Mason at Christie's 27 July 1971 (1), head and shoulders painted in Cambridge 1825, reproduced in Country Life, 4 May 1945, p 771.

Medallic model by Christopher Moore exhibited RA 1825 and SBA 1828 (915); marble bust by
Moore exhibited RA 1826 (1057) and SBA 1827 (854).

1826
Bronze bust by John Hamlett at Ombersley Court, Worcestershire (Rupert Gunnis, Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851, 1953, p 186).

Bust by G. B. Hughes exhibited RA 1826 (1048).

Oil by E. D. Leahy exhibited RA 1826 (298).

1828
Oil by Phillips listed in the Sitter Book (copy of MS in NPG library) under 5 April 1828 as 'lwl' (large whole length); it was exhibited RA 1828 (71) and an enamel copy by James (? Joseph) Lee was engraved by H. Robinson for Jerdan's National Portrait Gallery, 1831, half-length in Tudor costume and Garter chain.

1830
Marble bust by Chantrey in Freemasons' Hall (see NPG 316a(119-20).

1831
Oil by George Jones in the Soane Museum, 'Opening of London Bridge 1831'.

1832
Oil by Haydon at Howick, 'The Reform Banquet 1832' (see Richard Ormond, National Portrait Gallery: Early Victorian Portraits, 1973, pp 200-1). Haydon called on the Duke for a sitting in Kensington Palace: 'It was quite a Picture. There he sat in a little room richly furnished, smoking, with a red Turkish cap like Ali Pasha - his hands covered with rings, his voice loud, royal and asthmatic ...' (Diary, 2 December 1832).

1833
Intaglio by John De Vaux exhibited RA 1833 (1046).

Portrait by John Harris, whole-length seated as Grand Master, known from a curious drawing consisting of a continuous line of writing with a pen; this was lithographed by Gus Rosenthal for A Biographical Sketch of His Late Royal Highness, 1846, see Country Life, 30 June 1950, p 1963.

Oil by Wilkie in the Royal Collection (Buckingham Palace), whole-length in Highland dress signed and dated 1833 (Sir Oliver Millar, The Later Georgian Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, 1969, 1186 and plate 274); drawings for it are in the Royal Library and the Garrick Club; an oil sketch was with Agnew in 1978 and Spink 1979 (colour reproduction in Octagon, XVI, Autumn 1979).

1837
Oil by Wilkie in the Royal Collection (Windsor Castle), 'Queen Victoria Presiding Over Her First Council 1837', the Duke seated wearing skull-cap in foreground (Sir Oliver Millar, The Later Georgian Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, 1969, 1188 and plate 279).

Cabinet statue by J. Francis exhibited RA 1837 (1288).

1838
Black chalk drawing by John Doyle in British Museum (Laurence Binyon, Catalogue of Drawings by British Artists … in the British Museum, II, p 57), whole-length seated in Chinese costume as 'The Broken Hong Merchant'.

'Coronation of Queen Victoria' by Hayter, Leslie and others, see Richard Ormond, National Portrait Gallery: Early Victorian Portraits, 1973, p 481.

Miniature on ivory by Sir William Newton, 'The Homage' with the Duke among others taking his oath of allegiance to Queen Victoria at her Coronation, exhibited RA 1841 (839) and Victorian Exhibition 1892 (423) lent by Mrs Newton.

1840
Oil by John Rand known from the mezzotint by William Walker published July 1840.

'Marriage of Queen Victoria 1840' by Hayter and Newton, see Richard Ormond, National Portrait Gallery: Early Victorian Portraits, 1973, p 482.

Oil by Phillips in the Royal Society, commissioned by them and exhibited RA 1840 (67), three-quarter-length seated in Royal Society chair in black court dress and skull-cap, Ribbon and Star of Garter and Badge of ? Bath, holding a paper; reproduced in colour in N. H. Robinson, Royal Society Catalogue of Portraits, 1980, p 299 and Mollie Gillen, Royal Duke, 1976, p 193. An 1844 copy is in the Reform Club.

1841
'Royal Christening of the Princess Royal 1841' by Leslie and others, see Richard Ormond, National Portrait Gallery: Early Victorian Portraits, 1973, p 4823.

Oil by S. A. Hart painted for the Subscribers to the Jews' Hospital, exhibited RA 1841 (60).

Wash drawing by Samuel Diez in Staatliche Museen, Berlin, three-quarter-length seated in private dress, skull-cap, Star of Garter, signed and dated Kensington Palace August 1841; a lithograph of it by E. Desmaisons was published by Baily 20 August 1841.

1843
Oil by Louis Schmidt exhibited RA 1843 (8).

Posthumous
1843
Drawing by Count D'Orsay from the death mask (NPG 4026(54)).

Marble bust by Behnes in Freemasons' Hall.

Medal by Weigall (NPG 982j).

1846
Statue by E. H. Baily in Freemasons' Hall, whole-length in Garter Robes reproduced in Major Algernon Tudor-Craig's Catalogue, 1838, p 34.

1847
Bronze bust by J. Francis exhibited RA 1847 (1355).

1856
Statue by John Thomas in the Royal Free Hospital, London,whole-length in Garter Robes and skull-cap. A statue by John Thomas is on the façade of the Victoria Tower, Palace of Westminster.

1879-81
Marble busts by W. Theed in Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle.



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.