Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue
George Thompson (1804-1878), Slavery abolitionist
- Gallery portraits
- All known portraits
- Biography and References
Orator and organizer of the anti-slavery movement; involved in anti-slavery agitation in America; escaped to England, 1835; MP, 1847-52; involved in reform movement and Anti-Corn Law League.
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.
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.