Regency Portraits Catalogue

Henry Thomson (1773-1843), Painter and illustrator

Painter and illustrator, ARA 1801, RA 1804; he succeeded Fuseli as Keeper of the Royal Academy in 1825 but only for two years.


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.