Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue
James Parke, 1st Baron Wensleydale (1782-1868), Judge
- Gallery portraits
- All known portraits
- Biography and References
Judge; barrister, 1813; raised to the king's bench and knighted, 1828; transferred to court of exchequer 1834; raised to peerage, 1856; resigned over Procedure Acts, 1855, but continued actively as privy councillor and in the Lords.
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.