Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Samuel Wilberforce (1805-1873), Bishop of Oxford and of Winchester; son of William Wilberforce; Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery

Bishop; son of the famous William Wilberforce; rector, 1830-40; dean of Westminster, 1845; bishop of Oxford, 1845-69, and of Winchester, 1869-73; an important and influential church leader.


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.