Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Sir John Gardner Wilkinson (1797-1875), Explorer and Egyptologist

Explorer and Egyptologist; resided in Egypt, 1821-33, exploring and excavating; completed Survey of Thebes, 1830; his Survey of Egypt, 1835, became a standard work; knighted, 1839; account of his travels in Balkans published 1848; wrote on English antiquities, and aesthetics.


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.