Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue
Sir John Gardner Wilkinson (1797-1875), Explorer and Egyptologist
- Gallery portraits
- All known portraits
- Biography and References
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.
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.