Regency Portraits Catalogue
John Wilson (1785-1854), Essayist and journalist; used the pseudonym 'Christopher North'
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'Christopher North', essayist, author of Noctes Ambrosianae, and Professor of Moral Philosophy, Edinburgh.
'A sixteen-stoner - a cocker, a racer, a six-bottler, a twenty-four tumblerer - an out and outer - a true upright, knocking-down, poetical, prosaic, moral, professional, hard-drinking, fierce-eating, good-looking honourable and straight-forward Tory' (William Maginn).
'A sixteen-stoner - a cocker, a racer, a six-bottler, a twenty-four tumblerer - an out and outer - a true upright, knocking-down, poetical, prosaic, moral, professional, hard-drinking, fierce-eating, good-looking honourable and straight-forward Tory' (William Maginn).
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Calotypes by D. O. Hill and R. Adamson … selected from his Collection by Andrew Elliot, Edinburgh, 1928, copy in NPG.Ford & Strong 1976
Colin Ford & Roy Strong, An Early Victorian Album, New York, 1976.
Gordon 1862
Mary Gordon (his daughter), Christopher North: a Memoir, 2 vols., 1862.
Stevenson 1981
Sara Stevenson, David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, Scottish NPG, 1981.
Swann 1934
Elsie Swann, Christopher North, 1934.
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.