Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) (1787-1874), Writer, Poet and Lawyer

Poet; practised as a solicitor in London; intimate with Leigh Hunt, Charles Lamb and Charles Dickens; barrister, and a metropolitan commissioner in lunacy; published plays, poems, songs and other works, several under the pseudonym, Barry Cornwall.


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.