Thomas Haynes Bayly

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Inscribed in pencil lower right: Thomas Haynes Bayley [sic]

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The drawing was bought with the vendor's attribution to Lawrence by whom no portrait of Bayly is recorded. The attribution to F. R. Say is based on Thomson's engraving.

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Half-length seated, the face in red chalk, collar and tie in black, arms and hands lightly drawn in pencil.

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Bought from Walter Bennett 1933.

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Stipple vignette by Thomson 'from an Original Drawing by F. Say' in New Monthly Magazine, 1 June 1831.


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.

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