John Bright

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Signed (lower right): Hy. F. Inscribed in ink (top right): John Bright

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Another drawing of Bright by Furniss is reproduced in his Some Victorian Men (1924), facing p 18.

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H. Furniss, 'Private Register' (MS extract, NPG archives), no.2682, entered after October 1917 as unpublished.

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Purchased from the artist's sons, through Theodore Cluse, 1947.


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.

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