George Children

George Children, by Archer James Oliver, circa 1806 -NPG 5150 - © National Portrait Gallery, London

© National Portrait Gallery, London

Mid-Georgian Portraits Catalogue

George Children

by Archer James Oliver
circa 1806
30 in. x 25 in. (762 mm x 635 mm)
NPG 5150

This portraitback to top

The dating derives from the inscription on Gauci’s lithograph.

Physical descriptionback to top

Blue-grey eyes, golden-brown hair, wearing dark blue coat with yellow waistcoat and white neckcloth; he sits in a red-upholstered chair.

Provenanceback to top

By descent to John C. Children, by whom presented, 1977.1

1 Scharf saw the portrait in Halsted, Kent, on 23 October 1886, giving just a written description ‘Mr Children a banker painted by A. J. Oliver’ (Sir George Scharf's Trustees' Sketch Books, 33/71).

Reproductionsback to top

Lithograph by A. Gauci (as aged 64).


This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: John Ingamells, National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian Portraits 1760-1790, National Portrait Gallery, 2004, 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.