Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde

Inscriptionback to top

Incised on the back of the shoulders: Geo. G. Adams S^c 1855

This portraitback to top

Probably related to the bust of Clyde by Adams, exhibited RA, 1856 (1348). A later plaster bust of Clyde by Adams, dated 1861, is in the Scottish NPG. The NPG bust was purchased at the same time as a number of other plaster casts by Adams, and a marble bust of Sir William Napier (NPG 1197). Clyde is wearing the star of the Bath.

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Gunnis 1953
R. Gunnis, Dictionary of British Sculptors (1953), p 14.

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The artist, purchased from his widow, 1899.


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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