Oliver Cromwell

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An identical bronze in the Museum of London [1] is signed and dated by Pearce 1672; a marble version belongs to the Earl of Wemyss (Gosford House). [2] Bronze and marble versions belonged to Lord Elcho in 1877. [3]

Footnotesback to top

1) See R. L. Poole, Wal. Soc., XI, 1923, pp 38-39.
2) Exh. ‘A Loan Exhibition of of the Principal Contemporary Portraits of Oliver Cromwell’, NPG, 1958, no.40.
3) Sir George Scharf’s Trustees’ sketch books 23:15.

Referenceback to top

Piper 1958
D. Piper, ‘The contemporary Portraits of Oliver Cromwell’, Wal. Soc., XXIV, 1958, no.13.

Piper 1963
D. Piper, Catalogue of the Seventeenth Century Portraits in the National Portrait Gallery 1625-1714, 1963, pp 96-97.

Provenanceback to top

Dr Jordan, Bedford Square, London; his sale, Foster’s, 20 April 1876(54); Henry Graves, from whom purchased 1877.

Exhibitionsback to top

Thomas Carlyle, NPG, 1981-2, no.61; Heroes and Villains, Sheffield, 2005.


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