Edward Dayes

Edward Dayes, by Edward Dayes, 1801 -NPG 2091 - © National Portrait Gallery, London

© National Portrait Gallery, London

Regency Portraits Catalogue

Edward Dayes

by Edward Dayes
1801
24 in. x 20 in. (610 mm x 508 mm)
NPG 2091

Inscriptionback to top

Inscribed on back of relined canvas: Edward Dayes/Pictor Fecit 1801/Aetat 38.

This portraitback to top

No other authenticated portrait of Dayes is recorded in the NPG archive.

Physical descriptionback to top

Head and shoulders to right in dark green coat, white neckcloth and shirt-frill; brown hair and side-whiskers, brown eyes, fresh complexion; plain greenish-brown background.

Provenanceback to top

J. W. Townroe 1868; bought from Harold Davis 1925.

Exhibitionsback to top

Third Exhibition of National Portraits, South Kensington, 1868 (85) lent by J. W. Townroe.

Reproductionsback to top

Stipple by W. Holl, Mr Edward Dayes, late Draughtsman H.R.H. the DUKE of YORK/Pub 1805 for Mrs Dayes, 42 Devonshire Street, Queen Square, as frontispiece to Edward Dayes, Works (quarto 1805).


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.