John Henry Foley
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© National Portrait Gallery, London
Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue
John Henry Foley
by Charles Bell Birch
circa 1876
10 1/2 in. (267 mm) diameter
NPG 1541
Inscriptionback to top
Inscribed on the rim: J. H. FOLEY R.A. and below the shoulders: C. B. BIRCH SC.
This portraitback to top
A wax relief by Birch, apparently a study for this medallion (6½ x 5 inches, 16.5 x 12.7 cm), is in the Irish NPG, Dublin.
Exhibitionsback to top
RA, 1876 (1373); Irish Exhibition, London, 1888 (1076a).
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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