Richard Ford

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Inscribed on the back of the canvas: Richard Ford

This portraitback to top

The original portrait by Chatelain of 1840 is in the collection of Brinsley Ford, exhibited SKM, 1868 (426), reproduced The Letters of Richard Ford, edited R. E. Prothero (1905), facing p 172. John Murray first published Ford's Handbook to Spain in 1845. It was common for the firm to acquire portraits of their more successful authors.

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Ruddy complexion, brown eyes, dark brown hair. Dressed in green and brown neckerchief, white shirt and dark brown coat with red stripes on the lapels, and wearing a gold (?) cameo ring. Background colour green.

Provenanceback to top

John Murray III; by descent to his son, A. Hallam Murray, and purchased from him, 1920.


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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