John Gibson

Inscriptionback to top

Signed and dated (bottom left): Margaret Carpenter./1857.

This portraitback to top

Mrs Carpenter lists the portrait under the year 1866, but this clearly refers to its date of sale, as the price entered in the 'Sitters Book', £29-8, is identical with the price paid by the NPG at Christie's.

Referenceback to top

Carpenter
Mrs Carpenter, 'Sitters Book' (copy of original MS, NPG archives), p 46.

Scharf
G. Scharf, Sir George Scharf's Trustees' Sketch Books (NPG archives), XI, 40.

Physical descriptionback to top

Brown eyes, brown hair, greyish beard. Dressed in a grey stock, white shirt and grey suit, holding a wooden modelling tool. Seated in wooden armchair with reddish brown covers. Background colour light brown.

Exhibitionsback to top

RA, 1857 (537).


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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