William Godwin
3 of 13 portraits of William Godwin
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© National Portrait Gallery, London
Regency Portraits Catalogue
William Godwin
by Henry William Pickersgill
1830
27 1/2 in. x 24 7/8 in. (699 mm x 632 mm)
NPG 411
Physical descriptionback to top
Head and shoulders in a painted oval, dark coat, white shirt collar; scanty grey hair, hazel eyes, white eyebrows, faintly smiling expression; plain dark brown background.
Provenanceback to top
Bought by the NPG at the artist's sale Christie's 17 July 1875 (331) together with portraits of Jeremy Bentham, Hannah More and George Stephenson.
Exhibitionsback to top
'Georgian Essex', Dagenham, 1958 (316).
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.
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