Oliver Goldsmith

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Inscribed verso in pencil: Original drawing/by O. Humphrey.<sup>1

1</sup> The original backboard had a label: Portrait of Oliver Goldsmith/From the life/By/Ozias Humphrey his/friend

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Acquired as a silhouette by Ozias Humphry, but it is hardly good enough to be by him; the identification of Goldsmith may be correct.

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Williamson 1918
G. C. Williamson, Ozias Humphry, p 243, ascribed to Humphry.

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Sir Theodore Martin KCB, by whom presented 1883.

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Samuel Johnson, Londoner, Royal Exchange, London, 1964.


This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: John Ingamells, National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian Portraits 1760-1790, National Portrait Gallery, 2004, 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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