Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville
34 of 267 portraits by Alfred, Count D'Orsay
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© National Portrait Gallery, London
Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue
Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville
by Alfred, Count D'Orsay
1840
11 in. x 8 1/8 in. (279 mm x 206 mm)
NPG 3773
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Signed and dated in pencil (lower left): A. d'Orsay/fecit/24 Mai 1840.
Autograph signature of sitter in ink (lower centre): C. Greville
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This drawing is one of over fifty profile portraits by D'Orsay in the NPG. It was lithographed by R. J. Lane, published J. Mitchell (example in NPG); the lithograph is mentioned in Lane's 'Account Books' (NPG archives), II, 40, as being completed on 9 July 1840.
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Gore House Sale, Phillips, 7-26 May 1849 (lot 1263), bought in; purchased by Sir Thomas Phillips, through T. & W. Boone of New Bond Street, under-bidders at the sale; Phillipps Sale, Sotheby’s, 13 February 1950 (lots 215 and 216).
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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