Solomon Alexander Hart

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Dated (lower right): March 1853.

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Previously this drawing was tentatively identified as a portrait of Sir Charles Eastlake, but the two drawings by Birch which indubitably represent him (NPG 2477, 2478) are quite dissimilar. NPG 2479 almost certainly represents Hart. There is a drawing of the figure of a young man on the reverse.

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The artist, presented by his nephew, George von Pirch, 1930.


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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