Francis Haward
1 portrait by Ozias Humphry
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Mid-Georgian Portraits Catalogue
Francis Haward
by Ozias Humphry
1794
22 3/4 in. x 17 3/4 in. (578 mm x 451 mm)
NPG 1233
This portraitback to top
The only surviving portrait of Haward, identified by an early 19th-century label on the stretcher: This/Portrait of Francis Haward. A.R.A./1794. Engraver to H.R.H. the Prince of/Wales etc. Painted by/Ozias Humphry Esq R.A. It is assumed that 1794 refers to the date of the pastel (Humphry’s activity as a pastellist was confined to the years 1791-97).
Physical descriptionback to top
Blue eyes, white powdered hair, wearing a dark brown coat, white neckcloth and a buff waistcoat; a green curtain on the left.
Provenanceback to top
Bequeathed by Charles Drury Edward Fortnum 1899.1
1 Fortnum (1820-99) collector, Trustee of the British Museum and benefactor of the Ashmolean. The (original) frame bears neatly painted in red the letters P.S.EF. which remain unexplained.
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.