Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Bt

1 portrait of Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Bt

Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Bt, by Unknown artist,  -NPG 4148 - © National Portrait Gallery, London

© National Portrait Gallery, London

Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Bt

by Unknown artist
4 in. x 3 1/2 in. (102 mm x 89 mm) oval
NPG 4148

Inscriptionback to top

Inscribed on a label on the back of the frame: Sir John Herschell

Referenceback to top

NPG Annual Report, 1960-1 (1961), p 1.

Provenanceback to top

Captain A. Parker Smith, presented by him, 1960.


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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