Brian Houghton Hodgson

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The sitter is shown in ordinary civil uniform (with a cloak), as worn by officers of the Indian Political Department.

Physical descriptionback to top

Healthy complexion, greyish eyes, grey hair, moustache and whiskers. Dressed in a dark uniform with gilt buttons, gold-braided collar and cuffs, and a brown cloak with a chain. Background colour dark brown.

Provenanceback to top

The sitter, bequeathed by his widow, 1913.

Reproductionsback to top

Sir W. W. Hunter, Life of Brian Houghton Hodgson (1896), frontispiece.


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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