John Home

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Home here appears slightly older than in the more ambitious kit-cat portrait by Raeburn. The latter is generally identified as that exhibited at the RA in 1792 and is the better-known through engravings. A copy of NPG 320 is in the Scottish NPG (PG 1378).

Physical descriptionback to top

Grey eyes, white hair; wearing a brown suit with brown buttons.

Provenanceback to top

By descent to George Home and his nephew Charles Home, from whom purchased 1871.

Reproductionsback to top

J. G. Mitchell, after 1822 (from an original picture ... in the possession of Geo. Home ...).


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.

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