James Hook
17 of 78 portraits by Lemuel Francis Abbott
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© National Portrait Gallery, London
Regency Portraits Catalogue
James Hook
by Lemuel Francis Abbott
circa 1800
30 1/4 in. x 25 1/4 in. (768 mm x 641 mm)
NPG 2519
Physical descriptionback to top
Half-length to left aged about 55, dark brown suit, white waistcoat and shirt-frill; thick white hair (or wig), round tortoiseshell glasses, dark eyes, stout rosy face. Two labels of biographical details on back of top stretcher.
Provenanceback to top
His son by his second marriage [edited: originally '(?) nephew'] Rev. Augustus Alfred Hook, then Dr W. H. Cummings sale Christie's 17 December 1915 (138) bought Freeman; Edward Rimbault Dibdin and given by him 1931. The donor was the great-grandson of another prolific song-writer, Charles Dibdin (1745-1814).
Exhibitionsback to top
Second Exhibition of National Portraits, South Kensington, 1867 (629) lent by the Rev. Augustus Alfred Hook; 'The Norwich Achievement', Castle Museum, Norwich 1955.
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Walker, Regency Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, 1985, 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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