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James Hook

17 of 78 portraits by Lemuel Francis Abbott

James Hook, by Lemuel Francis Abbott, circa 1800 -NPG 2519 - © National Portrait Gallery, London

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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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