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Sir William Jackson Hooker

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Sir William Jackson Hooker, by Thomas Woolner, 1866 -NPG 1032 - © National Portrait Gallery, London

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Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Sir William Jackson Hooker

by Thomas Woolner
1866
12 3/4 in. x 10 5/8 in. (324 mm x 270 mm) oval
NPG 1032

Inscriptionback to top

Incised (on the reverse): WEDGWOOD

This portraitback to top

This is identical to the medallion in the centre of Hooker's monument at Kew Church, listed by A. Woolner, Thomas Woolner: his Life in Letters (1917), p 339; another version is in the Victoria and Albert Museum. The NPG medallion was acquired by the donor from the artist while he was at work on the monument. The sitter's son, Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, thought it 'an excellent likeness, the best ever executed of him' (quoted in a letter of 3 February 1896 from the donor, NPG archives).

Provenanceback to top

F. T. Palgrave, presented by him, 1896.


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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