Richard Henry (or Hengist) Horne

Richard Henry (or Hengist) Horne, by Charles Summers,  -NPG 2682 - © National Portrait Gallery, London

© National Portrait Gallery, London

Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Richard Henry (or Hengist) Horne

by Charles Summers
9 in. (229 mm) diameter
NPG 2682

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Inscribed on the back of an early photograph of this plaque (donor's collection), in Horne's hand, was the following note: 'R. H. Horne/From a Medallion/by Charles Summer [sic]/(in Australia 1867)/now in Rome 1877'. Another cast is at Keats House, Hampstead.

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Presented by Maurice Buxton Forman, 1934.


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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