Edward Hughes Ball Hughes

Inscriptionback to top

Signed (lower right): A d'Orsay/fecit and inscribed (bottom centre): Ball Hughes

This portraitback to top

R. J. Lane in his 'Account Books' (NPG archives), III, 6, records doing a lithograph of Hughes, after D'Orsay, for the publisher Mitchell in 1848 (no example located); this may have been a lithograph after the NPG drawing, since no other is recorded.

Provenanceback to top

Gore House Sale, Phillips, 7-26 May 1849 (lot 1263), bought in; purchased by Sir Thomas Phillips, through T. & W. Boone of New Bond Street, under-bidders at the sale; Phillipps Sale, Sotheby’s, 13 February 1950 (lots 215 and 216).


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.

View all known portraits for Alfred, Count D'Orsay