Thomas Landseer

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Signed (bottom right): C. L. ARA
Inscribed below the signature: X/FS (the significance of this is not clear).

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According to Ernest Leggatt and Algernon Graves, who had both known the sitter, this was an excellent portrait of him (letter of 17 March 1898 from the vendors, NPG archives).

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Leggatt Brothers, purchased from them, 1898.


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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