Edward William Lane
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Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue
Edward William Lane
by Clara Sophia Lane
1850
9 1/4 in. x 7 1/2 in. (235 mm x 191 mm)
NPG 3099
Inscriptionback to top
Signed and dated twice (bottom centre, one signature directly below the other, and identical in form): C. S. L. Hastings - 1850
This portraitback to top
Clara Lane also executed a painting of J. S. Buckingham, another Eastern traveller (NPG 2368).
Physical descriptionback to top
Brown hair and beard. Dressed in a blue patterned dressing-gown. Seated on a sofa covered in blue and white flowered material. Other furniture and books pale brown. Blue and white pot on the bookshelves behind. Background colour bluish-green.
Provenanceback to top
Appleby brothers, purchased from them, 1941.
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.