Henry George Liddell

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Incised on the back of the base: H. RICH^D. PINKER./SCUPT^R. 1888.

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The bust in the RA exhibition of 1898 is described in the catalogue as a marble. Pinker may initially have exhibited a plaster bust in 1888, and only executed the marble in 1898, dating it to the year when the original model was executed; on the other hand, the two RA busts may represent different types. Another version of the NPG bust is in Westminster Abbey, reproduced Country Life, CXXXIX (1966), 778.

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The artist, presented by him, 1920.

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Presumably either RA, 1888 (1960), or RA, 1898 (1867).


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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