John Liston

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Inscribed in faded brown ink: Mr Liston in his own Character

This portraitback to top

The drawing is a copy (or perhaps the original) with slight variations of a cut-out silhouette by Edouart dated September 1826 in the NPG Reference Collection (see Desmond Coke, The Art of the Silhouette, 1913, pp 108, 122 and plate XIX). Edouart at this date was working in Bath and Cheltenham and Liston at the height of his career as 'Paul Pry' at the Haymarket Theatre.

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Whole-length standing in profile to left, top-hat, frock-coat, taking snuff.

Provenanceback to top

Bought from Jack Isaacs, Bristol University, 1941.


This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Walker, Regency Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, 1985, 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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