James Lonsdale

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Incised on the back: E.H.BAILY.R.A./SCULP - 1844.

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Baily exhibited a plaster model RA 1831 (1198) which may possibly be the original though the finished bust looks to be of a man older than 54; it may have been deliberately aged during the process of transference to the posthumous marble in 1844.

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His son J. J. Lonsdale and bequeathed by him 1887.


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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