Samuel Lover

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Incised on the back of the shoulders: SAMUEL LOVER, and on the back of the base: E. A. FOLEY. Sculp./LONDON. 1839.

This portraitback to top

This bust was slightly damaged, and its pedestal destroyed, in an accident in 1906. It was on loan to the South Kensington Museum from 1876 till its purchase by the NPG. A bust of Lover's eldest daughter by Foley was exhibited RA, 1835 (1104).

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Scharf
G. Scharf, Sir George Scharf's Trustees' Sketch Books (NPG archives), XXVII, 56 and 69.

Provenanceback to top

The sitter, purchased from the executors of his wife, 1881.

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RA, 1839 (1335).


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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