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Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay

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Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay, by Carlo Marochetti, 1848 -NPG 257 - © National Portrait Gallery, London

© National Portrait Gallery, London

Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay

by Carlo Marochetti
1848
9 5/8 in. (245 mm) diameter
NPG 257

Inscriptionback to top

Incised (below shoulder): C. M. 1848 and (right hand side): T. B. Macaulay

This portraitback to top

A similar bronze medallion was exhibited VE, 1892 (1070), lent by Viscountess Knutsford, reproduced the Bookman, XLVII (October 1914), II; another is in the collection of the National Liberal Club; a third is in the Scottish NPG; and a fourth is at Wallington (National Trust), Northumberland, possibly the Knutsford one.

Referenceback to top

Macaulay
Lord Macaulay, History of England, edited C. H. Firth (1913), I.

Provenanceback to top

Purchased at the Marochetti Sale, Christie's, 7 May 1868 (lot 98).

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Lord Macaulay, History of England, edited C. H. Firth (1913), XI.


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.