(John) Frederick Denison Maurice

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A crayon study for this portrait was engraved by C. H. Jeens, published Macmillan, 1883 (example in NPG), for J. F. Maurice, Life of F. D. Maurice, I, frontispiece. There is a lithograph by J. H. Lynch, after another crayon drawing by Laurence of c.1850, published 1858 (example in Victoria and Albert Museum).

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Miles
F. Miles, 'Samuel Laurence' (typescript, NPG library).

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Greyish brown hair. Dressed in a white tie, white shirt, and dark suit. Seated in an armchair reading a brown, leather-bound book. Background colour brown.

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Bequeathed by the sitter's widow, 1896.

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RA, 1871 (314).


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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