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Robert Owen, by Auguste Hervieu, 1829 -NPG 2507 - © National Portrait Gallery, London

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Regency Portraits Catalogue

Robert Owen

by Auguste Hervieu
1829
3 in. x 2 in. (76 mm x 51 mm)
NPG 2507

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Signed and dated lower left: Augt Hervieu/1829, and inscribed in ink along bottom edge: Robert Owen 20 May 1829.
A paper fixed to back of mount is inscribed in ink: W Coningham Esqre/avec les respects de Mr Hervieu/& l'expression de toute sa reconnaissance.

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The drawing was done about a month after Owen's celebrated debate with the Rev Alexander Campbell in Cincinnati. In May he went to Washington and had interviews with the Secretary of State and with President Jackson. Hervieu was in the United States from 1828 to 1831 producing a number of portraits including an oil of Owen, formerly in the Cincinnati Historical Society collection and originally attributed to Alonzo Douglass. NPG 2507, though showing the sitter in a different pose, was doubtless a preliminary study for this portrait.

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William Coningham; Arthur Myers Smith and given by him 1931.


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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