Robert Owen

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Inscribed on back in ink: Robert Owen/As he appeared while delivering/his platform lectures./Drawn from life/by Ebenezer Morley/in the year 1834.

This portraitback to top

A letter from Lloyd George in the NPG archive asked for information about the artist Ebenezer Morley but nothing has been found about him either then or since. The portrait was probably worked up at home from an ad vivum pencil sketch made by a talented amateur artist during one of the lectures.

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Half-length facing holding lecture notes, black suit and bow-tie, dark blue cloak; light brown hair, grey eyes, fresh complexion, smiling expression.

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Earl Lloyd-George and bought from his daughter-in-law Viscountess Tenby 1966.


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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