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Sir Arthur Paget

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Sir Arthur Paget, by Alfred, Count D'Orsay, 1840 -NPG 4026(43) - © National Portrait Gallery, London

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Regency Portraits Catalogue

Sir Arthur Paget

by Alfred, Count D'Orsay
1840
10 7/8 in. x 8 in. (276 mm x 205 mm)
NPG 4026(43)

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Profile to left wearing Ribbon of Bath, inscribed in pencil: D'Orsay fecit/London -/1840, and untidily in ink: Frederick Byng by Theodore Hook, and neatly along the bottom: Sir Arthur Paget/qui pour plaisanter/ecrivit Frederic Byng by Theodore Hook.

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See 'Drawings of Men about Town 1832-48' by Count D'Orsay in Richard Ormond, National Portrait Gallery: Early Victorian Portraits, 1973, pp 557-60. Paget does not appear among Lane's lithographs of D'Orsay drawings.


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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