Sir Francis Palgrave

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Incised below the shoulders: T. WOOLNER Sc. and below this on the rim: SIR FRANCIS PALGRAVE./1861

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Either this or another cast was exhibited RA, 1861 (996).

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Woolner 1917
Amy Woolner, Thomas Woolner: his Life in Letters (1917), p 8.

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The sitter, presented by his granddaughters, the Misses Palgrave, 1924.


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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