George Payne

Inscriptionback to top

Signed (lower right): Ape
Inscribed on the mount which is original: Mr George Payne./September 18 1875.

This portraitback to top

This is one of a large collection of original Vanity Fair cartoons which were owned and specially mounted by the first proprietor of the magazine, Thomas Bowles. The water-colour of Payne was published as a coloured lithograph in Vanity Fair on 18 September 1875, with the title, 'GP'.

Physical descriptionback to top

Healthy complexion, dark brown hair and whiskers with grey streaks. Dressed in a blue and white cross-striped neck-tie, white shirt, black frock-coat, grey trousers, black shoes and top-hat, holding a pair of black binoculars.

Provenanceback to top

Thomas Bowles; Vanity Fair Sale, Christie's, 7 March 1912 (lot 595); purchased at Christie's, 10 February 1970 (lot 5).


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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