Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Bt

Inscriptionback to top

Incised on the back of the shoulders: Peel and below: M. Noble SC/London/1851

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This bust was discovered in the NPG bust store with no indication of its source or origin. It is a reduced replica of Noble's bust of 1850 in the collection of Earl Peel (see NPG 596); another version of the same size as NPG 596a is also owned by Earl Peel (dated 1850). The tip of the nose in the NPG bust is damaged.

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Unknown.


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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