Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Bt

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Inscribed in pencil (middle left), with a line from Peel's mouth: My son Sir.
Inscribed below: From Cartoon in Punch/A Chip of the Old Block./which M^r. Gladstone thought though a/Caricature conveyed the best impression/of Peel.
Inscribed in ink on the reverse: This M^r. Gladstone considered to be/the best portrait of Peel. A cari-/cature in Punch (copy by S. P. H.).

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Efforts to locate the original published cartoon in Punch have not been successful.

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Presented by the artist's son, Dr H. R. Hall, 1930.


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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