Samuel Phelps

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This was offered with thirteen other drawings by Bryan of various people, most of them apparently connected with the stage; few of the others could be identified, and only the drawings of Phelps and Swinburne (NPG 3016) were purchased. There are, however, several other works by Bryan in the collection, acquired at different times from other sources; he specialized in caricatures of theatrical personalities. Another caricature of Phelps by him (in character) was published as a woodcut in an unidentified magazine (cutting in NPG).

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Suckling & Co; H. Arthurton, purchased from him, 1939.


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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