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Sir Richard Phillips

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Sir Richard Phillips, by James Saxon, 1806 -NPG 944 - © National Portrait Gallery, London

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Regency Portraits Catalogue

Sir Richard Phillips

by James Saxon
1806
29 1/2 in. x 24 1/4 in. (749 mm x 616 mm)
NPG 944

Inscriptionback to top

Signed and dated upper right: R. Phillips 1806/J Saxon pinx.

This portraitback to top

A copy belonged in 1939 to a descendant the Rev. J. Bacon-Phillips of Haywards Heath.

Physical descriptionback to top

Head and shoulders in black coat, white neckcloth and cravat, dark brown hair, grey eyes, stout with florid complexion; plain drab background.

Provenanceback to top

Bequeathed by his daughter Miss Louisa Antonia Phillips 1893.

Exhibitionsback to top

RA 1808 (6); Third Exhibition of National Portraits, South Kensington, 1868 (305) lent by Miss Emily Phillips.

Reproductionsback to top

Stipple by Freeman published Clay & Scriven 10 September 1808.


This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Walker, Regency Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, 1985, 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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