James Rennell

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When presenting this bust James Rodd wrote, disarmingly, that he did not think it was ‘of great merit’, but it was interesting ‘as a good likeness of a remarkable man’; he had been unable to trace the authorship [1] (letter of 26 April 1892).

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1) Letter of 26 April 1892; NPG archive.

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By descent to the sitter’s grandson, James Rennell Rodd (1858-1941),¹ by whom presented 1892.

¹ KCMG 1899, created Baron Rennell 1933.


This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: John Ingamells, National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian Portraits 1760-1790, National Portrait Gallery, 2004, 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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