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Sir Walter Scott, 1st Bt

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Sir Walter Scott, 1st Bt, by Augustin Edouart, 1830-1831 -NPG 1638 - © National Portrait Gallery, London

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Regency Portraits Catalogue

Sir Walter Scott, 1st Bt

by Augustin Edouart
1830-1831
9 1/2 in. x 4 1/2 in. (241 mm x 114 mm)
NPG 1638

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According to Mrs Jackson the silhouette was cut in Edinburgh in 1830, the author comparing the outline to Crombie's similar drawing of 1831 (E. Nevill Jackson, Ancestors in Silhouette, 1921, p 23, and 'The Shadow of Scott' in Connoisseur, XC, 1932, pp 169-71). Two silhouettes of Scott by Edouart, one signed and dated 1831, are in Scottish NPG (Centenary 1932, nos.62 and 67).

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Cut-out silhouette stuck to off-white paper; on the back a whole-length silhouette of the Honble Miss Jane Murray 1837/Leamington 22 November.

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Mrs E. Nevill Jackson and bought from her in 1911 among a collection of 26 Edouart silhouettes now in NPG Reference Collection.


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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