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Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

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Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, by Frederick Sargent, 1870s -NPG 1834(cc) - © National Portrait Gallery, London

© National Portrait Gallery, London

Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

by Frederick Sargent
1870s
8 1/2 in. x 5 1/8 in. (216 mm x 130 mm)
NPG 1834(cc)

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Signed (lower left): F Sargent
Inscribed below, possibly an autograph: Shaftesbury

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Presented with thirty-three other drawings of peers by Sargent, presumably studies for one of his many paintings of the House of Lords.

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A. C. R. Carter, presented by him, 1919.


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.