William Shield
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© National Portrait Gallery, London
Regency Portraits Catalogue
William Shield
by William Brockedon
1826
15 3/8 in. x 11 3/8 in. (392 mm x 287 mm)
NPG 2515(11)
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The drawing, probably ad vivum, is accompanied in the Brockedon album by a letter from Shield dated 11 December 1827 about a ballot for a club.
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See 'Drawings of Prominent People 1823-49' by W. Brockedon in Richard Ormond, Early Victorian Portraits, 1973, pp 554-6.
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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