Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope

Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope, by Frederick Richard Thomas, circa 1894 -NPG 955 - © National Portrait Gallery, London

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Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope

by Frederick Richard Thomas
circa 1894
10 1/4 in. (260 mm) diameter
NPG 955

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This is a reduced cast of the stone medallion on the exterior of the NPG building; the original full-scale plaster model for this was in the NPG, reproduced Magazine of Art (1895), p 431. In connection with the large medallion, the sitter's son, the 6th Earl Stanhope, wrote to George Scharf (letter of 12 March 1894, NPG archives):

'I am sorry to find that I have no large sized Photographs of my Father here, though there are a few at Chevening. If you will therefore kindly send me a Postcard of Mr Thomas' Junr. direction, I will send him a Photograph, on the first opportunity ... I should be glad to have a good medallion of my Father at the New Nat. Portrait Gallery.'

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Sir George Scharf, presented by him, 1894.


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.

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