James Stark

1 portrait of James Stark

James Stark, by Horatio Beevor Love, 1830 -NPG 1562 - © National Portrait Gallery, London

© National Portrait Gallery, London

Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

James Stark

by Horatio Beevor Love
1830
10 1/2 in. x 8 1/4 in. (267 mm x 210 mm)
NPG 1562

Inscriptionback to top

Signed and dated (lower right): H B Love Jany/1830
Inscribed on a label, formerly on the back of the picture: James Stark/by/H B Love

This portraitback to top

Inscribed in pencil at the top of the rolled sheet of paper which Stark is holding, 'Scenery of the/Yare & Waveney' (both rivers in Norfolk). This is presumably a reference to the Scenery of the Rivers of Norfolk, engraved from Stark's pictures by Edward Goodall, William Miller and others, with a text by J. W. Robberds (1827-34). A portrait of Stark's friend, J. C. Cotman, by Love is also in the NPG (1372).

Physical descriptionback to top

Fresh complexion, brown eyes and hair. Dressed in a white shirt, black stock and jacket.

Provenanceback to top

The sitter; by descent to his daughter-in-law, Mrs R. Isabella Stark, and purchased from her, 1910.

Reproductionsback to top

Art Journal (1850), p 182, as an anonymous woodcut (head only).


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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