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William Scott, Baron Stowell

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William Scott, Baron Stowell, by William Behnes, 1824 -NPG 125 - © National Portrait Gallery, London

© National Portrait Gallery, London

Regency Portraits Catalogue

William Scott, Baron Stowell

by William Behnes
1824
29 in. (737 mm) high
NPG 125

Inscriptionback to top

Incised: W. BEHNES/SCULPTOR/LONDON.

This portraitback to top

A version, also dated 1824, was presented by his friends and admirers to the Hon. Society of the Middle Temple but was severely damaged by enemy action in 1941. A copy by Scipio Clint was exhibited RA 1829 (1079).

Physical descriptionback to top

Head and shoulders in Roman toga.

Provenanceback to top

Bought from Messrs E. Hodgson's auction rooms in Chancery Lane, 1861.

Exhibitionsback to top

RA 1824 (1013); on loan to the Royal Courts of Justice since 1965.


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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