Hugh Henry Rose, Baron Strathnairn

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This is a sketch for the head of Ford's bronze equestrian statue of Strathnairn at Albert Gate, Knightsbridge, reproduced Magazine of Art (1895), p 439, and Art Journal (1898), p 296. It was purchased with busts of Millais and Huxley by the same sculptor (NPG 1329, 1330).

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Purchased from the artist's son, W. Onslow Ford, 1902.


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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