John Bird Sumner
10 of 22 portraits by George Gammon Adams
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© National Portrait Gallery, London
Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue
John Bird Sumner
by George Gammon Adams
1863
17 3/4 in. (451 mm) high
NPG 1207
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Presumably related to the posthumous marble bust of Sumner exhibited RA, 1864 (1057). Several other plaster casts by Adams and a marble bust of Sir William Napier (NPG 1197) were purchased from Mrs Adams.
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The artist, purchased from his widow, 1899.
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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