Alfred, Lord Tennyson
14 of 97 portraits of Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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© National Portrait Gallery, London
Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
by Francis John Williamson
1893
35 in. (889 mm) high
NPG 1178
Inscriptionback to top
Incised below the shoulders: TENNYSON and on the back of the socle: F. J. WILLIAMSON SC/ESHER. 1893.
This portraitback to top
This is related to the original marble bust of Tennyson by Williamson of 1893 in the Guildhall Art Gallery, exhibited RA, 1894 (1778), reproduced Cassell's Royal Academy Pictures (1894), p 30, of which there is a replica at Windsor Castle. Another plaster cast is in the Usher Art Gallery, Lincoln.
Provenanceback to top
Presented by the artist, 1898.
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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