William Makepeace Thackeray
2 of 34 portraits by Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm, 1st Bt
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© National Portrait Gallery, London
Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue
William Makepeace Thackeray
by Elkington & Co, after Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm, 1st Bt, after James Deville
1881, based on a work of 1824-1825
20 in. (508 mm) high
NPG 620a
Provenanceback to top
Commissioned by the NPG trustees, in case of damage to the original.
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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