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Thomas Wilde, 1st Baron Truro, by Thomas Youngman Gooderson; Sir Francis Grant, 1850-1877, based on a work of 1850 -NPG 483 - © National Portrait Gallery, London

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Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Thomas Wilde, 1st Baron Truro

by Thomas Youngman Gooderson, after Sir Francis Grant
1850-1877, based on a work of 1850
56 1/4 in. x 44 in. (1430 mm x 1117 mm)
NPG 483

Inscriptionback to top

Signed (bottom left): T. Y. Gooderson/After F. Grant R.A.

This portraitback to top

This is a copy of the original painting by Grant at St Paul's School, listed in the artist's 'Sitters Book' (copy of original MS, NPG archives), under 1850, exhibited RA, 1851 (421), SKM, 1868 (473) and VE, 1892 (92), engraved by G. Zobel, published J. Mitchell, 1851 (example in NPG). Another copy by Gooderson is in the House of Lords, and an anonymous copy was in the collection of C. R. Schonmeyr, 1961. The NPG portrait was one of several presented by the same society in 1877. It represents Truro in the year in which he became lord chancellor, with the lord chancellor's mace and seal bag on the table behind (he is not, however, dressed in his robes of office).

Physical descriptionback to top

Close inspection of this portrait, which is at present on loan to the Law Courts, was impossible. Truro is dressed in black legal robes, holding a white paper inscribed 'A Bill'. Table at right with mace and seal bag. Grey pilaster behind at right. A brown curtain covers most of the rest of the background.

Provenanceback to top

Presented by the Hon Society of Judges and Serjeants-at-Law, 1877.


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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