William Vincent
28 of 173 portraits by George Perfect Harding
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© National Portrait Gallery, London
Mid-Georgian Portraits Catalogue
William Vincent
by George Perfect Harding, after William Owen
before 1822, based on a work of 1811
4 7/8 in. x 4 1/4 in. (124 mm x 107 mm)
NPG 2418
Inscriptionback to top
Signed bottom right: G P Harding.fecit; the margin below inscribed: William Vincent D. D./Dean of Westminster.1802./From the original Picture by Wm. Owen Esqr. R.A. in the possession of G. G. Vincent.
This portraitback to top
NPG 2418 was made expressly for the engraving by J. Stow published on 31 December 1822,
Physical descriptionback to top
As Dean of Westminster and Dean of the Bath; blue eyes, wearing the collar of the Bath (with the motto of the badge in mirror writing), a blue cassock and black coat; seated in a red chair.
Provenanceback to top
J. B. Nicholls; Sotheby’s, 22 October 1929, lot 128 (part); bought H. Breun for the NPG.
Reproductionsback to top
J. Stow 1822 (for the Deans of Westminster).
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: John Ingamells, National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian Portraits 1760-1790, National Portrait Gallery, 2004, 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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