Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Bt showing his pictures
5 of 7 portraits by Jemima Blackburn (née Wedderburn)
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© National Portrait Gallery, London
Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue
Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Bt showing his pictures
by Jemima Blackburn (née Wedderburn)
1844
4 3/4 x 5 7/8 in. (119 x 150 mm)
NPG 2772(28a)
Inscriptionback to top
Dated (bottom right): March 9th 1844.
Inscribed below the drawing in ink: Sir Robert Peel shewing his pictures. Whitehall Gardens
Inscribed below this in pencil in another hand: Lord Brougham Maria Clerk Sir George Clerk, Sir Robert Peel, Isabella Clerk J. B James Clerk
This portraitback to top
This drawing forms part of an album, and appears on p 8 above a drawing showing a breakfast party at the house of Samuel Rogers. It is reproduced T. Lever, The Life and Times of Sir Robert Peel (1942), facing p 232.
Physical descriptionback to top
Men and women in black dresses and suits. Red carpet, red and white striped sofa, yellowish wall and gilt picture frames.
Provenanceback to top
The Clerk Family; by descent to Miss Clerk, and presented by her, 1935.
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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