Samuel Wilberforce

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This water-colour shows Wilberforce preaching, presumably in the cathedral at Christ Church.

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Blue eyes and dark hair; dressed in black and white clerical robes, with a blue ribbon round his neck supporting his episcopal medal; pulpit red and brown; greyish wash background.

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Peter Eaton; Theodore Hoffman, purchased from him, 1967.


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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