Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Historical and Descriptive Catalogue of the Pictures, Busts, &C. In the National Portrait Gallery, St. Martin's Place, W. C: Including Every Portrait Up to the Present Date
We never read of the actions of any distinguished individual without feeling a desire to see a resemblance of his person. We often imagine that we can trace the character of the man in the expression of his countenance: and we retain a more correct recollection of his actions by keeping in our minds a lively impression of his general appearance.
Governors of the British Institution in the preface to the Catalogue of their first exhibition of Historical Portraits, held in Pall Mall, 1820.
In all my poor historical investigations it has been, and always is, one of the most primary wants to procure a bodily likeness of the personage inquired after - a good portrait if such exists failing that, even an indifferent if sincere one.
In short, any representation made by a faithful human creature of that face and figure which he saw with his eyes, and which I can never see with mine, is now valuable to me, and much better than none at all.
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