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1.19 John Collier, oil in NPG
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< Back to Introduction Very soon after the delivery of Collier’s portrait of Darwin to the Linnean Society, Darwin’s eldest son William decided to commission a replica to add to the family collection of pictures, which he had inherited. The new…
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- … collection must have weighed with William Darwin, who in his letter to George of December 1895, had …
- … building. William’s action was justified when Henry Wheatley gave the painting a place of honour …
- … 1897, a work which drew greatly on the NPG’s collection; Wheatley thereby situated both Collier and …
- … or ledger, National Portrait Gallery archive, NPG 110348. Letter from Millais to Collier, and …
