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Wilkie Collins

Image credit: National Portrait Gallery, London

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On 25 August 1894 George Scharf, the Director of the Gallery, wrote to Millais, who was then a Trustee of the Gallery, to say how sad he was that he had not been able to attend the meeting on the previous Thursday when the Trustees had acquired Millais' portrait of Carlyle. He added that, 'Curiously enough, at the last moment before the meeting, a small portrait of Wilkie Collins attributed also to your pencil, was submitted to the Trustees. It represents Collins with a tremendous forehead, wearing spectacles and the face turned in three-quarters to the spectator's left. His raised hands are joined, palm to palm and fingers very flexible. Do you remember painting such a portrait?' Millais did indeed remember it, particularly the great bump on the sitter's forehead, but was more concerned by the discolouration owing to the 'nasty brown varnish'.

National Portrait Gallery, London

London

Title

Wilkie Collins

Date

1850

Medium

oil on panel

Measurements

H 26.7 x W 17.8 cm

Accession number

967

Acquisition method

Purchased, 1894

Work type

Painting

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