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John Allen

by After Sir Edwin Landseer

Date: 1835-43

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Item details

  • Acquisition

    Gift of Colonel C. R. Fox, 1843

  • Accession number

    DPG447

  • Artist

    After Sir Edwin Landseer

  • Date

    1835-43

  • Dimensions

    45.7 x 60.9 cm

  • Materials

    Oil on canvas

Lost. John Allen (1771-1843): historian; trained as a surgeon in Edinburgh; accompanied Lord Holland to Spain, 1802-5 and 1808; became an inmate of Holland House, where he managed to remain whilst Warden of Dulwich College 1811-20 and Master from 1820. DPG447 is a copy of Landseer's original which was commissioned by the 1st Lord Holland as a birthday present for his wife in 1836 and presented by their son's widow to the National Portrait Gallery in 1873.

John Allen

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