Portraits

Walter Scott

Portraits

Follow the links below to pages on the major portraits of Sir Walter Scott, on the original artists, and on the engravers and copyists who did so much to stamp the image of Scott on the nineteenth-century mind:

Original Portraits: Pages on the composition of original portraits of Scott with extracts from Scott's correspondence and Journal.

Original Artists: Pages on the artists and sculptors who prepared original portraits of Scott with further samples of their work.

Engravings and Copies: Images of engravings and copies of portraits of Scott held in the Corson Collection.

Engravers and Copyists: Information on engravers and copyists of portraits of Scott, with further samples of their work.

Sir Walter Scott and His Literary Friends at Abbotsford, by Thomas Faed (Corson P.1790)

Click on the thumbnail to see a photograph of 'Sir Walter Scott and His Literary Friends at Abbotsford' by Thomas Faed. It was painted in 1849 working from existing portraits of Scott and his contemporaries.