Jeremy Bentham, by Henry William Pickersgill
Pickersgill’s portrait of Jeremy Bentham, exhibited in 1829 and held by the National Portrait Gallery (NPG 413).
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Artist, sitter, holding institution and exhibition date checked against NPG 413.
- National Portrait Gallery — NPG 413
Names Henry William Pickersgill and Jeremy Bentham and dates the portrait as exhibited in 1829.
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- Creator
- Henry William Pickersgill
- Created
- c. 1829
- Medium
- painting
- Held by
- National Portrait Gallery, London
- Rights
- unknownJeremy Bentham, by Henry William Pickersgill, c. 1829. National Portrait Gallery, London.Reuse permission has not been established for this image.
- Reuse notes
- The historical painting and its modern reproduction have different provenance questions. The museum displays a copyright credit; the exact source and terms of this copy were not established.
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Used in the essay alongside Bentham's charge that English law was not wrong so much as unknowable, and his coinage of codification for the activity he wanted undertaken.
Linked to Jeremy Bentham through depicts, so the
portrait is reachable from the person and the person from the portrait.
In the essays
- For the Love of Law
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People
- Jeremy Bentham
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