Artist

William Drummond

William Drummond is a British Romanticism artist. 2 works are cataloged here, principally at British Museum.

William Drummond painted portraits of early British museum leaders in the 1830s. His 1837 oil portrait shows Sir Frederic Madden, a manuscript curator, wearing the robes of his post. Drummond also made printed images for H Beard’s collection the next year. These works sit in the plain, exact style of their time. Tap into the H Beard Print Collection to see more small-scale portraits and prints from this corner of British art history.

Works by William Drummond

Collections represented

British Museum

Museum

British Museum

The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is the largest in the…

Victoria and Albert Museum

Museum

Victoria and Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum in the United Kingdom is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects.

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