(Signed) G. DYSON."
[99] Through the courtesy of Professor Charles J. Holmes, the present Director of the National Portrait Gallery, I am able to print herewith the N.P.G. references to this portrait.
National Portrait Gallery Tablet on picture:—
Charlotte Brontë
(Mrs. Arthur Bell Nicholls).
1816-1855.
Novelist. Author of Jane Eyre and other works.
Painted in 1850 by "Paul Héger."
Purchased, July 1906.
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National Portrait Gallery Catalogue:—
Painted in water-colours in 1850, and stated to be by "Paul" (or Constantin) Héger, after an earlier portrait by her brother Branwell Brontë.
National Portrait Gallery Illustrated Catalogue:—
Water-colour drawing stated to be by "Paul" (or Constantin) Héger, after Branwell Brontë.
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