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Henry Farrer

1798 - 1866

This person is the subject of ongoing research. We have started by researching their relationship to the enslavement of people.

Biographical notes

Picture dealer and restorer.

Slavery connections

No known connections with slavery.

Abolition connections

No known connections with abolition.

National Gallery painting connections

Former owner: NG purchased from Henry Farrer in 1846: NG197.

Donor: presented in 1849: NG217 (now at Tate, N00217).

Bibliography

History of Parliament Trust (ed.), The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History, London 1964-, https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/
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C. Matthew et al. (eds), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford 1992-, https://www.oxforddnb.com/
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J. Turner et al. (eds), Grove Art Online, Oxford 1998-, https://www.oxfordartonline.com/groveart/
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UCL Department of History (ed.), Legacies of British Slave-ownership, London 2020, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/
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