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John Gibson Lockhart NPG D16137

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by George Thomas Doo, published by John Samuel Murray, after Henry William Pickersgill

Literary journalist; a brilliant advocate of the tory point of view he contributed to Blackwood's Magazine in Edinburgh and later settled in London as editor of the Quarterly Magazine, 1825; best known for his biography of Sir Walter Scott, his father-in-law.; it is considered one of the most important works in the history of biography. Much of Lockhart's seven-volume work was based on his own intimate relationship with his subject, also his father-in-law. The biography was attacked by contemporaries for exposing Scott's faults, but... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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