Artist

William Drummond

Sir Frederic Madden (1801–1873), Keeper of Manuscripts (1837–1866)
H Beard Print Collection
Celeste as the Arab boy

William Drummond is a British Romanticism artist. 3 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert 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.

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Works by William Drummond

Collections represented

Catalog records compiled from museum open-access collections; the artworks shown are in the public domain. Spotted an error in this record? Tell us.