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George Barrington
Biography
George Barrington (1755-1804) was the best-known 'gentleman thief' of late eighteenth-century London.
3 portraits in the collection
George Barrington, 1820
John Chapman
Portrait, engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010
Celebrity cutpurse
Magazine article by Dr Grace Blakeley-Carroll, 2010
Grace Carroll discusses the portrait of the late-eighteenth century gentleman pickpocket George Barrington.
The Memoirs of George Barrington, 1790
an unknown artist, J Bird & Simmonds
Portrait, octavo in fours, with an engraved frontispiece
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Ross A Field 2008
![David Brown Dignam [and] George Barrington drawn from the life](/files/e/c/b/a/i12671-sl.jpg "David Brown Dignam [and] George Barrington drawn from the life")
![David Brown Dignam [and] George Barrington drawn from the life](/files/e/c/b/a/i12671-ths.jpg "David Brown Dignam [and] George Barrington drawn from the life")
David Brown Dignam [and] George Barrington drawn from the life, 1777
an unknown artist, The London Magazine
Portrait, copperplate engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016
'The Australian Cricketers' from The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News June 1882, page 2
Unknown artist Publisher Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News
Image
'The Australian Cricketers' from The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News June 1882, 1882
an unknown artist, Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News
Portrait, engravings on paper
Purchased 2009
The Australasian Federal Convention at Sydney, 1884
The Graphic
Portrait, wood engraving on paper
Purchased 2015
George Judah Cohen, 1925
George Lambert
Portrait, oil on canvas
Gift of the National Australia Bank 2002
George Gittoes - last sitting before Peshawar, 2007
George Fetting
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2008
George Lambert
'Self Portrait with Gladioli'
Portrait story
An examination of the life and times of George Lambert through the gesture and pose in his self portrait.
Sir George Coles KT CBE
Biography
Sir George Coles CBE (1885–1977) was the founder of the retail concern GJ Coles and Coy.
1 portrait in the collection
George Moore
Biography
George Moore (1923-2008), champion jockey, was born in Mackay, Qld and was apprenticed in Brisbane in 1938.
1 portrait in the collection
George Nicholas CBE
Biography
George Nicholas CBE (1884-1960), pharmacist and philanthropist, grew up in South Australia and Victoria.
1 portrait in the collection
George Dance
Biography
George Dance the Younger, architect, was a founder member of the Royal Academy in 1768.
4 portraits in the collection
George Barrable
Biography
George Hamilton Barrable was a painter of portraits and landscapes, active in London in the 1870s and 1880s, who exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy..
1 portrait in the collection