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Simon Jacques Rochard

1788 - 1872

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

Biographical notes

French miniature painter.

Slavery connections

No known connections with slavery.

Abolition connections

No known connections with abolitionist.

National Gallery painting connections

Former owner: NG purchased in 1845: NG195.

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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Paintings previously owned by Simon Jacques Rochard

A Man with a Skull
A Man with a Skull
Michiel Coxcie
This seemingly straightforward portrait was one of the National Gallery’s most controversial purchases of the nineteenth century. Bought in 1845 as ‘the Gallery’s first Holbein’, its authenticity was quickly cast into doubt. Recent dendrochronological analysis of the panel – a method of determini...
Not on display