Lord Brougham

Lord Brougham is shown in profile, facing to the left, wearing classical style drapery.

Brougham was a British statesman who became Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom.

During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, low relief portraits in wax became popular in Britain and they were often exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Society of Artists and elsewhere. Waxes were used in a similar way to prints and medals, in order to disseminate the image of the sitter, or, like miniature paintings or silhouettes as portable mementoes.