ABSTRACT
John Stuart Mill's appearance is generally known only from portraits taken very late in his life. The latter is undoubtedly the earlier and almost certainly identical with, or at least derived from, a portrait of Mill done by an artist named Cunningham in Falmouth in April, 1940, when Mill was in his thirty-fourth year. It is mentioned in Caroline Fox's Memories of Old Friends, and referred to as a medallion in an unpublished letter by John Sterling to Mill of the same year. The present whereabouts of the originals of both these portraits are unknown. They were almost certainly in the possession of the late Miss Mary Taylor, the granddaughter of Mrs. J. S. Mill, who died in 1918, but no portrait of Mill described as such can be traced among the effects which were sold after her death.
