VOL. LVII.
CATALOGUE OF
OXFORD PORTRAITS
I
THOMAS SACKVILLUS DORSET. COM*.
'MUS ANGLIC THESAURAR. El
HUJUS ACAD. CANCELLAR-
* BODLEjO EQUHlAURAl
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HONORIS CAU5A
No. (>i). Siu THOMAS
Frontispiece
CATALOGUE OF PORTRAITS
IN THE POSSESSION OF
THE UNIVERSITY, COLLEGES,
CITY, AND COUNTY
OF OXFORD
COMPILED BY
MRS. REGINALD LANE POOLE
VOL. I
THE PORTRAITS IN THE UNIVERSITY COLLECTIONS AND
IN THE TOWN AND COUNTY HALLS
OXFORD: AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
FOR THE OXFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY
MDCCCCXII
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PAGE
LIST OF THE COMMITTEE vi
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS vii
INTRODUCTION ix
NOTES ON THE ARRANGEMENT OF THE CATALOGUE . XXxii
I. PORTRAITS IN THE PRECINCT OF THE SCHOOLS :
1. IN THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY AND GALLERY. . 1
2. IN THE CONVOCATION HOUSE . . . .131
3. IN THE SHELDONIAN THEATRE . . . . . 132
4. IN THE CLARENDON BUILDING . . . .135
II. PORTRAITS IN THE EXAMINATION SCHOOLS . . .137
1. STATE PORTRAITS 138
2. PORTRAITS FORMERLY IN THE OLD Music SCHOOL 151
III. PORTRAITS IN THE ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM . . .166
LIST OF CHANTREY MODELS 207
IV. PORTRAITS IN THE TAYLOR INSTITUTION
V. PORTRAITS IN THE LIBRARY OF THE BOTANIC GARDEN 222
VI. PORTRAITS BELONGING TO THE RADCLIFFE TRUSTEES :
1. IN THE RADCLIFFE CAMERA . . . 225
2. IN THE RADCLIFFE OBSERVATORY . . . 227
3. IN THE RADCLIFFE INFIRMARY .... 228
VII. PORTRAITS IN THE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM , . . 231
VIII. PORTRAITS IN THE INDIAN INSTITUTE . 240
IX. PORTRAITS IN THE TOWN HALL ..... 244
X. PORTRAITS IN THE COUNTY HALL . . 257
INDEX OF PORTRAITS ....... 261
INDEX OF ARTISTS . . . . >, . . . 271
INDEX OF DONORS . 275
MEMBERS OF THE OXFORD PORTRAIT
COMMITTEE
DR. MAGRATH, PROVOST OF QUEEN'S COLLEGE (Chairman).
DR. SHADWELL, PROVOST OP ORIEL COLLEGE.
DR. WARREN, PRESIDENT OP MAGDALEN COLLEGE.
DR. H. G. WOODS, MASTER OF THE TEMPLE.
MR. G. E. BAKER (Hon. Treasurer).
MR. C. F. BELL, F.S.A.
PROFESSOR SIR A. H. CHURCH, F.R.S.
MR. LIONEL GUST, M.V.O., F.S.A.
PROFESSOR C. H. FIRTH, F.S.A.
MR. T. W. JACKSON.
PROFESSOR J. L. MYRES, F.S.A.
PROFESSOR ODLING, F.R.S.
THE REV. W. WARNER.
MRS. R. L. POOLE (Hon. Secretary).
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
NO.
PLATE
69.
Sir Thomas Bodley ....
Frontispiece
38.
Lord Burghley
,
1
46.
Unknown Lady of the Sixteenth Century
.
2
53.
King Philip II of Spain
.
2
58.
George Clifford Earl of Cumberland
.
2
63.
Joseph Justus Scaliger ....
.
5
66.
Henry Prince of Wales
.
4
74.
Sir Thomas Overbury ....
.
4
76.
Margaret Clifford Countess of Cumberland
2
79.
Sir Henry Savile
Marcus Gheeraerts
3
85.
Paolo Sarpi
.
5
88.
Thomas James
.'/ Gilbert Jackson
8
90.
William Herbert Earl of Pembroke
H. Le Sueur
6
99.
Galileo
5
108.
King Charles I .....
H. Le Sueur
7
114.
Richard Tomlins .....
Marcus Gheeraerts
4
125.
Archbishop Ussher ....
William Fletcher
8
127.
Sir Kenelm Digby ....
.
4
131.
James Shirley .....
-
9
152.
Thomas Lockey
.
8
154.
Samuel Butler
. G. Soest
9
162.
Sir William Dugdale ....
.
10
164.
Hevelius
. Andreas Stech
5
165.
James Butler, First Duke of Ormonde .
. Sir G. Kneller
12
168.
Sir George Mackenzie . . . ' .
. Sir G. Kneller
10
171.
Bishop Thomas Barlow
Sir P. Lely
8
173.
Anthony Wood
— Rose
10
202.
John Taylor .....
John Taylor
10
203.
Josiah Pullen
. R. Byng
11
210.
Dr. Robert South ....
....
11
211.
12
219.
John, Duke of Marlborough
John Michael Rysbrack
12
222.
Sir Godfrey Kneller ....
. Sir G. Kneller
14
223.
Dr. Thomas Bouchier ? . . .
W. Sonmans
15
224.
Sir Christopher Wren ....
. Edward Pierce
13
229.
Dr. Richard Hale ....
. Jonathan Richardson
14
233.
Dean Atterbury
. Sir G. Kneller
16
241.
Edmund Halley
. Thomas Murray
16
246.
Jonathan Swift
. Charles Jervas
16
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NO.
PLATE
253.
Dr. Richard Newton ? .
.
16
259.
Dr. William King
John Michael Williams
16
268.
Bishop Mason ....
Tilly Kettle
17
281.
A. H. Sutherland
John Smart
18
283.
Napoleon I . .
Giuseppe Longhi
18
289.
Edward Ellerker Williams .
.
18
296.
Dean Ireland
. Sir Francis Chantrey
19
309.
Dean Stanley
G. F. Watts
20
319.
Bishop Stubbs
. Sir Hubert von Ilerkomer
21
324.
Dr. W. D. Macray
. Henry S. Tuke
21
361.
Albert Edward, Prince of Wales .
Sir J. Watson Gordon
22
384.
Dr William Croft
23
396.
Sir John Hawkins
. James Roberts
23
398.
Johann Peter Salomon
. Sir William Beechey
23
399.
Sir William Parsons .
. Charles Wilkin
23
404.
Unknown Navigator
.
24
405.
Sir Francis Drake (?) . . • .
.
24
414.
John Tradescant the Elder .
Attributed to Emanuell de Critz
25
416.
Sir John Suckling
Attributed to Cornelius de Neve
25
426.
John Tradescant the Younger
Attributed to William Dobson
26
448.
EliasAshmole
John Riley
27
450.
John Aubrey
William Faithorne
27
464.
James Paine and his Son
. Sir Joshua Reynolds
28
479.
William Behnes
29
481.
Chambers Hall ....
R. C. Lucas
29
487.
Thomas Combe ....
. Sir John E. Millais
30
494.
Sir John Millais ....
. Charles Collins
30
498.
Charles Drury Edward Fortnum .
Jules Jacquemart
31
501.
John Ruskin ....
. D. G. Rossetti
31
506.
William Holman Hunt
. Sir John E. Millais
30
509.
Sir Arthur Evans
Sir W. B. Richmond
32
668.
Sir Robert Taylor
.
33
683.
Dr. Radcliffe ....
34
684.
36
685.
35
687.
Dr. Frewin
. L. F. Roubiliac
35
713.
Benjamin Woodward .
Alexander Munro
29
727.
Sir Henry Acland
Sir J. E. Boehm
36
754.
Philip Herbert ....
Adrien Carpentier
37
762.
Alderman William Fletcher
•
37
INTRODUCTION
THIS Catalogue is the outcome of the labours of a committee
of the Oxford Historical Society, which was constituted in 1901
and had for its two chief objects the production of a complete
catalogue of all the portraits in the possession of the University,
the Colleges, and the City of Oxford, and the public exhibition
of some of the best pictures chosen from the whole number.
The original committee became an independent body, and under
its auspices the second part of the scheme was carried into effect
by the Hon. Secretary, Mr. C. F. Bell, now Keeper of the Depart-
ment of Fine Art in the Ashmolean Museum, and a Trustee of the
National Portrait Gallery. He organized three Exhibitions of 570
portraits in all, arranged chronologically, in the Examination
Schools in the May and June of 1904, 1905, and 1906, and pre-
pared full catalogues containing descriptions of the pictures, much
technical information, and biographical and historical notes.1
These Catalogues 2 have formed the basis and supplied the model
for the present volume, which incorporates the entries relating to
Oxford portraits to be found there, with similar descriptions of
the pictures which were not exhibited. But, except in regard to
little known persons, the biographical notes have now been much
curtailed, and the facts given, sometimes apparently insignificant,
have been chosen with a view to confirming the identity, or helping
to settle the date, of a portrait, or to bring out the connexion of
the subject with Oxford. Busts, miniatures, and such monumental
effigies as appear to have some reasonable claim to be portraits are
now or will be catalogued.
1 The descriptions and technical information throughout are Mr. Bell's, but
in the second and third years the present compiler worked with him and under
his instructions upon the biographical notes.
2 Illustrated editions, to which the references are here made, were published
by the Clarendon Press.
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INTRODUCTION
The upper floor of Sir Thomas Bodley's great Library was
originally intended as a store-house for books when the rest of the
building should be full. It was decorated, partly through Bodley's
bequesjt and partly through the munificence of the University, with
a row of some two hundred and twenty-two heads, painted high
up on the wall close under the ceiling, and grouped together as
philosophers, poets, divines, or physicians, according to the subjects
for which their prototypes were famous. These rude paintings,
which had been renovated in 1714 and 1793, were removed when
the roof of the Gallery was found to be in a decaying state in 1830,
but they may be remembered as having perhaps suggested the
beginning of the University Collection, and as one of the causes
of its growth.
The Library was opened in 1602, and three years later the
first portrait to be housed within its walls was presented by
Thomas, Earl of Dorset, Chancellor of the University, and was put
up where it now stands. The bust of the Founder (No. 69), which
was 'carved to the life by an excellent hand in London'1 and
intended for the ' perpetual memory of him and his bounty to the
public ', has scarcely received the attention it deserves. It is a
good and faithful piece of work, and the only portrait of Sir
Thomas Bodley we possess which was given in his lifetime. It
was not till 1634, twenty years after his death, that the University
acquired the large canvas which displays the best known figure
of him. All the earliest pictures to follow were of persons directly
associated with the Library and the University. In 1636 Arch-
bishop Laud gave, along with his Statutes, the bronze bust of
King Charles (No. 108) which faces the marble head of Bodley
across the entrance to Duke Humphrey's Library. When Thomas
James, the first Library-Keeper, resigned his post in 1620, his
portrait was painted to begin a custom of commemorating the
Librarians among their books which is happily still observed.
As early as 1622 Lady Savile gave the whole length picture,
by Marcus Gheeraerts, of her husband Sir Henry (No. 79), the
1 Wood, The History and Antiquities of the University of Oxford, ed. John
Gutch, 1796, Pt. II, Bk. ii, 925.
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colleague of Bodley in the planning of the Library, and a generous
benefactor to it. These and such as these may be called the
family portraits of the Bodleian. To honour our Chancellors
in the same way was an obviously appropriate purpose, and,
with a single exception, every one from the Restoration to Lord
Derby is represented, and there are a few of earlier date. These
portraits were nearly all gifts, but sent sometimes in answer to
a formal request. A series once started tends to continue. An
interesting group of eight or nine portraits of astronomers followed
upon the picture of Savile, who founded the professorships of
geometry and astronomy. It began with the first holder of the
latter chair, John Bainbridge (No. 100), and in the course of years
came portraits of Flamsteed, Halley, and others. In 1661 a portrait
of Galileo was sent to us direct from Florence by his devoted pupil
and successor Viviani, who had worked with him till his death — the
man of all others who had the best right to make such a gift. It
was, perhaps, one of several replicas. It was usual in the case of
a famous man to repeat a portrait 1 either exactly or with slight
unimportant changes in accessories, and to distribute these copies
in suitable places. Many Bodleian portraits must have this origin.
In some cases the desire to associate the memory of famous men
with the actual studies they promoted led to the division of the
collection. The portrait of Camden was originally hung in the
History School 2 ' over the Pew wherein the Professor reads '. * Eight
of our celebrated doctors' — all copies — were presented together
by Humphrey Bartholomew of University College, and were placed,
with portraits of Dr. Lasher and Dr. Richard Hale, in the Anatomy
School ; and in one old list a few pictures are said to be in the Law
1 Portraits of Sir Thomas White, the founder of St. John's College, are said to
exist in the possession of the Corporations of the fifteen towns he benefited,
besides those in his College and Merchant Taylors' Hall. Several portraits of
Savile, similar to the Bodleian one, are to be found, at Eton and elsewhere. We
know that Sir Henry Wotton provided several of his friends with portraits of
Sarpi, and there are countless other cases of such reduplication.
2 The quadrangular building, now almost wholly absorbed by the Bodleian
Library, was originally only in part used for books. The first and second floors
on three sides were divided into ' the schools ' — rooms where different subjects
of University study were taught.
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School. l The unique collection of portraits of musicians has
remained apart to this day, now housed in the Council Chamber
and the room adjoining it in the Examination Schools, but formerly
in the Music School in the south-east corner of the Old Schools
Quadrangle. Here the Professor of Music lectured, exercises for
the doctor's degree were performed, and weekly concerts of orches-
tral and choral music were given to audiences that must per-
force have been crowded. The series of portraits which decorated
the walls began with that of Dr. William Heather, who not only
founded the Music lecture but also gave to the University a musical
library and a collection of instruments. It seems almost certain that
the pictures of Henry Lawes and Nicholas Lanier must have been
painted and were probably presented before or during the royal
occupation of the city, since one is inscribed with loyal words
and both men were personal servants of Charles I. Another in-
teresting portrait, wfyich was given by the subject, is that of
Dr. John Wilson, the third professor, who, says Wood, excited
'in the University such a love of music as in a great measure
accounts for the flourishing state in which it has long subsisted
there '. It is signed and dated 1655, at which time he was recalled
to Oxford. Before the end of the century Christopher Gibbons,
Matthew Lock, John Kingston, Thomas Blagrave, and William
Child had all followed the example thus set, and had given their
portraits, some no doubt to commemorate their doctorate, others
surely from a desire to be of the company. Some of these pictures
are among the few mentioned by Wood in the Athenae. In the
eighteenth century this custom died out. The only musician's
picture given by the subject was the fine head of Dr. Burney
by Sir Joshua Reynolds, now hung with other works of that master
in the Ashmolean. The rest were presented or bequeathed by
various benefactors ; and no less than thirteen were given by
Dr. Philip Hayes, professor from 1777 to 1797. The collection
as a whole constitutes one of the most precious iconographic
possessions of the University.
But these groups or series only account for a portion of the
1 Bodl. MS., Library Papers : Pictures.
BODLEIAN LIBRARY xiii
Bodleian pictures. There were early specialized collections else-
where, such as the portraits of Judges in the Guildhall in London,
or later of doctors at the Royal College of Physicians. It is the
comprehensive character of the contents of the ' Public Gallery in
the Schools in Oxon ' which makes it notable, and gives it the claim
to rank as the oldest picture gallery in England. In harmony with
the universal range of the great Library adjoining, the Gallery was
open to portraits of men known in any branch of learning — for
any service or activity. Pictures of persons in no way connected
with the University came here, such as Frobisher and Ogilby or
Lady Jane Grey : those of poets and scholars, statesmen and divines
were given or bequeathed or bought. From about the time of the
Restoration the fame of the collection and the honour of being
represented in it must have been well established, and the stream
of accessions flowed in — unbroken, but lamentably poorer as it
reaches our own day.
By far the most munificent donor was Dr. Richard Rawlinson.
To him we owe some forty paintings certainly, and probably at
least ten more. There exists no complete list of his gifts, and a
good many portraits, some unidentified, came with books, relievos,
and other things after his death, in 1757. A great frequenter of
sales, he was nevertheless a frugal buyer. Several of his marked
catalogues are preserved, and are curious equally for what he got,
and for what he allowed to escape him. * He affected small panel
pictures, and evidently bought from an historical rather than an
artistic motive. With regard to persons of his own time, however,
he was eager to secure a good likeness, and was indignant when, as
in the case of the portrait of Flamsteed, he suspected that a copy
was substituted for the original as a donation to the Bodleian.2
Dr. George Clarke, a fellow of All Souls and burgess for the
University, also gave a considerable number of portraits, but no one
1 A few items from MS. Rawl. C 937 and Crynes, 808 may be given : * Erasmus,
Maurice of Orange and two others, 14/6 ' ; * a head by Holbein and 3 others
6/ ' ; ' Hugo Grotius by Corn. Johnson and one other 4/6 ' ; ' a drawing of an
old man in red chalk, a muscovy duck, and the Chevalier de St. George, 8/ '.
See also Nos. 142, 156, 446.
2 See No. 212.
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of great value. Other donors offered a portrait either in the hope
of obtaining an honorary degree or in acknowledgement of one
already bestowed; some because they had enjoyed the hospitality
of the Library as readers, or because they had no natural heirs, or
simply from devotion to Alma Mater.
Modern Curators of the Chest would probably hesitate to spend
so much money on buying pictures and keeping them in order as
did our forefathers. Indeed, we may regret that in the past the
services of ' Mr. Wildgoose ye Painter, for mending and cleaning
ye Pictures in ye Gallery ' were so often resorted to. Some of the
entries of payments are interesting and furnish many dates. In
1622-3 there was paid for a silk curtain for the portrait of
Sir Henry Savile, Knight, sent through Dame Savile, his wife,
£% 18s. lOd. ; and for making the screen for the curtain 3s., and
for fixing the tablet 10s.; in 1635-6: 'To Mr. Edgerlie, the
carrier, for bringing my Lord of Cant, his bookes, coynes, and the
King's Statua, £% 5s. %d. ' ; and after the Restoration, ' for polish-
ing ye rust from ye King's Picture and setting it up again in the
Librarie 12s. 6dS In 1670 : < To Mr. Nurse for a Frame for Scotus
his Picture, and ye carriage of it from London to ye Library,
£2 8s: In 1701-2: 'Paid Sr Godfrey Kneller's man for
varnishing two pictures of the Duke of Ormond £2 3s.' In 1727 :
4 Paid for new lackering Dr. Wallis' Picture £6: In 1776 <£>53
was spent on cleaning and regilding. It seems that the cost of
the carriage and frame of a portrait presented was commonly
borne by the Library authorities, which may indicate that it was
painted expressly for Oxford. Occasionally purchases were made.
It is probable 1 that the University provided the series of portraits
of Founders painted by William Sonmans, and hung up in 1670.
They were engraved, and a set would be bestowed upon distin-
guished foreign visitors.2 In 1694-5 Dr. Hyde, the Librarian,
was paid £W 'for two pictures by order'. In 1706 ^20 was
given ' for a Picture for the Gallery '. The largest of the three
portraits of Selden was bought in 1708 for ^?21 10s., a price
1 I have not found the payment for them in the accounts.
2 Vice-Chancellor's accounts, 1712-13.
BODLEIAN LIBRARY xv
which would command a Lely. The portraits of Dr. Pocock and
Sir George Mackenzie were acquired for ^10 in 1724 from
Dr. Charletfs sale, and £56 4s. with another £1 5s. 6d. for car-
riage was given in 1777 for the whole-length canvas and frame of
Lord Lichfield. Indeed, Horace Walpole tells that as much as
^400 was once offered by the University for the portrait of Laud
by Van Dyck from the Houghton collection.1 The place of Uni-
versity grants has been taken in our own day by the donations of
bodies of subscribers, to whose public spirit and generosity are due
a large proportion of the recent acquisitions.
The desire to complete a series — to fill a gap — must have a ten-
dency to drag down the artistic standard of a collection. That any-
thing is better than nothing must sometimes have been the idea of
the authorities of the Bodleian, if at any time in the first two hundred
years of its existence they ever contemplated the rejection of any
portrait offered to them. It is not a place to look for treasures by
the greatest masters. A generation ago the seventeenth-century
canvases were attributed to Van Dyck and the small panels to
Holbein, but thanks mainly to one of the present curators,
Mr. T. W. Jackson, all these legends have long since disappeared.
There are no Holbeins and no Van Dycks, not even a first-rate
Lely. But if illustrious names are missing, the Gallery contains
some excellent examples of the work of lesser men, and the
authenticity or at least the pedigree of a large number of portraits
is remarkable. The portrait of Dr. Wallis,2 signed and dated by
Kneller and given to the University by Samuel Pepys, the Diarist,
is in all respects a possession of high value, having delightful
qualities as a picture with personal associations of an unusual kind.
The portrait, also by Kneller, of Lord Crew,2 No. 215, which came
from one of the executors of his will ; that of Sir Hans Sloane 2
by Jonathan Richardson, the large whole length of Archbishop
Potter 2 by Thomas Hudson, the John Locke painted and given by
Gibson are all good pictures and creditable inhabitants of any gallery.
John Riley, with four canvases in the Bodleian and as many in the
1 Correspondence, ed. Mrs. Paget Toynbee, x. 49.
2 Reproduced in the Illustrated Exhibition Catalogues, 1905, 1906.
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Ashmolean, is well represented, and there are paintings of interest
by Jervas,1 Vanderbank, William Gandy1 and Tilly Kettle.1
Among earlier paintings the picture of Lord Burghley on his mule,
the beautiful, perhaps beautified, lady of the Tudor period who was
hidden when first known to Oxford by a modern fancy head of Mary
Queen of Scots, Richard Tomlins, and the two little portraits of
Henry Prince of Wales l are all to be prized for their various merits.
The portrait sculpture reaches perhaps a higher average. When
the Radcliffe 'Camera' was designed Rysbrack was appointed
sculptor to the building,2 and produced a statue of Radcliffe,
a head of the architect, Gibbs, and another bust unfortunately
unnamed. Besides these the University possesses his bust of the
great Duke of Maryborough, and good examples of his work,
such as the posthumous head of Wren at Queen's, are to be found
scattered in the various College Halls and Libraries. Another
bust of Wren — an admirable vivacious portrait by that illusive
artist Edward Pierce — a good bust of Lord North, a cast of Dr.
Burney by Nollekens, and many others, to refer only to older works,
may be remembered.
A collection of portraits gradually gathered together through
nearly four hundred years has, however, an importance quite apart
from that attaching to individual canvases of distinguished artistic
value. Nowhere better than in Oxford portraits can we make
acquaintance with the average type of man properly belonging
to his time and walk in life at any moment during this period.
Here also we can study the character of the craftsmanship brought
to the business of painting by those to whom it was as much
a trade as an art. Perhaps particularly in Oxford, owing to the
seed sown in the days of the residence of the Court of Charles I,
there remained a tradition of artistic interest and activity. The
possession of pictures was evidently a common luxury. The inven-
tories preserved in the Archives of the University, though disap-
pointing as a source of exact information, are witnesses to the quan-
tity of paintings, prints, and sculpture which filled the houses of
1 Reproduced in the Illustrated Exhibition Catalogues, 1905, 1906.
8 Gibbs, Bibliotheca Radcliviana.
BODLEIAN LIBRARY
xyu
4 the better sort ' three hundred years ago. Bishop Hough, Warden
Astley of All Souls, Dr. Charlett of University College, Dr. Bathurst
of Trinity and many more, all left pictures of various kinds.
Dr. Lockey, Librarian from 1660 to 1665, bequeathed to an heir
in London no fewer than 170 pictures and 53 statues, the whole
valued at £652 13*. Sd.1 In many cases a few portraits from these
collections passed in due course into the Bodleian Gallery. But
in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries the local or
wandering painter, often employed upon decorative work as well
as portraits, who earned from £% to £5 by producing a likeness tant
bien que mat, was as readily ignored and forgotten as the maker
of a watch to-day. Evelyn somewhere complains that ' our painters
take no care to transmit to posterity the names of the persons they
represent, through which negligence so many excellent pieces come
after a while to be dispersed amongst brokers or upholsterers'.
When the sitter's identity has too often dropped into oblivion it is
not surprising that painters' names can seldom be recovered.
Nevertheless the indexes which were added by Mr. Bell to the
Oxford Exhibition Catalogues of 1905 and 1906 contain the names
of a certain number of otherwise unknown artists, and a few more
will be found in these pages. Very many canvases, however, remain
to be assigned. Gilbert Jackson, who was employed at both
Universities ; Robert Greenbury, whose name occurs here and there
in College account books, but who was sufficiently familiar to the
Court doctor and connoisseur, Sir Theodore Mayerne, to be
associated by him, ludicrously enough, with Rubens and Van Dyck,2
Fisher, Cornish, the mayor painter John Taylor ; many of these
scarcely recognized craftsmen must have been at work on Oxford
portraits. The soil upon which the famous foreign painters lived
and flourished was capable of producing humble native workers who,
even though overshadowed and dependent, must yet be reckoned
with if our artistic development is to be thoroughly estimate/!.
It is the provenance of a great proportion of the contents of the
Bodleian Gallery which confers upon the collection its highest
1 Inventories preserved with the University Archives.
2 Sloane MS. (Brit. Mus.) 2052, written between 1620 and 1646.
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xviii INTRODUCTION
interest and historic importance. Outside the somewhat miscel-
laneous benefactions of Rawlinson, Clarke, Bartholomew, and Philip
Hayes, donors who bought in order to give, the large majority of
the pictures have come to us with a direct pedigree. The authen-
ticity of the portraits of the Chancellors and Librarians has been
mentioned. Many more were given or bequeathed by their sub-
jects or by their immediate relations, widows or children. Another
large number can be traced to contemporaries in intimate associa-
tion with them, such as fellows of the same College, or the next
following holder of a Chair. Other donors of whom the connexion
with the men whose portraits they presented is not at first so clear,
appear on closer investigation to have been near neighbours in
life, as was the case with the Casaubons and the giver of their por-
traits, or workers in the same field, as Dr. Adee, who gave us the
picture of Dr. Mead. Yet another class of donors — in some ways the
most interesting of all — were painters who offered either their own
portraits or another specimen of their skill likely to be acceptable.1
This remarkable authenticity was recognized by the regular
copying that went on in the Gallery. Sir George Scharf has
preserved a note of 'the estimates for copying pictures by
Wm. Smith of Oxford'2 — a worthy who flourished in the early
years of the nineteenth century. The list is amusing : —
For copy of Bishop Lord Crewe £18 18*. on the spot.
For William the Third and such size £40 without expression.
Bishop Potter whole length £40.
Sir T. Overbury with ruff, &c. £6 6*.
Handel by Hudson £18 18*.
Lord Burghley on the mule as copied for Lord Say and Sele at Broughton £30.
As Mr. Smith's name is not infrequently to be met with on pictures
in Oxford, it is to be presumed that he carried on his industry
elsewhere also, and exchanged the produce of different galleries.
Another testimony to the high repute of the Bodleian collection
must not be passed over. Under the will of Admiral Forbes,
dated 1791, it was given a reversionary interest — in the event of
1 See No. 344.
2 I have been allowed to consult the notebook in the National Portrait
Gallery containing this list.
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the failure of named heirs — in that part of the Clarendon Gallery
once existing at Cornbury, which had passed to his wife. Lady
Mary Forbes, great-granddaughter of the first earl — a share
amounting to thirty-eight pictures.1 To have received this inheri-
tance would have raised the collection to the first rank for portraits,
and the dispersion of the treasure of Van Dycks and Lelys would
have been prevented for ever.
Early in the nineteenth century the Picture Gallery had fallen into
a somewhat dilapidated condition. When Hazlitt visited Oxford
on his journey of inspection of English picture galleries in 1824
the only collection he heard of was General Guise's at Christ Church.
This he describes with a singular lack of perception as ' dingy,
solemn and old . . . where the pictures are either copies or spoiled or
never were good for anything \ Perhaps visitors were not encouraged
in the Bodleian Gallery at that time. In 1830 a conference between
the Vice-Chancellor, the Proctors, and the Curators met to make
' arrangements for continuing the use of the Picture Gallery to the
University for the reception of works of art '. The roof particularly
was found to be in need of thorough repair, and it was agreed,
under the advice of Sir Robert Smirke, to put up an entirely new
ceiling, and to lay a new floor. The work necessitated, no doubt,
a packing away of all the contents that had been allowed to remain
till then, and as a consequence many tablets must at this time have
been lost or confused.2 A considerable number of identifications
have been re-established in recent years by Mr. T. W. Jackson, and
a few more are noted in the present catalogue. It is mainly owing
to Mr. Jackson too that a fund has been raised in the last ten years
to meet the cost of a systematic cleaning and revarnishing of nearly
all the pictures.
The opening of the University Galleries in 1845 led to a certain
amount of shifting, and a good many portraits were rehung there.
Since that time there has been an occasional interchange between
the two institutions, and some donations which before would no
1 Walpole, Anecdotes, ed. 1862, i. 322, n., from Musgrave MSS.
2 An instance is to be found in the tablets wrongly exchanged between the
two portraits of Blackstone.
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doubt have come to the Bodleian have been attracted to the
younger collection. Lady Shelley's gift of Shelley relics with copies
of his portraits in 1903, however, followed the earlier tradition.
It is the most interesting donation which has been made for a
generation, and has been fruitful in bringing others of kindred
associations. Nor must the latest addition be forgotten here. In
1910 an admirable portrait of Dr. W. D. Macray was hung in
the Library in commemoration of his sixty-five years' service to
the Bodleian. It was painted by Mr. H. S. Tuke and given by
Magdalen College.
When the new Examination Schools were finished a general and
comprehensive re-arrangement of the works of art belonging to the
University was contemplated. In 1884 Convocation without a dis-
sentient voice approved a scheme for transferring to the new rooms
' all the Pictures in the Bodleian and the Ashmolean except those
which are specially connected with either institution', subject of
course to the sanction of the Curators and Visitors.1 A Delegacy
was appointed, but with the exception of the contents of the
Music School, which hardly came within the scope of the project
at all, scarcely a picture was moved. It was not till 1910 that
the policy suggested twenty-five years before was in part carried
into effect, and most of what may be described as the State
Portraits of the Bodleian — the Royal Personages, the Chancellors,
Stewards, and Burgesses — were placed in the Examination Schools,
where they are seen to great advantage in the ampler spaces and
amid the lavish decoration of that building.
The highly curious collection of portraits which formed part
of the original Ashmolean Museum and before that of Tradescant's
' Ark ', and which remains the most precious survival from those
sources, came into existence at about the same time as did the
Bodleian Picture Gallery. But, unlike it, the pictures with a
single exception belong to one period of a hundred years, and were
brought together by two or three individuals with whom they may
1 It will be remembered that the Ashmolean Museum was then housed in the
building in Broad Street.
ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM
xxi
all be personally associated. In the middle of the seventeenth
century Tradescant's Museum in Lambeth was in the hands of John,
the second of the name, who had greatly added to the value of the
inheritance he had received from his father. He deserves to be
remembered as perhaps the first man in England to put forward
the idea of a museum as ' an honour to our Nation, and a benefit
to such ingenious persons as would become further enquirers into
the various modes of Natures admirable workes, and the curious
Imitators thereof'.1 In 1652 his only son, also John, died as
a youth of nineteen ; and the parents, deprived of their natural
heir, and probably persuaded by Elias Ashmole, a frequent inmate
of their house, who had assisted in the preparation of a catalogue of
their treasures, settled the 6 Closet of Rarities ' upon him (Dec. 1659).
Speedily repenting of this act, Tradescant made an effort to
recover the control of his property by a will2 (April 4, 1661)
bequeathing the Rarities to his wife, Hester, for her life, with
remainder to one or other of the Universities, whichever she should
choose. John Tradescant dying in 1662, Ashmole immediately
disputed the will, and although no other document was forthcoming,3
Lord Chancellor Clarendon pronounced in favour of the deed of
gift, but also of the life interest of the widow.
As time went on this state of things could scarcely be satisfactory
to Ashmole. He was an unhealthy man, only a few years younger
than Mrs. Tradescant, and he might well fear to see escape him
the fame he meant to win by becoming a benefactor to Oxford,4
the immortality claimed for him on his tomb in Lambeth Church —
sed durante Musaeo Ashmoleano Oxonii nunquam moriturus. In
October, 1674, he took possession of a house adjoining Mrs. Trades-
cant's to watch over his inheritance, and from that time for-
ward the lonely woman was subjected, if not to regular persecution,
at least to the pressure of his strong will. Almost immediately
(Nov. 26) he managed to secure some of the collection. On Dec. 1
1 Musaeum Tradescantianum, preface.
2 Printed in full in Notes and Queries, 1st ser. v. 36T-8.
3 Ibid. 386. These facts were recovered by Dr. Joseph Hamel in 1847.
4 Rawl. MS. D. 912, f. 670. Where in his proposals for endowing the Museum
and Professorship he bargains to be acknowledged a benefactor.
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he notes in his diary, ' I began to remove the rest of the Rarities to
my house at South Lambeth,' to which he had built additional
rooms for the purpose. Hester objected, and complained to the
neighbours. She averred that Ashmole had forced her to give up
her treasures under threat of bodily harm, that he had robbed her
of her Rarities, cheated her of her estate,1 and encroached upon her
land. Among the Rawlinson MSS. is a paper 2 in Ashmole's hand-
writing endorsed 4 Mrs. Tradescant's Submission'. It sets out a de-
claration that these complaints — which are reiterated — are false, and
acknowledges the wrong and injuries done by them to Mr. Ashmole.
It is dated Sept. 1, 1676, and the signature of Ester treduscant is
witnessed by Mr. Justice Dawlinge and seven other persons. This
weight of legal authority used to silence her, no less than the
accusations which she is made to withdraw, clearly indicates the
means that Ashmole had taken to reach his end.3 Hester's resistance
was effectually crushed. On April 4, 1678, he notes, ( my Wife told
me that Mrs. Tradescant was found drowned in her Pond. She
was drowned the Day before about Noon.' On April 22 he adds*
-* I removed the pictures from Mrs. Tradescant's house to mine.'
When Ashmole's collections reached Oxford five years later, all
links with the personal history of the former owners snapped. It
is probable that the papers and correspondence that must have
accumulated in the possession of such substantial well-known people 4
as the Tradescants were either intentionally 5 destroyed by Ashmole
1 Ashmole seems to have in the end inherited everything, including house
property in London and Essex.
2 Rawl. MS. D. 912, f. 668, printed inaccurately by Dr. Ducarel in his
Appendix to the History of Lambeth in the Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica.
Hester's helpless resentment is very clearly seen in the paper.
3 It is stated in the Athenae, iv. 357 that as early as 1677 he approached various
university dignitaries with an offer of ' the Rarities he had obtained ' from John
Tradescant and his wife. Izaak Walton refers to them as in Ashmole's house
in 1676.
4 They occupied two houses and a large garden and orchard in Lambeth,
where they had lived since c. 1625. Queen Henrietta Maria entrusted to their
keeping a piece of the true Cross when she went to Holland in 1642. (MS. Ballard,
ii. 145.) A few extracts from the Lambeth Registers are printed by Dr. Ducarel.
6 Dr. Hamel, Tradescant der Aeltere 1618 in Russland, p. 177, is inclined to
this view.
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or burnt in the fire in his rooms in the Temple in January, 1679.1
Not a scrap of their writing is preserved in the Museum to-day, nor
any document that appears ever to have been theirs.2 It is obvious
that Dr. Plot had no definite information to go upon concerning
the pictures when he made the first catalogue in 1683. Several
portraits are described vaguely as Pictura excellentissimi Viri, and
the large yellow-letter inscriptions put on some of them during the
keepership of John Whiteside 3 probably indicate the limits of the
certain knowledge held in the beginning of the eighteenth century
with regard to such of them as were not — like Charles I and
Selden — familiar to every one. The portraits of the Tradescants,
by far the most interesting in the whole collection, shared in the
prevailing ignorance. When Dr. Ducarel in 1772 was gathering
together all the facts he could discover concerning the family for
his History of Lambeth, the Keeper, William Huddesford, wrote
to him that the portraits in the Museum ' have no date or painter's
name as I can yet find \4 The ascription to William Dobson which
appears first in Dallaway's5 notes to Walpole's Anecdotes and
in many subsequent accounts, has therefore no early authority, and
is admissible at most to two 6 of the whole series. In view of the
1 Roger North, writing many years later, says that part of the Tradescant
Rarities were destroyed in the Temple fire. But neither Ashmole himself
in his own detailed account of his loss (Ash. MS. 1136, f. 101) nor Dugdale,
writing on May 13, 1679, who is equally particular (Wood, Athenae, iv. 337),
mention the Tradescant Museum. * Divers valuable pieces of Antiquity ' which
were burnt may well have been Ashmole's own antiquarian collections. Dugdale
expressly states that some of the chief treasures in coins and MSS., being at
Lambeth, escaped. It seems unlikely, at any rate, that many of the Rarities had
been removed from the rooms built to contain them at Lambeth, where they were
probably inspected by the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford in May 1678, and whence
they were certainly despatched to the University in 1683. Diary, Ash. MSS.
1136 passim.
2 The Bodleian has the signature of the elder Tradescant as owner of a political
tract (Ash. 735), and the account of his voyage to Russia (Ash. MS. 824).
3 The numbers to be found on some of the pictures tally with those in White-
side's list and with those only. He was keeper from 1714 to 1729.
4 Ducarel, Appendix to the History of Lambeth.
5 A letter of Dallaway's on the subject is preserved in the Archives of the
Museum.
6 Summary Guide, 1909, 112.
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importance of these portrait groups a statement of the few known
facts may be made here.
In 1905 Mr. C. F. Bell first drew attention to the close similarity
in workmanship which exists between certain of these pictures —
specially Nos. 427 and 439 — and the portrait inscribed (in the
eighteenth-century hand referred to above) S* Oliver de Crats
a famous Painter (No. 443). A paper * in the Record Office refers
to this Oliver. It is a petition dated 1640 from his father, John
de Critz, asking that a poor scholar's place in the Charterhouse
school granted Oliver in 1636 but not enjoyed, may be transferred
to his younger son Henry,2 Oliver being then (in 1640) too old.
This implies that Oliver was twenty at most when No. 439, the
accomplished group of Hester Tradescant and her stepson, which
is dated 1645, was painted. The youth himself in his portrait,
which has so much in common with the group and may well have
been made at much the same time, looks to be about that age.
It does not seem likely that either picture could be the work of so
young a man. Moreover, if Oliver had become 'a famous painter', it
is quite incredible that amid the mass of information available
concerning the artists of the period his name should never once
be found. It seems, then, that the name of Oliver must be discarded
as that of the painter. But if we may assume that Dr. Plot, who,
as has been suggested, had scanty information to guide him, confused
the subject and the painter of No. 443 3 we may find the clue we
need. It is known that the families of de Critz and Tradescant were
personally associated, for in 1676 we find Thomas de Critz 4 among
the witnesses to Hester Tradescanfs ' submission '. It is possible
that the painter of the portrait of Oliver de Critz and some of the
Tradescant groups was not Oliver but his uncle Emanuell de Critz.
1 Cakndar of State Papers, Domestic, June 23, 1640, printed by Mr. A.
Chamberlain, Art Journal, July, 1905. Oxford Exhibition Illust. Catalogue, 1905.
2 Henry became a scholar of Jesus College, Oxford, in 1649 (Burrows, Register
of the Parliamentary Visitors).
3 The portrait of Cornelius de Neve by himself may have suggested a mis-
leading analogy. They are close together in Plot's catalogue.
4 Probably the Thomas who was appointed sergeant-at-arms in 1707 and died
1728 (Musgrave's Obituary and Luttrell, vi. 173).
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Born about 1605 l of a family originally from Antwerp but of
which members had been naturalized in England since 1552,2 the
son and brother of sergeant-painters to the Court, and himself
a holder of that office, Emanuell de Critz must have been in 1645
a man of considerable position. When the royal collections were
dispersed in 1651 he seems to have organized a sort of syndicate
and was among the largest buyers. His name stands constantly
first in lists of such purchases as ' Emanuell de Critz and the rest
of the Creditors of the late King joined with him, 1st Dividend V
Sometimes he acted for himself alone. On Nov. 18, 1651, he
bought to the value of .£4,787 19*. 7d, and he paid .£800 for
Bernini's bust of the king.4 He was well known to Pepys and
Aubrey, and Robert Walker ' cried up Mr. de Critz as the best
painter in London'. This remark, often quoted away from its
context and applied without definiteness to any member of the
family, is to be found in Richard Symonds's notebook,5 and the
1 See a petition in the Record Office, printed in the Fine Arts Quarterly
Review, iv. N.S. 320.
2 Mr. Lionel Cust, Foreign Artists of the Reformed Religion, Proceedings of
the Huguenot Society, vii. 55. John de Critz, probably the father of Emanudl.
was born in Flanders, but was granted letters of denization for himself and his
heirs on April 25, 1604. Proceedings, xviii. 6. This John was no doubt the painter
of the effigy on the tomb of Queen Elizabeth [in Westminster Abbey, and was
paid £53 6s. 8d. for three whole-lengths of King James, Queen Anne, and the
Prince of Wales, destined for the Archduke of Austria, in Aug. 1606 (Dom. State
Papers). He may have been the painter also of the portraits of Queen Elizabeth,
Sidney, and Walsingham which were engraved in Heroologia. But the evidence
for this relied on by Walpole, that these pictures are marked * at John De Critz'
in an early annotated copy (a modern copy of which is in the British Museum)
is rather weakened by a previous entry, e. g. Humphrey Gilbert * at a shop in
the Strand'. If, however, these? pictures are by the first John, his elder son,
also John and brother of Emanuell, must have helped his father, or himself been
the recipient of the large sums paid a John de Critz in 1639, when the first John
would be about 80. (See also the D.N.B. and Fine Arts Quart. Rev., I.e.)
3 Rawl. MS. D. 695 ; Brit. Mus. Add. MSS. 24625. The seventh and four-
teenth Dividend headed by De Critz amounted to about £7,000.
* MS. in the Library of the House of Lords, printed in the Appendix to the
Seventh Report of the Royal Commission on Historical MSS., p. 90, xxvi.
5 Egerton MS. (Brit. Mus.) 1636. Symonds (1617-92), a connoisseur who
after visiting the studios in Rome was making the round of those in London,
would surely have referred here to a promising nephew of Mr. de Critz had
xxvi INTRODUCTION
subject of it is identified by the account which follows it of a visit
to ' Mr. Decreets house in Austin Fryars ' where Symonds sees the
same treasures from the royal collections, including the Bernini
bust, as are scheduled over the signature of Emanuell in a letter to
Charles II of May, 1660, now in the Library of the House of Lords. l
On Walker's authority, then, we can take it that he was a good
artist, capable of painting the Tradescant portraits. A portrait
ascribed to him by Walpole from Vertue's MSS., but now lost,
may be noticed in this connexion. It is one of Sergeant, after-
wards Judge John Maynard, dated 1657, and represented holding —
like Oliver de Critz — a paper in his hand.2 It seems clear, then,
that if the Tradescant portraits are to be attributed to a painter
named de Critz — and there are personal and artistic reasons for
it — it must be to Emanuell. And if the ascription is accepted,
another portrait of John Tradescant in the National Portrait
Gallery, and perhaps one of Sir Thomas Stanley, should probably
be claimed also as his work. But certainty on the point has not
been reached.3 Under the Restoration Emanuell de Critz was in
full work, employed specially in copying 4 and repairing pictures in
the royal collections. He appears at that time to be a person
whom it gratified Pepys to meet. As no record of his death or
burial has been found 5 he may have died of the plague.
A difficulty with regard to the Ashmolean collection has had to
be faced, and may be mentioned here. It appeared inadvisable
Oliver been known as a painter in the artistic world. In a paper already quoted
Emanuell lays stress on his being the only remaining son of his family. (Fine Arts
Quart. Rev., 1. c.)
1 See above, p. xxv, n. 4. 2 Walpole, Anecdotes, ed. 1862, ii. 365.
3 An examination of the inscription on the group of Hester and her stepson,
No. 439, and the writing and signature of EmanuelTs letter in the House of Lords,
which is undoubtedly autograph, is disappointing. The inscription is apparently
not in the natural script of the writer, and no definite conclusion can be drawn
from the comparison.
4 He copied a portrait of Lord Sandwich by Lely for Pepys (Diary, 1660,
June 30, Oct. 9, 22, Nov. 24 ; 1662, May 9), and was paid £3 10*. for it and the
frame. This was bought by Lord Braybrooke at Mr. Pepys-CockerelTs sale and
is now at Audley End. (Diary, ed. Lord Braybrooke, 1835.)
5 I have searched without success the registers of St. Peter le Poer. His name
does not occur in the registers of the Dutch church in Austin Friars.
TOWN HALL xxvii
to include in this catalogue portraits, chiefly foreign, that have been
acquired for their artistic interest, and, acting on the best advice,
I have omitted them. Their presence in Oxford may be said to be
accidental, and this book is not likely to be consulted in a search
for them.
Among the portraits preserved in the Town Hall it is worth
while to notice the work of John Taylor, of which there appear to
be four examples. Their attribution is due to Mr. Bell, and was
given for the first time in the Catalogue of the Oxford Exhibition
of 1905. Taylor's first known portraits are those of his uncle, the
loyalist ' Water-Poet ', and his own, which he gave together to the
Bodleian Gallery. They are dated 1655. Taylor, who is repre-
sented as a man of about twenty-five, would therefore as a boy have
known Oxford when ' she was ', in Bishop Fell's words, ' an Epitome
of the whole Nation, and all the business of it.' With the king
in 1642 came many of the painters whom he ordinarily employed.
The ' Water-Poet ', made yeoman of the guard by Charles, was, says
Wood, ' much esteemed by the Court and poor remnant of scholars
for his facetious company,' and through him the nephew very possi-
bly saw something of the fringe of the Court circle. But John
Taylor, however much he may have been inspired by this association,
was first and foremost a citizen of Oxford. The glimpses we can
obtain of his prosperous career afford evidence of what the pro-
fession of portrait painter was worth at this period. As we have
seen, he was already at work in 1655. In 1659 he l was com-
missioned by the Corporation to paint portraits of the city bene-
factor and his wife, John and Joan Nixon (Nos. 743, 745), and in
1664 we have the full record in the Town Accounts of his making
the portrait of another benefactor, Dr. Wall, with the cost of the
picture and frame (No. 744). Magdalen College employed him to
copy portraits of the Founder and Dr. John Warner in 1669 and
1670,2 and about 1680 he produced the picture in the Town Hall
1 The Town Council Minute, May, 1659, records the decision that the portraits of
Alderman John Nixon ' and his now wife ' should be painted at the expense of the
city. No entry of payment nor mention of the painter has been found.
2 H. A. Wilson, History of Magdalen College, p. 271-2.
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of Richard Hawkins, alderman and herald-painter (No. 747). In
this year ' Mr. John Taylor, Lymner,' applied to renew his lease.1
4 John Taylor, painter ' became bailiff in 1687, and was elected
mayor in 1695. As mayor he again renewed the lease of his house
for forty years, and appears in the Council Minute Book as John
Taylor, Esq.2 His house was in Canditch, opposite Balliol, and
the fine for renewal, ^10, implies a substantial residence. Probably
it remained in the family, and the John George Taylor who renewed
the lease of his house opposite Balliol College in 1754 3 was presum-
ably a descendant of the painter. Apparently from the first John
Taylor followed the higher walks of his profession, and never did
heraldic or decorative work. In all the Bodleian accounts, where
so many people are mentioned and so many payments entered for
painting and repairing in the Gallery, his name never occurs. This
may of course be accounted for by the fact that he was closely
connected with the city. But since his own portrait was accepted by
the Bodleian it is more reasonable to suppose that his kind of work
was not required. That he prospered cannot be questioned, and
if he prospered on portrait painting it is further evidence of the
prodigious demand for portraits that then existed in Oxford.4
The mayor-painter, it has been noticed, does not stand alone.
Before him, in the third decade of the seventeenth century, Gilbert
Jackson and Robert Greenbury were busily at work in Oxford.
At the time of the royal occupation in the forties, when William
Dobson and John de Critz were in residence with the king, several
of the Music-School pictures must have been produced. Robert
Fisher dated his only known work in the same year as Taylor's
earliest canvas, 1655. During the last quarter of the century
David Loggan, Isaac Fuller, and William Sonmans, and a sculptor
1 Town Council Minute Book, Sept. 13, 1680.
2 Ibid. Sept. 11, 1695. » Ibid. 1754.
4 It is interesting that at this same period Robert Mallory, Warden of the
Merchant Taylors in 1670, Master in 1672, was painting portraits for his Company.
A copy of a portrait of Sir Thomas White was ' ordered to be drawne by our
Master's owne hand ' in 1674. Mallory was paid £7. 17*. for a portrait of Sir
Patience Ward in 1672, and a portrait of * Walter Pell, Esq., and other works ' are
mentioned in 1687. See Catalogue of Pictures, etc., at Merchant Taylors Hall, by
F. Fry, Master, 1907. The picture of Pell is reproduced.
INTRODUCTION xxix
named William Bird,1 were all living partly or wholly in the city
and finding here at least a large proportion of their subjects.
And the eighteenth century would show as regular and numerous
a succession of workers. It would be going beyond what the facts
warrant to discern traces of a local school with a distinct style
and tradition. But surely there is abundant proof of a remarkably
active and continuous artistic life. To sort out and bring together
the authorless pictures and the painters whose works are unrecog-
nized, to discover the artistic personality in some of the many
unassigned portraits in the Oxford collections, must be the labour
of some one with critical gifts and technical knowledge, to which the
present compiler has no pretension.
The chief sources for the history of the University Portraits
have been found in Hearne's MS. catalogue, the first paper in the
first volume of his MS. collections, dated 1705, which was printed
in Memoirs for the Curious, 1708, and reprinted in 1725 as a Letter
containing an Account of some Antiquities between Windsor and
Oxford, with a List of the several Pictures in the School Gallery
adjoyning the Bodlejan Library, and in references scattered through
his Diary; in Gutch's edition of Anthony Wood's History and
Antiquities of the University of Oxford, in other catalogues of the
Bodleian Gallery earlier and later and in Dr. Macray's Annals of the
Bodleian Library ; in the Bodleian Register of Benefactions, the
Vice-Chancellors' Accounts and Minute Books of the Hebdomadal
Board and Council preserved in the University Archives, and in
the early Library Accounts and papers. More recent gifts are
recorded in the various Reports and Registers of Accessions pub-
lished every year by Bodley's Librarian. I have also been allowed
to make use of the wills and inventories kept with the Archives.
Some information has been gathered from the MS. correspondence
of Dr. Rawlinson, and the Ballard and Ashmole MS. collections
in the Bodleian Library. I have also read the early catalogues
1 The portrait monument on the tomb of Bishop Ralph Brideoake in
St. George's Chapel, Windsor, is signed, as are the recumbent effigies of the
Fettiplaces in Swinbrook Church, ' William Byrd of Oxon Fecit/
xxx INTRODUCTION
of the Ashmolean Museum, and in searching for records concerning
the portraits belonging to the city I have enjoyed free access to the
documents preserved in the Town Hall. It is impossible in remem-
bering material more easily accessible not to express one more debt
of gratitude to the Rev. Andrew Clark for his edition of Wood's
Life and Times, with its admirable volume of indexes, and for the
eight volumes already printed of Hearne's Collections, all of which
were published by the Oxford Historical Society. It is needless
to add that the Dictionary of National Biography has been con-
tinually used.
I wish to thank the Librarian and Curators of the Bodleian
Library, the Visitors of the Ashmolean Museum, the Curators of
the Schools, the Sheldonian Theatre, the Chest, the Botanic
Garden, the Taylor Institution, and the Indian Institute, the
Registrar, the Radcliffe Trustees, the Delegates of the Museum,
and the Council of the City and the Clerk of the Peace, all of
whom have allowed the portraits in their possession to be included
in this volume, and have given facilities for their examination or
have contributed to the expenses of the work. Everywhere I have
met with help and kindness. Special gratitude is due to my friend
Mr. T. W. Jackson, Keeper of the Hope Collection of Engraved
Portraits, who has been most generous with his time and trouble in
helping me in my researches and in making the vast treasury of
engraved portraits in his care serviceable to me; to Mr. J. D.
Milner, Assistant Director of the National Portrait Gallery, who
has afforded me much valuable assistance in examining a large
number of the portraits included in this volume, and in the choice
of the illustrations ; to the Director for allowing me access to the
reference library at that institution; and to the Keeper of
the University Archives for permission to consult documents in his
charge. I am indebted to Major Lincoln Sandwith for kindly
verifying coats of arms in Bodleian pictures, to the Rev. W. A. S.
Pattrick, Canon G. A. Cooke, the Rev. W. C. Curtis, Mr. W. T.
Malleson, and the Rev. E. Dalrymple, who have most courteously
supplied information I have asked for with regard to monuments in
churches, or entries in parish registers. I am much indebted to Mr.
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A. H. Montgomery for kindly facilitating my researches in the
Town Hall ; to Mr. C. E. Doble, who was so good as to read some
of my proofs ; and to Mr. F. Madan, one of the original projectors
of the catalogue, for reading my revises and for giving me constant
help in the Bodleian Library. But chiefly I owe thanks to Mr.
C. F. Bell. He set the model which I have tried to follow ; he has
read and greatly enriched my proofs, and supplied me with material.
Without his guidance and the impulse which his knowledge, taste,
and judgement have given to the study of the artistic collections of
Oxford this book could neither have been begun nor have reached
such completeness as it has attained. While, however, acknow-
ledging much help most generously given me, it is only fair to add
that I alone must bear the responsibility for some doubtful identi-
fications and for the many mistakes and omissions which I fear are
still to be found in these pages.
RACHAEL POOLE.
OxroRD, July, 1911.
The Portraits are catalogued as far as possible in the chronological order of
the deaths of the subjects.
The vast treasury of portraits bequeathed by Mr. and Mrs. Sutherland and
Mr. and Mrs. Hope, for obvious reasons, is not touched in this catalogue, al-
though many original drawings are included in both collections. Certain
pictures and copies in the Ashmolean Museum are also omitted.
The portraits are described under four sizes — bust, the head and shoulders ;
half-length, to the waist ; three-quarters-length, to the knees or below ; whole
length, the entire figure. The terms ' to r.' ' to 1.' denote to the right or left
of the spectator.
The measurements are taken from the surface visible inside the frame ; the
height is always placed before the width.
Asterisks are attached to portraits that are reproduced in the Illustrated
Catalogues of the Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits of 1904, 1905, and
1906.
The numbers in square brackets at the end of the description of the
Bodleian pictures correspond with small red figures on the frames and tally
with an official MS. List.
Engravings of the pictures have been very imperfectly dealt with owing to
the difficulty of accurate comparison. They are mentioned as often as
possible, without reference to their value, when they can be used as versions
of Oxford portraits.
PORTRAITS IN THE BODLEIAN
LIBRARY AND GALLERY
AND OTHERS PRESERVED IN VARIOUS ROOMS
OF THE OLD SCHOOLS, IN THE SHEL-
DONIAN THEATRE, AND IN THE
ADJACENT BUILDINGS
1 JOHN OF BALLIOL
W. Sonmans.
Son of Hugh of Balliol of Barnard's Castle ; m. Devorguilla^
daughter of Alan of Galloway, Constable of Scotland ; the
father of John of Balliol, King of Scotland ; as part of a penance
imposed at the instance of the Bishop of Durham, made pro-
vision for sundry scholars at Oxford before 1266 ; d. 1269.
Three-quarters length, standing to r., his head turned facing the
spectator ; small beard and moustache ; plumed helmet ; in
full armour; his r. hand on hilt of sword, his 1. on shield,
showing arms of Balliol, which stands by his side to r. ; archi-
tectural and sky background.1 Canvas 50 x 40 in. [341.]
One of the series of the Founders of the Colleges which were
painted and hung up in 1670. The portrait is said to be that
of a local blacksmith.2
2 WALTER OF MERTON
W. Sonmans.
Chancellor, 1261 and 1272 ; Bishop of Rochester, 1274 ; founded
Merton College c. 1264 ; d. 1277.
Three-quarters length, facing the spectator; clean-shaven face;
1 This and all the other pictures of Founders are reproduced in hand-coloured
acquatint engravings in Ackermann's History of the University, and were en-
graved by Faber in 1712. The inscriptions recording titles and dates of
benefactions attached to most of them are to be found in Gutch's edition of
Wood's History and Antiquities of the University of Oxford, ii. 955-6, note. Cf.
Wood MS. F. 2.
2 Oxoniana, iii. 15.
890
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jewelled mitre; grey fur tippet over rochet; his 1. hand holds
crozier with scarlet infula, turned outwards, his r. with rings
on the first and fourth fingers holds book with a large hanging
seal ; shields of arms above to r. and 1. ; dark background.
Canvas 48 x 35 in. [343.]
One of the series of Founders painted in 1670. (See note to No. 1.)
3 DEVORGUILLA
W. Sonmans.
Daughter of Alan of Galloway, wife of John of Balliol, and
mother of John of Balliol, King of Scotland ; to carry out her
husband's intentions she gave statutes and an endowment to
Balliol College, 1282-4 ; built Sweetheart Abbey in Galloway ;
d. 1290.
Three-quarters length, seated to 1. in a blue velvet arm-chair, the
head turned towards the spectator ; white coif and veil which
falls over shoulders and back, and lies in folds on the 1. arm of
her chair ; low-cut pale crimson robe edged round the neck with
pearls over dull green underdress with sleeves ; the r. hand in her
lap holds a partly opened green-covered volume, the 1. rests on
arm of chair ; behind, a golden-brown curtain embroidered with
the arms of Scotland ; landscape background with a building and
cloudy sky. Canvas 50 x 40 in. [342.]
Wood's description of the figure of Devorguilla on her seal attached
to the statutes of Balliol College is as follows : ' . . . her Image,
in full front, dressed in a Dowager's habit, viz : a loose gown
over her close dressing, reaching to her heels, something like
(except the dressing of her head) the habit of a nun, as may be
seen at large in the picture of her hanging in the school Gallery.
Her arms also being expanded, she holds in her right hand the
arms or ensigns of Balliol, and in her left the arms of Galloway,
which are a Lyon rampant crowned. Below on the right side of
her is an Escutcheon charged with three garbs ... on the left,
an escutcheon charged with two pyles in point . . .' This de-
scription applies to the figure hanging over the dais in Balliol
Hall, but not at all to the one now in the Bodleian, which there-
fore must have replaced an older portrait of the Balliol type.1
Our present picture (No. 3) by Sonmans, painted in 1 670 for the
series of Founders, was the portrait of Jenny Reeks, daughter
of Henry Reeks, an apothecary in the parish of St. Peter in the
1 The first version of Wood's Antiquities was written before 1670.
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East, who was employed by Wood, and died in 1695. Jenny,
who was, says Hearne, 'the famousest Beauty in Oxford when" I
was first entered,' married the Rev. Emanuel Mugge, B.C.L., of
Magdalen Hall, who was vicar of Stockton in Warwickshire
in 1714.1
4 JOHN DUNS SCOTUS
Edmund Ashfield.
B.1265(?); a Franciscan at Oxford in 1300, B.D. ; D.D. in Paris,
1304; d. 1308.
Three-quarters length, standing almost facing the spectator, the
head turned in profile to 1. and looking intently at an open
upright volume on a reading-desk to 1. ; grey skull cap ; shaven
face ; close-fitting grey woollen garment open at neck ; in front,
table with papers, one of which he holds with his 1. hand, a pen
in the r ; inscribed below, JOHANNES DUNS SCOTUS DOCTOR SUBTILIS.
Canvas 50x38 in. [255/1
In the Library accounts for 1670 occurs a payment for a frame ' for
Scotus his Picture and ye carriage of it from London, £3 . 8 '.
Wood in his manuscript list notes ' taken from a copie in Lambeth
Gallery ' ; Hearne says that it was painted by Edmund Ashfield
from his own invention.
A similar picture is at Merton College.
5 WALTER OF STAPELDON
W. Sonmans.
B. 1261 ; taught Canon Law at Oxford ; Bishop of Exeter, 1307 ;
Lord High Treasurer, 1320 ; founded Exeter College as Stapel-
don Hall, 1314; d. 1326.
Three-quarters length, standing to r., the head turned towards the
spectator; clean-shaven face, wearing a grey mitre jewelled;
reddish cope, embroidered, turned back showing purplish lining
over alb with wide sleeves beneath which are seen the sleeves of
black cassock ; r. hand holds book, the 1. the crozier turned out ;
shield of arms of subject ; dark background. Canvas 47 X 36 in.
[344.]
One of the series of Founders painted in 1670. (See note
to No. 1.)
1 Wood's Antiquities, p. 72, and Life and Times, ed. Clark, iii. 492 ; Foster's
Alumni ; Oxoniana, iii. 15 ; Hearne's Collections, iv. 259. See note to No. 1.
B 2
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6 KING EDWARD II
W. Sonmans.
B. 1284 ; son of King Edward I and Eleanor of Castile ; succeeded
to the throne, 1307 ; married Isabella of France, 1308 ; at the
suggestion of Adam de Brome, founded Oriel College in 1326 ;
murdered 1327.
Three-quarters length, slightly to 1., crowned ; long hair, short grey
beard and moustache; scarlet and ermine mantle over gold-
embroidered tunic ; gold chain round neck ; the r. hand holds
sceptre, the 1. the orb ; shield of the arms of England to r.
Canvas 48 x 36 in. [345.]
One of the series of Founders painted in 1670. (See note to No. 1.)
7 ROBERT OF EGLESFIELD
W. Sonmans.
Rector of Burgh in Westmorland ; Chaplain to Queen Philippa ;
founded Queen's College, 1341 ; d. 1349.
Three-quarters length, facing the spectator ; clean-shaven face ;
black cap ; red patterned cope with gold-embroidered edges
over alb with wide sleeves; the r. hand with two fingers ex-
tended, giving benediction, the 1. holding book ; shield of his
arms to r. ; dark background. Canvas 47 X 36. [346.]
One of the series of Founders painted in 1670. (See note to No. 1.)
8 GEOFFREY CHAUCER
B. 1340 (?) ; poet, courtier, and servant of the State ; d. 1400.
Half-length, three-quarters to 1. ; greyish white head- wrap or
hood with liripipe hanging over shoulders ; dark hair, beard and
moustache ; narrow white collar ; grey dress, buttoned below the
beard ; the r. hand holds a penner upon his breast, the 1.
a rosary of red and black beads ; above to r. a shield of arms ;
inscribed to 1. CAUCER 1400.1 Panel 12J x 10£ in. [323.]
No. 50 in Hearne's list, 1705.
Exhibition of National Portraits, 1866, No. 8.
Probably based upon the same original as the small whole length
in the National Portrait Gallery, only indirectly from Occleve's
miniature.
1 M.H. Spielraann (Portraits of Geoffrey Chaucer, 1900) considers the inscription
modern, possibly covering an older one, and the portrait as a whole without
authority or importance.
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9 THE SAME
Bust to 1., looking downwards; black head-wrap or hood with
liripipe over shoulders ; fair hair, moustache and beard ; dark
grey dress ; collar edged above and below with cord ; inscribed
above to r. G. CHAUCER in letters similar to those on the portrait
of Gower. Crayon drawing on paper, 13f x 11 in. [322.]
Bequeathed to the University by Dr. Rawlinson together with the
head of Gower in 1755, and described in the Register of Benefac-
tions as ' a crayon, glazed V
10 WILLIAM OF WYKEHAM
W. Sonmam.
B. 1324 ; Bishop of Winchester, 1367 ; Lord Chancellor, 1368-71 ;
founded his college of St. Mary at Winchester, 1378, New
College, 1380; d. 1404.
Three-quarters length, standing slightly to 1., wearing a blue mitre
jewelled ; clean-shaven face ; green cope embroidered in gold over
an alb ; amice ; gloves with deep pointed gauntlets and a cross on
the backs ; the r. hand with two fingers extended gives the
benediction, the 1. holds crozier, turned outwards, by a white
infula ; shield of arms — of the see of Winchester impaling those
of the subject — above to 1. ; background, a canopy and architecture,
views above to r. Winchester College, to 1. New College, with the
lines beneath 6qui condis deoctra condis collegia laevd, Nemo tuarum
imam vicit utraque manu '. Canvas 47 X 36 in. [347.]
One of the series of Founders painted in 1670. (See note to
No. 1.)
II JOHN GOWER
B. 1325 (?) ; author of Confessio Amantis and other poems ; a cour-
tier and friend of Chaucer; d. 1408.
Half length in profile to r. ; light blue skull cap with gold edge ; long
straight hair, greyish beard and moustache ; blue gown covered
with a black scroll pattern ; S.S. collar ; inscribed GOWER above
to r. Crayon drawing on paper 14 x 11 in. [321.]
Founded upon the effigy on his tomb at Southwark ; bequeathed
by Dr. Rawlinson in 1755.
1 Mr. Spielmann describes this as almost certainly an eighteenth-century
work.
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12 RICHARD FLEMING
W. Sonmans.
Of University College ; Proctor in 1407 ; Bishop of Lincoln, 1420 ;
founded Lincoln College, 1427; d. 1431.
Three-quarters length, standing facing the spectator ; wearing
a green jewelled mitre ; clean-shaven face ; scarlet chasuble with
gold orphreys and stole over an alb with wide sleeves, beneath
which are seen the close black ones of the cassock, and the ruffle
of a shirt ; the r. hand touches breast, the 1. holds crozier turned
in ; shield of arms of the subject above to 1. ; dark background.
Canvas 48x36 in. [348.]
One of the series of Founders painted in 1670. (See note to No. 1.)
13 HENRY CHICHELE
W. Sonmans.
B. 1362 (?) ; Fellow of New College ; Bishop of St. Davids, 1408 ;
Archbishop of Canterbury, 1414 ; founded All Souls College,
1437; d. 1443.
Three-quarters length, slightly to r., the head turned towards the
spectator; wearing a gold mitre; clean-shaven face; crimson
chasuble with scolloped edge and lined with white over an alb of
which the sleeves end in frills ; pallium twisted on his r. shoulder ;
ends of the stole visible ; his r. hand raised in blessing, his 1. holds
the archiepiscopal cross ; dark architectural background. Canvas
50x40 in. [350.]
On the frame are the arms of Canterbury impaling those of Chichele
and a mitre above.
One of the series of Founders painted in 1670. (See note to No. 1.)
14 WILLIAM OF WAYNFLETE
W. Sonmans.
B. 1395 (?) ; son of William Patten ; educated at New College ;
Provost of Eton, 1443 ; Bishop of Winchester, 1447 ; Lord Chan-
cellor, 1456 ; founded St. Mary Magdalen College, 1458 ; d. 1486.
Three-quarters length, standing slightly to 1. ; green jewelled mitre ;
red and gold cope with dark green velvet edge over a girdled alb,
and amice ; white gauntlet gloves with red cross on the backs ;
his 1. hand, with rings over the gloves on the first and third fin-
gers, holds book, his r. a crozier, turned in, by a red infula;
shield of Magdalen College arms surmounted by a mitre above
to r. ; background, to r. curtain, to 1. view of Magdalen Tower.
Canvas 47x36 in. [349.]
One of the series of Founders painted in 1670. (See note to No. 1.)
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15 THE SAME
Bust, facing the spectator ; black cap with ear-flaps, clean-shaven
face ; black gown ; white rochet, fur tippet ; shield of arms of
Magdalen College above to 1. with the motto FECIT MIHI MAGNA
QUI POTENS ET SANCTUM NOMEN Ejus. Panel 13^ x 10 in. [5.]
Possibly given by Dr. Rawlinson. The portrait first appears in
Gutch's Catalogue of 1796. Another is at Magdalen College.
16 MARTIN LUTHER
B. 1483 at Eisleben, Thuringia ; entered the convent of Augustinian
Friars at Erfurt, 1505 ; professor at the University of Witten-
berg, 1508 ; condemned for heresy at the Diet of Worms, 1521 ;
d. 1546.
Bust to r., the head turned to r. and looking upwards ; grey hair ;
clean-shaven face ; gown edged with brown and white fur over
black dress with red collar showing white shirt with narrow black-
edged collar within ; both hands hold a small book ; the figure is
placed behind a balustrade inscribed D. M. LUTERUS EISLEBIAE NATUS
ANNO 1483 10 NOVEMBRIS : ERFUDIAE IN MAGISTRUM PROMOTUS 1505,
AETATIS SUAE 22 : WITTEBERGAM VENIT 1508, AETATIS SUAE 25 ;
IN DOCTOREM RENUNCIATUS 1512, AETATIS 29 : MARITUS FACTUS 1525,
AETATIS 41 : EISLEBIAE PLACIDE MORTUUS 1546, 18 FEBRUARII : HINC
WITTEBERGAM DEDUCTUS, IBIQUE SEPULTUS EST AETATIS SUAE 63.
Grey background. Canvas 29 x 22 in. [226.]
Given to the University by Brian Broughton, LLD., of All Souls
College, in 1707.1 In his own copy of Gutch, however, Dr.
Bliss has inserted a note to the effect that the picture was pre-
sented by Dr. Thomas Bay ley, President of Magdalen, 1704-6 ;
it appears in Hearne's Letter dated 1708.
17 MARGARET BEAUFORT, COUNTESS OF
RICHMOND AND DERBY
B. 1443 ; daughter and heiress of John, first duke of Somerset ; m.
first Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond ; and became the mother
of King Henry VII ; foundress of St. John's and Christ's Colleges
in Cambridge, and of the Lady Margaret Chairs at both Univer-
sities ; d. 1509.
Half-length to 1. ; white pointed coif over white close-fitting
1 Hearne's Collections, iii. 381.
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wimple ; black gown ; both hands hold a partly opened book
bound in red. Canvas laid on panel, 22 x 17J in. [19.]
Given to the University by Richard Davis, M.A., of Sandford,
Oxon., in 1783.
A similar picture is in the National Portrait Gallery, No. 551.
18 WILLIAM SMITH
W. Sonmcms.
B. 1460 (?) ; Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, 1493 ; Chancellor
of the University, 1495 ; Bishop of Lincoln, 1496 ; founded, with
Richard Sutton, Brasenose College in 1509. d. 1514.
Three-quarters length, facing the spectator; clean-shaven face;
wearing a green jewelled mitre; gold embroidered cope over
rochet, black cassock sleeves showing beneath ; his r. hand holds
a book, his 1. a crozier turned outward ; shield of arms : the see
of Lincoln impaling the arms of the subject ; dark background.
Canvas 47 X 36 in. [352.]
Based upon the picture at Brasenose College.
One of the series of Founders painted in 1670. (See note to No. 1.)
19 JOHN FROBEN
Copy after H. Holbein.
B. 1460 at Hammelburg in Switzerland ; the famous and learned
printer, a friend of Erasmus ; d. 1527.
Half-length, nearly in profile to r. ; thin greyish brown hair ; clean-
shaven, deeply lined face; black gown with collar and lining
of brown fur ; inscribed IOANNES FROBENIUS TYP. Canvas
19xl2£in. [237.]
Inscribed on the back ' Presented by J. B. Jarman 11 Oct. 1855 '.
Copy after the portrait by Holbein at Hampton Court.
20 RICHARD FOX
W. Sonmans.
B. 1448 (?) ; educated at Magdalen College (?) ; Bishop of Exeter,
1487, of Bath and Wells, 1492, of Durham, 1494, of Winches-
ter, 1501 ; Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, 1507-19;
founded Corpus Christi College, 1515 ; benefactor of Magdalen
College and of Pembroke College, Cambridge; d. 1528.
Three-quarters length, facing the spectator ; black cap ; clean-
shaven face; rochet, fur tippet; both hands rest on staff in
front ; crozier, turned out, to r. ; mitre on table to r. ; four
shields of arms, the arms of the sees of Durham, Exeter, and
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Bath and Wells each impaling those of Foxe ; also the arms of
the see of Winchester alone ; red curtain background. Canvas
47x36 in. [353.]
Based upon the portrait at Corpus Christi College, and painted for
the series of Founders in 1670. (See note to No. 1.)
21 THOMAS WOLSEY
B. 1475 (?) ; Fellow of Magdalen College, 1497 ; Archbishop of
York, 1514 ; Cardinal and Lord Chancellor, 1515 ; founded
Cardinal College afterwards Christ Church, 1524 ; d. 1530.
Half-length standing in profile to 1. ; scarlet cap ; clean-shaven face ;
scarlet cape with hood and gown over white rochet with black
wrist-band; his 1. hand holds a short scroll; shield of arms
above to 1. ; bluish-green background. Panel 18J x 14^ in. [6.]
Given to the University by Charles Godwin of Balliol College
in 1750.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1904, No. 19.
22 GERALD FITZGERALD, EARL OF KILDARE
P Copy after Hans Holbein.
B. 1487; in England as a hostage, 1497-1503; Lord High
Treasurer in Ireland, 1503-13; succeeded as ninth earl, 1513;
frequently Lord Justice and Lord Deputy from 1513 till his
death, but recalled to England 1518-23, 1525-30, 1531-4 ; d.
a prisoner in the Tower, 1534.
Half-length, standing facing the spectator, the head slightly turned
to r. ; flat, black, jewelled cap ; full, fair beard and moustache ;
red surcoat with fur collar over black jacket with embroidered
sleeves and edges ; embroidered vest beneath the jacket ; white
shirt showing at neck and wrists ; gold chain with gold equal-
sided cross hanging from it ; hands clasped before him holding
the hilt of dagger ; rings on third and fourth fingers of the r.,
and on fourth finger of the 1. hand ; shields of arms above to r.
and 1. ; bluish-green background, inscribed above, COMES KILDARIE
.ETATis 43. Panel 15| x 13 in. (11.)
Given by Dr. Rawlinson in 1749.
A copy on a reduced scale from a portrait ascribed to Holbein in
the possession of the Duke of Leinster at Carton, Maynooth,
which is inscribed — GERALDUS FILIUS GERALDI COMES KILDARIE,
AETATIS 43, A°. DNI, 1530. The Duke's picture was in the Tudor
Exhibition, 1890, No. 63.
Sir G. Scharf notes that No. 22 has been entirely repainted.
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23 SIR THOMAS MORE
After Hans Holbein.
B. 1479; entered Canterbury Hall, 1492; knighted, 1521; Lord
Chancellor, 1529-32 ; the friend of Erasmus, Holbein, and all
scholars ; author of Utopia ; beheaded 1 535.
Half-length to r. ; black cap ; clean-shaven face ; black gown with
fur collar and short sleeves over red dress ; collar of S.S. with a
Lancastrian rose pendant ; hands lightly clasped, the r. holding
a slip of paper ; ring on index-finger of 1. Panel 10 x 8. [7.]
Bequeathed by Dr. Rawlinson in 1755.
The original much larger portrait by Holbein is in the possession
of Mr. Huth. A similar copy on panel is in the National
Portrait Gallery.
24 DESIDERIUS ERASMUS
After Hans Holbein.
B. 1466 at Rotterdam; visited England, 1499, 1505-6, 1509-14;
1516, 1517; the great scholar; d. at Basle, 1536.
Half-length to 1. ; elderly, thin, clean-shaven face ; black cap with
ear-flaps; black gown lined with brown fur, with turned-back
cuffs ; both hands — the thumb of the r., the whole of the 1. —
hold a red-covered open volume with a jewelled book-mark which
rests on a dull olive-green covered table in front; dark blue
background. Panel 14£ x 10£ in. [8.]
Given to the University by Edward Stanley in 1780.
Based with slight variations in detail upon the portrait at Parma
dated 1530.
25 THE SAME
Half-length to 1. ; black cap ; white hair ; clean-shaven face, looking
up; black gown, lined with brown fur; fur tippet and cuffs;
hands before him, invisible ; painted in an oval spandrel. Panel
8|x6£in. [9.]
Bequeathed to the University by Dr. Rawlinson in 1755 and placed
in the Library in 1757.
This portrait approaches in type the small head in the Basle Museum.
26 THE SAME
Copy after Hans Holbein.
Half-length to 1. ; black cap with ear-flaps ; clean-shaven face ;
black gown, lined and turned back with brown fur ; both hands
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rest on a closed volume bound in scarlet with ribbon ties in-
scribed along the edges HPAKAEIO(I) noNo(i) ERASMI ROTERO. ; a ring
on the third finger of the 1. hand ; behind to 1. is a Renaissance
pillar with a carved capital, to r. a blue curtain and shelf on
which are two books lying and one standing leaning against them ;
on one is the date MDXXIII. Panel 28£ x 21 in. [312.]
One of the many copies with slight variations of the portrait by
Holbein at Longford Castle, which was bought by Lord
Folkestone at Dr. Mead's sale in 1754, and is reproduced in
the catalogue of the Radnor Collection, i. 46.
Given to the University, according to an inscription on the back,
by Sir James Thornhill in 1721.
27 THOMAS CROMWELL
Mary More.
B. 1485 (?) ; as secretary to Cardinal Wolsey drew up deeds of
foundation of Cardinal College, Oxford ; K. G. 1537 ; the chief
instrument in the destruction of the monasteries ; created Earl of
Essex, 1540 ; beheaded, 1540.
Bust almost in profile to 1. ; clean-shaven face ; black velvet cap over
black coif; black gown with brown fur collar. Canvas 23f X 19
in. [12.]
A paper pasted at the back records that ' this portrait of Thomas
Cromwell Earl of Essex was given to the Library by Maria More
as a portrait of Sir Thomas More \1
In the Library accounts for 1674-5 occurs a payment of 2/6 6 to Mr.
Whitehall for portage of Sir Thomas Moore's picture to the
Gallery '. Robert Whitehall, described by Wood as a pot-poet
from Christ Church, was a fellow of Merton (d. 1685). He
wrote some complimentary verses, dated Oct. 26, 1674, 'to the
no less Vertuous than ingenious Mistress Mary More upon her
sending Sir T. More's Picture (of her owne drawing) to the Long
Gallery at the Publique Scholes in Oxon,' which produced a
pretended reply from the lady protesting against Whitehall's
£ ' *) *>
'jeare /
Gutch mentions two portraits of More, the smaller described as by
Holbein, the other a bequest by Dr. Rawlinson, 'Maria More
pinxit 1574 '; a confusion due to the fact that Dr. Rawlinson gave
several small Tudor portraits among which this one probably
always hung. The date no doubt is an error for 1674.
1 Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting, ed. Wornum, 1862, ii. 623.
2 Rawl., MS. D. 912, ff. 196-7, and Wood's Life and Times, ii. 300, note.
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Sir George Scharf notes that the picture has been ignorantly
painted over. The original upon which it is based is at Tytten-
hanger Park. A similar copy is in the National Portrait Gallery.
28 PARACELSUS
Copy from P. P. Rubens after Scorel.
Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim; b. 1493 at Einsiedeln,
Switzerland; a physician and naturalist; discovered hydrogen;
d. 1541.
Bust very slightly to r. ; scarlet cap, the crown covered with dark
fur ; curly brown hair falling on each side of the clean-shaven
face ; coat with gold trimming open over white shirt ; both hands
rest on balustrade in front, the r. holds partly opened book ;
landscape and sky background. Panel 28| x 21 in. [241.]
Given to the University by the executors of Samuel Malbon, apo-
thecary of Oxford, in 1791. [Reg. D. p. 76 Bodleian Library.]
A portrait of Paracelsus, bequeathed to the Louvre by the Baron
de la Coste in 1908 and painted ' a peu pres surement ' by Jan van
Scorel about 1520, was probably the original of Rubens' copy
formerly at Blenheim, now at the Royal Museum in Brussels.
The Louvre picture has inscribed on the balustrade FAMOSO.
DOCTOR. PARESELSUS.1
Sir G. Scharf notes, of this portrait, ' an old dark heavy copy of the
Blenheim picture.'
29 SIR THOMAS WYATT
Based upon a drawing by Hans Holbein.
B. 1503 (?); M.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge, 1520;
knighted, 1537 ; diplomatist and poet ; d. 1542.
Bust, three-quarters to 1. ; bald forehead ; dark hair, beard and
moustache ; bare neck ; red drapery round the shoulders ; brown
background ; inscribed SYR • THOMAS • WYAT. Panel 17 J X 12^
in. [13.]
This and a similar picture in the National Portrait Gallery are
based upon a woodcut after Holbein published in Leland's
Naeniae in mortem T. Viati, 1542.
Given to the University by Dr. Rawlinson in 1741. 2
Exhibition of National Portraits, 1866, No. 68; Tudor Exhibi-
1 Gazette des Beaux-Arts, March 1909, p. 266.
2 See Day Books, December, 1741 ; the entry in Register D. p. 40— recording
the gift of a portrait of Sir Thomas Wyatt as one of • three fine pictures given
by Edward Stanley, Esq., and placed in the Gallery in 1780'— must be an error.
Cf. also note by Mr. Lionel Cust in the Burlington Magazine, xvi. 159.
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tion, 1890, No. 169 ; Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits,
1904, No. 24 ; Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1909, No. 50.
30 HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY
B. 1517 (?) ; poet, scholar, and soldier ; K.G. and High Steward
of Cambridge University, 1541 ; suspected of high treason and
beheaded, 1547.
Half-length to 1. ; flat black cap ; dark hair, moustache and beard ;
dark dress slashed in two rows of small red puffs across chest ;
fur cloak. Panel with arched top, 8J x 6 in. [14.]
Bequeathed to the University by Dr. Rawlinson in 1755.
In the Exhibition of National Portraits, 1866, No. 95.
31 KING HENRY VIII
B. 1491 ; son of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York ; succeeded to
the throne, 1509 ; established Christ Church, 1546; d. 1547.
Three-quarters length, facing the spectator ; short reddish beard ;
flat jewelled cap with a white feather; white collar and wrist
frills ; red cloak over red doublet worked with gold and white ;
white belt supporting dagger ; collar of the Order of the Garter ;
another chain and pendant ; his r. hand holds gloves, his 1. closed,
hangs down ; rings on both ; dark background. Panel 41 x 35 in.
[70.]
Given to the University by the Dean and Canons of Christ Church
in 1769, in exchange for a whole-length portrait by Sonmans
which now hangs in Christ Church Hall.
32 LADY JANE GREY
B. 1537 ; daughter of Henry Grey, Earl and later Duke of Suffolk ;
married, 1553, by the Duke of Northumberland, to his fourth son,
Lord Guildford Dudley, and proclaimed Queen, 1553 ; beheaded
on Tower Hill, 1554.
Bust, to r. almost facing the spectator ; black French hood and
black dress, with ermine collar and slashing ; bluish-green back-
ground. Panel 14 x 11J in. [15.]
On a larger scale and reversed, but otherwise closely resembling the
picture by Lucas d'Heere in the National Portrait Gallery.
Given to the University by Dr. Rawlinson in 1751.
Exhibition of National Portraits, 1866, No. 190 ; Tudor Exhibition,
1890, No. 225 ; Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1904,
No. 28.
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33 STEPHEN GARDINER
B. 1483 (?) ; Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 1525 ; Secretary
to Cardinal Wolsey and Henry VIII ; Bishop of Winchester, 1531;
Lord Chancellor ; Chancellor of the University of Cambridge,
1553 ; d. 1555.
Bust, three-quarters to 1. ; black cap ; clean-shaven face ; brown
fur tippet and rochet over black gown ; dark background. Panel
llixlOJin. [19.]
Probably given to the University by Dr. Rawlinson.1 It first
appears in the Catalogue of 1796.
Engraved in Harding's Biographical Mirrour, 1795.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1904, No. 29.
34 THOMAS CRANMER (?)
B. 1489 ; Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge ; Archbishop of
Canterbury, 1533 ; condemned for heresy by Cardinal Pole, de-
graded, and burnt at Oxford, 1556.
Bust, nearly facing the spectator ; black cap ; greyish moustache
and beard ; brown patterned gown lined with fur over red
doublet. Panel 15| x 14 in. [20.]
Presented to the University by Dr. Rawlinson about 1749. It is
very unsatisfactory as a likeness of Cranmer.
35 SIR THOMAS POPE
B. 1507 (?); knighted, 1537; became Privy Councillor on Queen
Mary's accession ; founded Trinity College and endowed it with
the site and buildings of Durham College ; d. 1559.
Three-quarters length, facing the spectator; clean-shaven face;
black cap ; white collar ; black short-sleeved gown lined and
turned back with ermine over dark dress; gold chain with
jewelled pendant ; r. hand holds gloves, the thumb of the 1. rests
on belt, ring on first finger ; the frame is inscribed THOMAS POPE
MILES, DECESSIT 29 IANUARIS ANNO DOMINI 1558 ANNO AETATIS 50 ;
dark architectural background. Canvas 50 x 40 in. [68.]
According to the author of Oxoniana (ii. 219) the picture of Pope
painted for the purpose of presentation to the Bodleian Gallery
in 1665 was placed in Trinity College library ; another ' most
highly finished old portrait' was given by the College to the
University. See also note to No. 1.
1 No complete list of his benefaction exists.
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36 SIR THOMAS WHITE
W. Sonmans.
B. 1492; apprenticed under the Merchant Taylors' Company;
Warden, 1533; knighted and Lord Mayor of London, 1553;
founded St. John's College, 1555, and Gloucester Hall, 1560 ;
d. 1567.
Three-quarters length, slightly to 1. ; black cap ; clean-shaven face ;
white collar and cuffs; red fur-edged gown over black velvet
clothes ; gold chain ; his r. hand lying on table to 1. holds
gloves, his 1. rests on waist with thumb in girdle ; shield of
arms above to 1. ; dark background. Canvas 47 x 36 in. [354.]
Based with slight variations upon a picture painted by Sampson in
1597 in the possession of the City, No. 740.1
A similar portrait has been in the possession of the Merchant
Taylors' Company since before 1609.
One of the series of Founders painted in 1670. (See note to No. 1.)
37 WILLIAM CECIL, LORD BURGHLEY
B. 1520 ; Secretary of State, 1550 ; Lord High Treasurer and
chief minister of Queen Elizabeth from 1572 to his death ;
created Baron Burghley, 1571 ; K. G. 1572 ; d. 1598.
Bust, very slightly to r. ; grey beard and moustache ; black hat
with jewel in front over black cap ; white ruff and ruffles ; dark
blue mantle and collar of the Order of the Garter over red sur-
coat ; his r. hand clasping his cloak. Panel 20 \ x 16 in. [24.]
Probably the portrait given to the University by Dr. Rawlinson in
1752 ; similar to three-quarters length portrait in National Por-
trait Gallery, in which he is holding a Treasurer's wand.
Engraved by W. Mathews.
Tudor Exhibition, 1890, No. 332.
38 THE SAME
*
Whole length mounted on a mule, moving to r. in a garden, the
head turned three-quarters towards the spectator ; black hat over
black cap ; grey beard and moustache ; white ruff and ruffles ;
brown and gold-brocaded cloak with a surcoat of the same lined
and edged with red cloth ; gold chain round neck from which is
suspended the lesser George of the Garter ; the 1. hand holds
1 Reproduced in the Illustrated Catalogue of the Oxford Exhibition, 1904.
Other copies are in St. John's College, and elsewhere. See p. xi.
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reins, the r., a sprig of honeysuckle and a pink; ring on the
little finger ; shield of arms surrounded by the Garter, (Cecil
quartering Heckington, Walcot, Winston and Caerleon) hangs on
branch of tree to 1., beneath which is the motto COR UNUM VIA UNA ;
a tree, and flowering honeysuckle and wild strawberries in fruit and
flower to 1. ; trees and sky background. Panel 56 X 44 in. [231.]
In Register D. is recorded the gift by William Fletcher, Mayor of
Oxford, of ' a Picture of Lord Burleigh ' in 1797. A manuscript
note adds that it was bought at Long Wittenham, Berks.
Engraved by S. Harding, 1810.
Exhibition of National Portraits, 1866, No. 245.
39 NICHOLAS HARPESFELD (?)
B. 1519 (?) ; Fellow of New College, 1535 ; first Regius Professor
of Greek, c. 1546; D.C.L. 1554; Archdeacon of Canterbury,
1554-9, imprisoned in the Tower, 1559-75 ; d. 1575.
Bust, three-quarters to 1. ; head bald, leaning to 1., greyish hair ; lanky
brown beard and long moustache ; the face thin and distressed,
mouth open ; apparently represented as Saint Jerome or some
other ascetic saint, beating his breast with a stone held in his r.
hand ; garment of buff and green fur ; dark background ; above
to r. a shelf with four books with illegible titles on their edges ;
inscribed NICHOLAUS HARPSFELDUS ARCHIDTACONNS CANTNAiRENsis.1
Panel 18J x 15J in. [165.]
Given to the University by R. M. Massey, M.D., in 1730.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1904, No. 44.
40 GEORGE BUCHANAN (?)
B. 1506 ; educated at St. Andrews and Paris ; Principal of St.
Leonard's College, St. Andrews, 1566 ; tutor to James I, 1570 ;
historian of Scotland ; d. 1582.
Bust, facing the spectator ; scanty grey hair, moustache and beard ;
white collar; black coat; inscribed above with name of subject.
Panel 18 Jx 15 in. [21.]
Given to the University by George Clarke, D.C.L., of All Souls
College, in 1732.
A poor picture, perhaps based upon portraits of the type of that in
the possession of the Royal Society.
1 This is possibly not a portrait at all ; the inscription has suffered from the
restoration of a past generation.
No. 38. LORD BURGHLEY
II
No. 46. UNKNOWN LADY
No. 53. PHILIP II
No. .58. EARL OF CUMBERLAND
No. 70. COUNTESS OK CUMBERLAND
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41 WILLIAM OF NASSAU, FIRST PRINCE
OF ORANGE
B. 1533 at the Castle of Dillenburg, s. of William of Nassau-
Dillenburg ; called in later life William the Silent ; inherited
the title and estates of Orange from his cousin, 1544 ; founded
the Dutch Republic, 1579 ; assassinated, 1584.
Bust, three-quarters to r. ; dark cap with black spots on it ; grey
hair, slight grey moustache and closely cropped beard ; white
ruff; dark braided doublet; brown fur collar. Panel 18x13
in. [22.]
An inscription on a piece of paper pasted at back runs — ' William
of Nassau the first Prince of Orange, from Dr. Rawlinson An.
1750— Reed. Aug. 10, 1750.'
42 SIR PHILIP SIDNEY
James Griffith.
B. 1554; educated at Christ Church; knighted, 1583; the
courtier, soldier, and poet ; d. of wounds at Arnhem, 1586.
Bust, slightly to 1. ; short rough hair ; clean-shaven face ; in armour
with a ruff. Figure burnt in outline on wood. 30 x 24 in.
[154.]
Inscribed on the back 'Del* et D.D. J. Griffith Univ. Coll. Socius
1805 '.
A copy from the portrait at Wo burn Abbey engraved in Lodge's
Portraits, of which there are versions at Penshurst and Ditchley.
An example of what were known as poker pictures, several of which
were exhibited at the Society of Artists, and the Free Society.
Other productions of the kind by James Griffith are at University
College. He was Master 1808-21.
43 JOHN FOXE(?)
B. 1516; Fellow of Magdalen College, 1539-45; joined the
Geneva party at Frankfort; Canon of Salisbury, 1563; the
Martyrologist ; d. 1587.
Bust, slightly to r. ; black skull cap ; white hair, moustache and
short beard; broad white collar; black dress; inscribed above
JOHNES FOX INSIGNIS SUI TEMPORIS MARTYRIOLGUS . . . 1587r
890
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below to r. D. D. JOSEPHUS SMITH, COLL. REGINAE, LL.D. A° 1754.
Another inscription, much obscured by varnish, below to 1. runs
HANC EFFIGIEM CELEBER . . . . SUI TEMPORIS MARTYRI . . D. D. . .
COLL. REG. . . Canvas 21 £ x 16£ in. [156.]
Given to the University by Dr. Joseph Smith, Provost of Queen's
College, in 1754.1
This apparently sixteenth-century painting does not entirely resem-
ble other portraits of Foxe, and may have been misnamed.
44 MARY STUART, QUEEN OF SCOTS
B. 1542 ; dau. of James V of Scotland and Mary of Guise ; suc-
ceeded as Queen of Scotland, 1542 ; m. Francis II of France, 1558 ;
returned to Scotland a widow, 1561 ; m. Henry Stewart, Earl
of Darnley, 1565 ; the mother of James I ; m. James, Earl of
Both well, 1567 ; abdicated ; a prisoner in England from 1568 ;
beheaded, 1587.
Bust, facing the spectator ; auburn hair ; light brown eyes ; lace
cap ; close-fitting lace-edged ruff, the 1. side in conical pleats,
the r. in upright ones ; jewelled necklace ; black square-cut
bodice slashed with white across the bosom, with a yoke of
quilted white satin ; an arched gauze veil falls over the shoulders
and back ; gold crucifix hangs from a black ribbon round her
neck. Canvas 22 x 17| in. [118.] See No. 46.
45 THE SAME
Small version of the same. Water-colour drawing, 5J X 4J in. [120.]
Given to the University by the Rev. T. F. T. Ravenshaw, M.A.,
F.S.A., Rector of Pewsey, d. 1882.
This picture is a copy of No. 44, itself a copy of the supposed portrait
of Mary Queen of Scots which, when No. 46 was given to the
Bodleian Collection, appeared upon the surface of the panel.
The copy having been made, the surface was cleaned off by
the advice of Sir David Wilkie in 1838, and the present
painting of an unknown lady was revealed.
Mr. Lionel Cust considered the original of these copies to have
been a palpable forgery as a portrait of the Queen. It was not
even modelled upon any of the authentic likenesses — though
probably based in a very loose way upon the Sheffield portrait.
1 Hearne notes another portrait in the possession of Dr. Charlett, Collection*,
v. 261.
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46 UNKNOWN LADY OF THE SIXTEENTH
CENTURY
Bust, facing the spectator, the head slightly inclined to 1. ; round
black cap ; dark chestnut hair dressed over the ears ; large dark-
brown wide-opened eyes, short nose, full red lips, pale com-
plexion ; low square-cut black dress over greenish-grey bodice
with a fine lace-edged tucker ; falling lace-edged ruff round neck,
the bosom covered with fine transparent cambric. A slender
gold chain loses itself in the front of her dress, pearl ear-ring on
the visible 1. ear. Panel 21 J x 16J in. [119.]
Given to the University by Alderman William Fletcher in 1806,
but at that time and until 1838 this portrait was hidden by the
superposition of another painting, which was copied (see No. 44)
and then destroyed to reveal this older work. The cleaning off
and restoration of the panel was carried out in 1838 by Hogarth
of the Haymarket, under the supervision and advice of Sir David
Wilkie.
Sir George Scharf suggested that this portrait, No. 46, may repre-
sent Frances Duchess of Richmond and Lennox.
Exhibition of National Portraits, 1866, No. 318, as Mary Queen of
Scots. A copy is at St. John's College.
47 ROBERT DUDLEY, EARL OF LEICESTER
B. 1532 (?) ; K.G. 1559 ; High Steward of Cambridge University,
1562; created Baron Denbigh and Earl of Leicester, 1564;
Chancellor of Oxford University, 1564 ; d. 1588.
Bust, slightly to 1. ; black hat encircled with jewels, a buckle and
feather on the r. side ; white hair, grey moustache and beard ;
white lace-edged collar ; dark cloak over doublet embroidered
with roses and leaves in gold; painted in an oval spandrel.
Canvas 28x23 in. [23.]
In the Gallery before 1708. Presented by Sir Peter Venables,
Baron of Kinderton, Cheshire ; d. 1679.
Engraved by W. Mathews.
Sir G. Scharf notes that a head of this type is in Warwick Castle.
c 2
PORTRAITS IN
48 GIACOMO ZABARELLA
B. at Padua, 1538 ; educated at the University, graduated 1558 ;
Professor of Logic, 1563 ; held in great repute as a philosopher ;
given the title of Count Palatine by the Emperor Maximilian II ;
his work De naturalis scientiae constitutione published by his son
in 1590 ; d. 1589.
Half length, three-quarters to 1. ; closely cropped brown hair,
moustache and beard ; loose white collar and black tie ; dark
gown with collar and lining of dark grey fur, apparently an
academical garment, over a brown jacket ; both hands rest on
open folio volume inscribed CAP xxiv DE NAT sci CON ; pen and
ink to r. ; dark background with stone pillar to 1., inscribed
IACOBUS ZABARELLA PATAviNUs COMES. Canvas 37 X 28 in. [200.]
A similar portrait is in J. P. Tomasinus's Illustrium Virorum
Elogia icombus illustrata, Padua, 1630. In Wood's manuscript
list of pictures in the Gallery in 1679.
49 MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
B. 1533 ; the son of Pierre Ey quern, of Montaigne near Bordeaux ;
educated at Bordeaux ; Member of the Parliament of Bordeaux
and Mayor ; published his essays in 1580 and 1588 ; d. 1592.
Bust nearly facing the spectator; brown hair, beard and mous-
tache ; white collar ; black dress ; inscribed above to L
MICHAELL LORD OF MONTAIGNE. Canvas 22 J x 17J in. [235.]
Given to the University by Dr. George Clarke of All Souls College
in 1724.
This portrait, if correctly named, appears to have been painted
earlier in Montaigne's life than any of the engraved heads hitherto
compared with it. In the growth of the hair and beard and in
some other particulars it does not much resemble other likenesses.
50 SIR MARTIN FROBISHER
Cornells Ketel.
B. 1537 (?) ; made his first voyage to Guinea, 1554 ; a discoverer
and navigator ; commanded a ship against the Spanish Armada
and was knighted, 1588 ; died of a wound received in action,
1594.
Whole length, standing to r. ; short dark hair, beard and mous-
tache; white ruff; buff stockings, hose, and jerkin without
sleeves ; white shirt and shoes ; knotted gold cord round neck ;
his r. hand holds a pistol, his 1. rests upon the cross hilt of his
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upright sword, the point of which is on the ground ; behind to
1. is a terrestrial globe standing upon a table covered with
a green cloth ; dark brown background ; inscribed A° DNI. 1577,
AETATTS SUAE 39. c K . F. Canvas 81 £ x 37 in. [401.] l
Given to the University by Walter Charleton, M.D., in 1674.
Exhibition of National Portraits, 1866, No. 395. Tudor Exhibi-
tion, 1900, No, 327. Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits,
1904, No. 68*.
51 SIR JOHN HAWKINS2
B. 1532; began his seafaring life before 1561; Treasurer and
Controller of the Navy ; M.P. for Plymouth 1572 ; commanded
a squadron against the Armada, and knighted 1588 ; founded
a hospital at Chatham ; d. at sea, 1595.
Half length, slightly to r. ; high narrow-brimmed black hat with
five jewelled ornaments ; closely cropped grey hair, beard and
moustache ; close ruff ; short dark cape over dark doublet ;
broad many-linked chain round neck and hanging to waist ;
sword-belt ; the r. hand on hip, the 1. on sword-hilt ; above to 1.
shield of arms of Hawkins with the augmentation granted to
Sir John in 1571, i. e. on a canton or, an escallop between two
palmers' staves sa. Canvas 30 x 25 in. [405.]
This portrait was lately identified by Mr. T. W. Jackson ; in
Wood's manuscript list compiled about 1679 occurs an entry
' Sir Rich. Hawkyns Kt the Traveller, temp. Eliz.'
A similar picture is in the possession of Miss Stuart Hawkins ;
A portrait of ' Sir John Hawkins, Treasurer of the Admiraltie
drawne by Hubbert ' occurs in the Lumley Inventory.
52 PHILIP MARNIX, SEIGNEUR DE
ST. ALDEGONDE(P)
Sir Anihonis Mor(?)
B. 1538 at Brussels ; Ambassador to England, 1575 ; Governor of
Antwerp, 1582 ; the defender of Antwerp in 1584 ; d. 1598.
Half length, standing three-quarters to r. ; dark hair, closely cut
beard and moustache; white pleated ruff and cuffs; black
dress ; his r. hand rests on the corner of a table, his 1. holds
a glove; dark background; inscribed AETA. 35 A° 1573. Panel
39x27£ in. [220.]
Given to the University as a portrait of Sir Thomas Bodley by
Professor Goldwin Smith about 1864, it was shown at the
1 This portrait was sometimes hung in the University Galleries (now the
Ashmolean). 2 Reproduced in Fletcher's Historical Portraits, i.
22 PORTRAITS IN
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits 1904, No. 61, as Sir
Francis Walsingham by Sir Anthonis Mor, and has since passed
under the name of Sir Christopher Hatton. The identification
with Marnix is due to Mr. J. D. Milner of the National Portrait
Gallery. If the identification is correct it is more probable that
the portrait was painted by a follower of Mor, perhaps Pourbus,
than by the master himself, who was closely connected with the
Spanish party in the Netherlands.1
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1904, No. 61*.
53 PHILIP II OF SPAIN
*B. 1527; son of the Emperor Charles V; King of Spain;
married as his second wife Queen Mary of England, 1554 :
occasionally in England till 1557. d. 1598.
Bust, three-quarters to r. ; black cap with white feather ; fair
hair, beard and moustache, the lips prominent ; white ruff; black
dress with ermine collar and slashing tied with gold points;
gold medallion on breast; dark grey background; inscribed
PHILIPPUS REX. Panel, 12 x 8£ in. [25.]
Given to the University by John Gutch, in 1795.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1904, No. 59.
54 TYCHO BRAKE
B. 1546 at Knudstrup in Scania ; studied at Leipzig and Witten-
berg ; astronomer. From his observations of the planets the law
of gravitation was deduced; d. 1601.
Half length, facing the spectator ; closely cropped brown hair and
beard, long moustache, his nose fractured at the bridge repaired
in metal ; circular lace-edged ruff and cuffs ; black cloak over
black doublet fastened with gold buttons ; gold belt ; gold chain
round neck from which is suspended the order of the Elephant
of Denmark, the letters M. H. z. G. A. appear on the chain ; his r.
hand at his waist, his 1., with three rings, holds gloves ; above to
1. is a group of emblems perhaps representing earth, fire, and water;
inscribed to r. EFFIGIES TICHONIS BRAHE, OTTONI D. ^ETATIS SUM
ANNO 50 COMPLETO. QUI POST DIVINUM IN PATRIA EXILIUM LIBERTATI
DESIDERATA, DIVINO PROVISU RESTITUTUS EST. Canvas 38^ X 29
in. [203.]
Given to the University by James Hodgson, F.R.S. (1672-1 755).2
In the Bodleian accounts for 1752 occurs an item for the carriage
of this picture from London with the case, 13/-.
1 Cf. Burlington Magazine, xiv. 365-6, xv. 51.
2 See note to the portrait of Flamsteed, No. 212.
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55 ALEXANDER NOWELL
B. 1507 (?) ; Fellow of Brasenose College, 1526, and Principal, 1595;
Dean of St. Paul's, 1560; Benefactor to Brasenose; d. 1602.
Half length, slightly to 1. ; high-crowned broad-trimmed black hat
over black cap ; grey moustache and short beard ; narrow white
ruff; black gown with brown fur tippet over black clothes ; both
hands rest on small table in front of him, on which is a red
velvet-covered and other books ; his r. holds fish-hooks on a piece
of paper, besides others on the table; shield of the arms of
London impaling Nowell above to r. ; inscribed to 1. ALEXANDER
NOWELLUS, SACRAE THEOL. PROFESSOR, STI. FAULT DECAN8 OBIIT 13
FEE: ANN° DOMI 1601 RR ELIZAS 44TO ANN° DECANATS 42 ET AETATIS
SUAE 95 CUM NEQ. OCULI CALIGARENT NEQ. AURES OBTUSIORES NEQ.
MEMORIA INFIRMIOR NEQ. ANIMI ULLAE FACULTATES VIETAE ESSENT.
Brown background ; a fishing-rod hangs against the wall behind.
Canvas 37x28 in. [311.]
This portrait was given to the University by Brasenose College in
1817 in exchange for a duplicate portrait of Lord Chancellor
Egerton presented to the College from the Gallery.
A very similar portrait is at Brasenose College ; l another is in the
possession of Westminster School.
56 QUEEN ELIZABETH (?)
B. 1533; daughter of King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn ;
succeeded to the throne, 1558 ; d. 1603.
Half length, standing facing the spectator, the face turned
slightly to 1. ; wreath of white flowers in hair ; standing lace ruff
open at the neck ; low-cut white satin dress, with farthingale, the
stomacher, and sleeves richly embroidered in gold, red, and blue ;
pearl necklace ; two gauze streamers behind ; dark background.
Panel 41£ x 31 in. [69.]
This portrait was given to John Price, the Librarian, for the
Gallery, by R. H. Beaumont in 1802. The letter presenting it
says : ' it was formerly the property of Mr. William Holt of
Little Mitton in the parish of Whalley, Lancashire, who was my
mother's father. Mr. Paine saw it here, and in consequence of
his advice it was sent to Signor Marchi to be cleaned and
repaired. The breast only was injured so as to require repairs.'
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1904, No. 88.
Engraved by W. Mathews.
1 Reproduced in the Illustrated Catalogue of the Oxford Exhibition of Historical
Portraits, 1904, No. 71.
2 Bodl. MS. Ad., A. 64, fol. 32.
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57 THE SAME
W. Sonmans.
Three-quarters length, to 1. ; fair hair dressed with small pearl
diadem ; lace wheel ruff; cloth of gold jewelled dress and hoop
and large stiff sleeves; necklace and jewel pendant; jewelled
girdle from which a jewel hangs by a ribbon ; her 1. hand holds
a feather fan, her r. hangs by her side ; shields of arms of England
and Jesus College ; dark red curtain background. Canvas 47 x
36 in. [411.]
One of the series of Founders painted in 1670. (See note to No. 1.)
58 GEORGE CLIFFORD, EARL OF CUMBERLAND
B. 1558 ; succeeded as third Earl, 1570 ; educated at Trinity Col-
lege, Cambridge; commanded against the Spanish Armada; K.G.
1592 ; Queen Elizabeth's Champion at all tournaments ; d. 1605.
Bust, slightly to 1. ; long curly brown hair, moustache and pointed
beard; tall black hat, the brim turned up in front and lined
with white, the centre surmounted by a plume of red ostrich
feathers held in place by a jewelled device, perhaps a glove which
he received from the Queen ; fine cambric collar turned over steel
gorget ornamented with gold stars; white silk doublet edged
round shoulders and on sleeves with wide gold braid richly
studded with jewels ; dark background inscribed to r. GEORGE
CLIFFORD EARL OF CUMBERLAND 1588.1 Panel 25f x 22 in. [228.]
This picture first appears in the Catalogue of 1759. It is not
mentioned with that of the Countess in Hearne's manuscript list,
1705. See No. 76.
A similar portrait is in the National Portrait Gallery.
Tudor Exhibition, 1890, No. 317.
Engraved in Lodge's Portraits, by W. T. Fry, iv. 63.
59 RICHARD VAUGHAN
B.1550(?); educated at St. John's College, Cambridge; D.D. 1589;
Bishop of Bangor, 1595, of Chester, 1597, and of London, 1604 ;
d. 1607.
Bust very slightly to r. ; black cap ; fair beard and moustache ;
narrow ruff ; rochet and black chimere ; his r. hand holds small
open vellum book with red edges. Panel 21 £ x 17. [28.]
In the gallery in 1759, probably a bequest of Dr. Rawlinson. It
is unlike the head in Heroologia said to be taken from one in
Oxford.
1 Cf. costume in the whole-length miniature by N. Milliard in the possession
of the Duke of Buccleuch.
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60 SIR JOHN FORTESCUE
Copy by Sidney Hunt.
B. 1531 (?) ; entered Parliament as M.P. for Wallingford, 1572 ;
Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1589 ; Chancellor of the Duchy
of Lancaster, 1601 ; presented books and manuscripts to the
Bodleian Library ; d. 1607.
Three-quarters length, slightly to 1. ; white hair, fair moustache
and short beard; high-crowned black hat; pleated ruff and
wrist ruffles ; black dress with long brown fur tippet ; round
his neck a gold chain from which is suspended an intaglio —
a head cut in relief — framed in silver; his r. hand rests on
head of walking-stick ; the 1. holds gloves with gold-braided
gauntlets ; inscribed SIR JOHN FORTESCUE KT CHANCELLER OF THE
EXCHEQUER AND DUCHE OF LANCASTER MASTOR OF THE WARDROBE
AND OF THE PRIVE COUNCILL TO QUEEN ELIZABETH AND KING JAMES.
HE BUILT SALDEN HOUSE, AND HE WAS SON OF SIR ADRIAN FORTESCUE
KT, GENTLEMAN OF THE PRIVEY CHAMBER TO KING HENRY THE 8TH.
SON OF SIR JOHN FORTESCUE KT BANNERET BY KING HENRY YE 7TH,
GREAT GRANDSON OF SIR JOHN FORTESCUE KT GOVERNER OF BRYE IN
FRANCE UNDER KING HENRY THE 5TH. LINELY DESENDED IN THE 9TH
GENORATION FROM RICHARD FORTESCUE KT BANT TO KING WILLIAM
THE CONQUEROR. Canvas 49 x 39 in. [300.]
Inscribed on back : ' Presented to the Bodleian Library by Thomas
Fortescue Lord Clermont, A.D. 1879.'
From an original portrait of Sir John Fortescue in the possession
of Lord Clermont, copied in 1879.
61 THOMAS SACKVILLE, EARL OF DORSET
Copy from Marcus Gheeraerts.
B. 1536 ; barrister of the Inner Temple ; created Baron Buckhurst,
1567; Earl of Dorset, 1604; E.G. 1589; Chancellor of the
University, 1591; Lord Treasurer, 1599; d. 1608.
Three-quarters length standing slightly to r.; high-crowned, narrow-
brimmed black hat over black cap ; white moustache and beard ;
pleated ruff, turned-back cuffs ; brown fur tippet ; Chancellor's
black and gold gown over black doublet; lesser George on
blue ribbon round neck ; the r. hand holds Treasurer's staff ;
the 1. rests on table with red cover, inscribed below to r. THO:
SACKVILLE EARLE OF DORSET, BARON OF BUCKHURST, LORD HIGH
TREASURER OF ENGLAND, KNIGHT OF YE MOST NOBLE ORDER OF YE
GARTER, ETC. CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD FROM
THE YEAR 1591 TO THE TIME OF HIS DEATH, WHICH HAPPENED IN THE
YEAR 1608. Canvas 50 x 40 in. [78.]
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Given to the University by Lionel Sackville first Duke of Dorset
and son of Charles the sixth earl, in 1735.
Exhibition of National Portraits, 1866, No. 365.
There is a similar picture at Knole.
62 JOSEPH JUSTUS SCALIGER
B. 1540 at Agen ; educated at Bordeaux ; became a Calvinist, 1562 ;
travelled in Italy, England, and Scotland, 1566 ; fought in the
Wars of Religion in France ; subsequently Professor at Leyden,
1593, a great scholar in classical and oriental learning ; d. at
Leyden, 1609.
Bust, facing the spectator ; grey hair, long white beard and mous-
tache ; broad white collar ; reddish-brown cloak with fur tippet
over blue dress ; inscribed above JOSEPHUS, below SCALIGER ;
painted in an oval spandrel resembling a carved frame, similar
to that surrounding the portraits of the Casaubons. Canvas
oval 40 x 43 in. [240.]
Given to the University by William Jacob, M.D. of Christ Church
in 1674.1 It appears to have been painted subsequent to the
death of the subject, perhaps with the Casaubons from old
originals. It is described in Wood's manuscript list of about
1679 as « in his middle age '.2
A similar portrait is engraved by Edelinck in Perrault's Hommes
Illmtres, 1696.
63 THE SAME
Bust, three-quarters to r. ; close-cropped grey hair, grey moustache
and beard ; white collar ; red gown. Canvas 22^ x 19 in. [401.]
This portrait is described in Wood's manuscript list of about
1679, as ' in his old age '. It may be a contemporary and
genuine portrait.2
64 NICHOLAS WADHAM
W. Sonmans.
B. 1532 ; married Dorothy Petre, 1555 ; planned the foundation of
Wadham College, which was carried out by his widow ; d. 1609.
Three-quarters length to 1. ; black high-crowned hat ; short pointed
grey beard, and moustache ; white collar and cuffs ; black dress ;
his r. hand rests on skull on table to 1., the 1. holds sword-hilt ;
shield of arms — those of subject quartering thirteen other coats —
above to 1. ; dark background. Canvas 46 x 36 in. [355.]
One of the series of Founders painted in 1670. (See note to No. 1.)
1 See note to the portrait of Meric Casaubon, p. 57.
2 Wood MSS. F. 2.
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65 THOMAS TESDALE
W. Sonmans.
B. 1547 ; Master of Abingdon Hospital, 1579 ; by his will Broad-
gates Hall was refounded under the name of Pembroke College,
1624; d. 1610.
Three-quarters length, standing to r. ; head almost bald ; moustache
and short beard ; white ruff and cuffs ; black dress ; his r. hand
raised holds small partly opened book, the 1., gloves; above,
shields of arms, to 1., of Pembroke College ; to r., (?) of Tesdale.
Canvas 46x86 in. [357.]
One of the series of Founders painted in 1670. (See note to No. 1.)
66^ HENRY FREDERICK, PRINCE OF WALES
B. 1594 ; the eldest son of James I and Anne of Denmark ; K.G.
1603; entered Magdalen College, 1605; created Prince of Wales,
1610 ;d. 1612.
Half length, standing slightly to 1., almost facing the spectator,
his r. hand resting on his hip ; boyish face ; fair hair brushed
up high off the forehead ; wide gauze collar ; richly embroidered
dress of gold, white, and scarlet ; blue ribbon with lesser George
of the Order of the Garter round neck ; brown background.
Panel 22 x 17 in. [183.]
Given to the University by Humphrey Bartholomew of University
College in 1741.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1904, No. 103.
67 THE SAME
Bust, slightly to r. ; somewhat older ; fair hair ; wide stiff lace-edged
collar ; black satin dress ; ribbon of the Garter round neck, faintly
seen ; dark brown background. Panel 21£ x 15f in. [182.]
Given to the University by Philip Hayes, D. Mus., in 1777.
Exhibition of National Portraits, 1866, No. 413 ; Oxford Exhibition
of Historical Portraits, 1904, No. 104*.
68 JEAN NEYEN
School ofMierevelt.
B. 1560 at Antwerp, sometimes called Francois Ney; became
Roman Catholic, and joined the order of the Reformed Francis-
cans, of which he became Provincial and Commissioner-General in
Spain ; employed in the diplomatic negotiations between Spain
PORTRAITS IN
and the United Provinces which led to the Peace in 1609 ; friend of
Maurice of Nassau ; called the Angel of Peace, d. P1612.
Bust, to r. ; closely cropped dark hair, short brown beard and mous-
tache ; white collar ; black coat ; r. hand holds a cross ; dated to
1. 1603 ^ Canvas oval 30 x 25. [246.]
In the Gallery in 1796 ; the portrait does not appear in the Cata-
logue of 1790.
69 SIR THOMAS BODLEY
B. 1545 ; educated at Magdalen College ; Fellow of Merton
College ; Public Orator, 1569 ; Ambassador to Denmark, France,
and the United Provinces ; knighted, 1604 ; founded and endowed
the Bodleian Library, 1602-9 ; d. 1613.
Marble bust, coloured, in a niche ; the head facing the spectator,
short curly dark hair, moustache and pointed beard ; brown eyes ;
the countenance much lined ; wide lace-edged collar ; embroidered
black dress over inner closely buttoned black vest. The plinth
is inscribed : THOMAS SACKVILLUS DORSET. COMES, SUMMITS ANGLIAE
THESAURAR. ET HUJUS ACAD. CANCELLAR. THOMAE BODLEJO EQUITI
AURATO QUI BIBLIOTHECAM HANC INSTITUIT HONORIS CAUSA P. P.
Given to the University ' for the perpetual memory of the Founder
' and for this his bounty to the public ' by the Chancellor, the
Earl of Dorset, who ' sent it, carved to the life by an excellent
hand at London ', 2 in 1605.
The bust was placed in a niche in the south wall of the library, no
doubt where it now stands. It does not however appear there,
in Loggan's print of the Arts end of the Library published in
1674, although the bust of Charles I now on the opposite wall
is distinctly rendered.
70 THE SAME
Plaster cast (in the Gallery) painted in imitation of the above.
This bust was formerly placed on a window-sill on the staircase,
and was then painted a dark green colour.
1 Among additions and corrections (Annals, ii. 983), Gutch gives the following
inscription as belonging to this picture : ' Vera effigies Rmi P. Joannis Neyen
Antverpiani, Ordinis sancti Francisci Commissarii Generalis, Serenissimorum
Archiducum Austriae, apud illustrissimos ac potentes Ordines Provinciarum
confaederatarum Legati : Miat. xxxnx : MIDCIIX. M. a. Miervelt pinxit, 1607.'
2 Reg. M. a. foL 88 b ; Wood, ed. Gutch, Bod. Lib., p. 925.
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71 THE SAME
Three-quarters length, standing slightly to r. ; the head turned
three-quarters towards the spectator ; brown hair, moustache and
short beard ; white collar edged with fine pointed lace, and cuffs ;
black doublet and trunk hose embroidered transversely with braid,
black cloak edged with black fur ; sword on double belt across
waist ; the 1. hand on hilt, the r. holding fold of cloak ; shields
of arms above to 1. and r. ; dark background. Canvas 43 x 30
in. [331.]
Inscribed on tablets which form part of the structure of the frame,
above : POSTERIS ET AETERNITATI SACRUM. THOMAE BODLAEI QUIC-
QUID MORTALS TABELLA INGENTEMQUE ANIMAM BIBLIOTHECA REFERT.
and below : HOSPES ROGATUS SISTE, BODLAEUMQUE LOCI GENIUM ET
MUSARUM MECAENATEM, ULTRA CAESARES AUGUSTUM QUI BIBLIO-
THECAM MOLEMQUE HANC STUPENDAM CONDIDIT, INTUERE. HOC
VOLEBAM NESCIUS NE ESSES, VALE.
In the Bodleian accounts for 1634-5 occurs a payment of ^?1 10$.
6 for Sir Thomas Bodlie's picture drawne at Venice when he was
Ambassadour for her late Matie Qu. Eliz.'
Frequently engraved ; in Lodge's Portraits, iv. 66.
72 THE SAME
Bust, very slightly to 1. ; grey hair, moustache and closely cut beard ;
broad white collar edged with lace ; black doublet fastened with
buttons down the front ; dark brown cloak ; painted in an oval
spandrel. Canvas 31£ x 27 in. [324.]
In the Bodleian accounts for 1636-7 occurs a payment of £% ' to
a Frenche painter for drawing of Sr Thomas Bodley's picture',
which probably refers to this portrait ; it appears to have been
based upon the marble bust.
Engraved by Michael Burghers.
73 THE SAME
School of Nicholas Hilliard.
Miniature, bust, three-quarters to 1. ; short dark hair, moustache
and short beard ; pleated ruff ; black doublet ; blue background
inscribed in gold letters AN° DNI 1598 AETATIS SUAE 54. Water-
colour 2 x 1£ in.
Given to the University by Canon H. N. Ellacombe in 1897.
30 PORTRAITS IN
74 SIR THOMAS OVERBURY
Cornelius Janssen van Cetden.
B. 1581 ; B.A. of Queen's CoUege, 1598; knighted, 1608; became
involved in various intrigues in the Court of James I, imprisoned
in the Tower ; poisoned by the agents of Lady Essex ; d. 1613.
Bust, three-quarters to 1. ; short hair, slight moustache and beard ;
white lace projecting collar ; black slashed dress ; dark back-
ground ; painted in an oval spandrel ; inscribed AETAT. SUAE
32 A.DN. 1613. D.D. THO. OVERBURY ARMR. DE BARTON IN COM. WARW.
Panel 29£x24£ in. [153.]
Bequeathed to the University by Thomas Overbury of Barton,
Warwickshire, in 1740.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1904, No. 106.
Engraved in Harding's Biographical Mirrour, ii. 57 ; by W.
ley as by Isaac Oliver.
75 ISAAC CASAUBON
B. 1559 at Geneva ; Professor of Greek there, at Montpellier, and
at Paris ; invited to England, 1610, naturalised ; Prebendary of
Canterbury, 1611 ; a great classical scholar and editor ; d. and
was buried in Westminster Abbey, 1614.
Bust, almost facing the spectator ; closely cropped hair, short dark
beard and moustache ; white collar ; black dress ; inscribed above,
Isaac, and below, Casaubon ; painted in an oval spandrel to
imitate a heavy frame. Canvas oval 40 x 31 in. [210.]
Given to the University by William Jacob,1 M.D., of Christ Church
and Canterbury, in 1674.
The copy by P. van der Werff of a similar portrait was engraved
by W. P. Sherlock.
76 MARGARET CLIFFORD, COUNTESS OF
CUMBERLAND
B. 1560 (?) ; youngest daughter of Francis Russell, Earl of Bed-
ford ; married George Clifford, third Earl of Cumberland, 1577 ;
their daughter was the famous Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset,
Pembroke, and Montgomery ; d. 1616.
Half-length, standing slightly to r. ; dark hair, black head-dress
with ornament at back : deep pleated lace ruff high at back, and
1 See note to the portrait of Meric Casaubon, No. 140.
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cuffs ; black pointed bodice elaborately slashed with white and
tied with gold points ; black hooped-skirt ; pearl bracelets ; dark
background ; inscribed MARGARET RUSSELL, COUNTESS OF CUMBER-
LAND, 1588. Panel 36 x 29 in. [227.]
This portrait appears in Hearne's manuscript list written in 1705.
Exhibition of National Portraits, 1866, No. 343; Oxford Exhibition
of Historical Portraits, 1904, No. 109.
77 THOMAS EGERTON, LORD ELLESMERE
B. 1540(?); Master of the Rolls, 1594 ; Lord Chancellor, and created
Baron Ellesmere, 1603 ; created Viscount Brackley, 1616 ; Chan-
cellor of the University, 1610 ; d. 1617.
Three-quarters length, seated to 1. ; black broad-brimmed high-
crowned hat ; white hair, moustache and closely cropped beard ;
falling lace ruff and turned-back cuffs ; scarlet and white-fur
Peer's robe turned back over his 1. shoulder and showing much
white lining ; dark dress ; the 1. hand resting on arm of chair,
the r. holding a folded paper ; chancellor's purse to 1. ; chair-back
to r. inscribed DNS THOMAS EGERTON BARO DE ELLESMERE TOTIUS
ANGLIAE ET ACADEMIAE OXONIENSIS CANCELLARIUS. EX DONO HONO-
RATISSIMI DNI JOHANNIS COMITIS DE BRIDGWATER, EIUSDEM ACADE-
MIAE SENESCHALLI. Canvas 50 x 40 in. [76.]
Given to the University by John Earl of Bridgewater, High
Steward, 1663-86.
In the accounts for 1670 occurs a payment ' for carrying Chancellor
Egerton's Picture, 1/6 \
A similar picture at Bridgewater House is engraved in Harding's
Biographical Mirrour, 1796.
78 DOROTHY WADHAM
W. Sonmans.
B. 1534 ; dau. of Sir William Petre ; married Nicholas Wadham,
1555 ; in accordance with whose wishes she founded and built
Wadham College, 1610-13 ; d. 1618.
Three-quarters length, slightly to 1. ; small black, close-fitting
hat ; close white ruff and white cuffs ; black dress ; her r. hand,
hanging down, holds book, her 1., gloves; above to 1., shield
of arms, Wadham impaling Petre ; dark background. Canvas
46x35 in. [356.]
One of the series of Founders painted in 1670. (See note to No. 1.)
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79 SIR HENRY SAVILE
Marcus Gheeraerts.
B. 1549 ; educated at Brasenose College ; Fellow of Merton, 1565 ;
Warden, 1585 ; Provost of Eton, 1596 ; knighted, 1604. Founder
of Professorships, and Benefactor to the Bodleian Library;
d. 1622.
Whole length, standing on matting, slightly to r. ; black skull cap,
short grey hair, beard and moustache ; white manifold ruff and
turned-back cuffs ; black cloak over black clothes, black stockings
and shoes ; his r. hand holds embroidered and gold-fringed gloves,
his 1. rests on book which lies with a folded paper and a high-
crowned black hat on table with a scarlet velvet gold-fringed
cover to r. ; a velvet chair with gold fringes and curtain to 1.
The paper is inscribed : ' ILLUSTRI VIRO DOMINO HENRICO SAVILLIO
ET DOMINO ET AMICO NOSTRO COLENDO LONDINUM.' Canvas 86 X
50 in. [55.]
Given to the University by Dame Margaret Savile, widow of the
subject, in 1622. Several entries in the Vice-Chancellor's accounts
for 1622 refer to this picture : —
' Solut. pro curtina serica pro effigie Hen. Savile militis ad academiam per Dnam
Savile ejus uxorem missa ut patet per billam Iviii s. 10 d.*
* Solut. pro portatione effigiei Hen. Savile Militis ad academiam iii s.'
* Solut. operario facienti curtinam sericam pro effigie Hen. Savile iii s. iiii d.'
' pro tabula qua fixa est effigies Hen. Savile militis x s.'
Gutch adds the following inscription,1 once on the back of the
picture :—
4 Memoriae charissimi
Mariti Margareta Savilia
Uxor ejus consecravit
Aetatis suae 72
Anno D° 1621
Marcus Garret, fecit.'
80 WILLIAM CAMDEN
Marcus Gheeraerts.
B. 1551 ; educated perhaps at Magdalen College, at Broadgates
Hall, and Christ Church ; Head Master of Westminster School ;
Clarencieux King of Arms, 1597 ; published his Britannia, 1586 ;
founded a chair of Ancient History in the University, 1622 ;
d. 1623.
1 See additions and corrections to Annals, ii. 982.
No. 79. SIR HENRY SAVILE
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IV
No. 66. HENRY PRINCE OF WALES
No. 74. SIR THOMAS OVERBIRY
No. 114. DR. RICHARD TO.MIJNS
No. 127. SIR KENKLM DK;KY
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Bust, three-quarters to 1. ; black skull cap ; grey hair, moustache
and short white beard ; manifold pleated ruff with cords hanging ;
black dress; dark background; in front of the figure is a tablet
on which these lines are written : —
HIC OCULOS SIMILES VULTUSQ., HIC ORA TUERI
POTERIS, NEC ULTRA HAEC ARTIFEX QUIVIT MANUS.
ANNALES, IPSUM, CELEBRISQ. BRITANNIA MONSTRANT
PERENNIORA SAXO & AERE MNHMATA.
QUISQUIS & HISTORIAE CATHEDRAM CONSCENDERIT, ESTO
BENIGNITATIS USQUE MONUMENTUM LOQUAX
Below is inscribed
DEGOREUS WHEAR PRIM. HIST. PR. P. E. POSUIT.
MARCUS GHEERAEDTS PINXIT
Above, GULIELM. CAMDEN. CLARENTI. PRAELECTURAE HISTORIAE FUN-
DATOR MUNIFIC., with shield of arms and motto.
On the frame is a chronogram giving the date of Camden's death.1
Given to the University by Degory Whear, Principal of Gloucester
Hall, the first Camden Professor, 1622-47 ; the portrait was
first hung in the History school, ' over the Pew wherein the Pro-
fessor reads.' It was, in 1796, 'enclosed in shuttings,' and sur-
mounted by another chronogram giving the date of the founda-
tion of the Lecture.1
Exhibition of National Portraits, 1866, No. 473 ; Tudor Exhi-
bition, 1890, No. 461 ; Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits,
1904, No. 124.
81 THOMAS WHITE
Copy by ' Green Junior \
B. 1550 (?) ; educated at Magdalen Hall ; D.D. 1585 ; Canon of
St. Pauls, 1588, of Christ Church, 1591, of Windsor, 1593 ;
Founder among other benefactions of Sion College and of
White's professorship of Moral Philosophy ; d. 1624.
Bust, very slightly to 1., looking at the spectator ; close-fitting
black cap almost covering all hair ; short brown beard and
moustache ; close pleated ruff ; black dress with high sleeves.
Canvas 29J x 24J in. [286.]
Given to the University by Dr. Derham, President of St. John's
College, in 1750, as fia copy by Green, Junior'.
The identity of this portrait is now established by comparison with
one of Thomas White at Sion College. That is a three-quarters
length seated figure, holding fringed gloves and a book with
clasps ; the head, beard, cap and ruff, however, are exact. There
1 Printed in Gutch, p. 879.
890 D
34 PORTRAITS IN
is another similar picture in the Council Chamber at Bristol.
Dr. Derham was, no doubt, through the Merchant Taylors,
officially connected with White's Foundation, — and that he was
specially interested in pictures is proved by his care of the col-
lection at St. John's College.
' Mr. Green the Painter ' occurs constantly in the Vice-Chancellor's
accounts from 1737 onwards as designer or engraver of the
University Almanack. Several members of the family were
employed, and John Green who engraved some portraits, among
others one of William Derham, Canon of Windsor, the father
of the President of St. John's, is probably the painter here called
Green Junior.
82 KING JAMES I1
B. 1566 ; s. of Mary Queen of Scots and Henry Stewart, Earl of
Darnley ; succeeded to the English throne, 1603 ; visited Oxford
and the Library in August 1605, and August 1614 ; d. 1625.
Bust, almost facing the spectator ; brown hair, grey moustache and
short beard, the chin bare ; black hat with two gold buckles ;
full lace-edged ruff; orange-tawny doublet with jewelled but-
tons ; blue ribbon of the order of the Garter with the lesser
George. Canvas 25 x 18| in. [181.]
Given to the University by Humphrey Bartholomew, of University
College, in 1741.
83 LANCELOT ANDREWES
B. 1555 ; Fellow and then Master of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge ;
Dean of Westminster, 1601 ; Bishop of Chichester, 1605, of Ely,
1609, and of Winchester, 1619; d. 1626.
Bust, very slightly to r. ; black cap with ear-flaps, grey moustache
and thin tuft on chin ; white ruff; rochet and black chimere.
Canvas 19 x 15| in. [29.]
Given to the University, according to the Register of Benefactions,
by John Lamphire, M.D., Principal of Hart Hall, in 1675.
A note of the various effects received from Dr. Baylie by Vice-
Chancellor Blandford, upon taking office in 1662, includes ' Bp.
Andrew's picture '.
84 THE SAME
Half length, to r., looking downwards with eyes almost closed ;
1 The statue on the Schools' Tower put up, gilt, in 1619, was entirely re-made
about 1878. Cf. Gutch, ii. 793 ; Annals, i. 353.
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white moustache and narrow tuft on chin ; black cap with ear-
flaps ; close white ruff ; rochet ; black chimere ; inscribed above,
LANC. ANDREWS EPISC. WINTONIENSIS, and below, IONATH. ANDREWS
E COM. WIGORN D.D. Canvas 26 x 21 in. [42.]
Engraved by T. Tuck for G. P. Harding's Portraits of the Deans
of Westminster.
Jonathan Andrews, donor of the portrait, has not so far been
traced.
85 PIETRO PAOLO SARPI
B. 1552 in Venice ; entered the order of Servites, 1565 ; opposed
the policy of the Council of Trent ; Counsellor in Theology
and Jurisprudence to the Republic of Venice, 1607 ; attacked
and wounded by adherents of the Papal party, Oct. 5, 1607 ;
d. 1623.
Half length, to r., the head turned three-quarters towards the spec-
tator; grey hair, moustache and short narrow tuft on chin,
black circular patch on r. cheek close by the ear ; small white
collar and wristband ; black gown ; the r. hand holds a pen ;
inscribed PAULUS SARPIUS VENETUS, CONCILII TRIDENTINI EVISCERA-
TOR. Canvas 30 x 25 in. [249.]
In the Register of Benefactions, under the year 1675, the gift of
this portrait by Dr. John Lamphire, Principal of Hart Hall and
Camden Professor of History, is recorded, 'Dono dedit Pauli
Sarpii Veneti Servitae Picturam talem quam Originalem seu
Archetypon vocamus.'
A portrait apparently very similar to this was sent from Venice by
Sir Henry Wotton as a present to Dr. Samuel Collins, Provost
of King's College, Cambridge, in 1638. Wotton describes it as
'a true picture . . which was first taken by a painter whom I
sent to him from my house, then neighbouring his monastery — '
probably in 1607, in which year two pictures are mentioned in
his correspondence, one in September, the other, with the scar,
in December. Wotton himself invented the title.1
A similar picture without the inscription is in the possession
of Mr. Witchell at Derby, reproduced in the Connoisseur for
May 1910.
1 See for more details concerning Sarpi's portraits L. Pearsall Smith, Life
and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton, appendix, and Notes and Queries, tenth Ser.,
m. 201 and ix. 172. Mr. Pearsall Smith has suggested that the painter alluded
to by Wotton may possibly be his secretary Bilford, who was recommended to
Prince Henry as a portrait-painter in 1611.— Life and Letters, i. 118, 119, and
Calendar of Venetian State Papers under Aug. 25, 1607.
D %
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86 JOHN SPEED
B. 1552 (?) ; historian and antiquary ; foundation member of the
Society of Antiquaries ; published History of Great Britain,
1611 ; d. 1629.
Bust, very slightly to r. ; black broad-brimmed high-crowned hat ;
short white beard and moustache ; white manifold ruff ; open
beneath the chin, black gown and fur tippet ; inscribed 10 SPEED ;
painted in an oval spandrel. Canvas 30 x 25 in. [402.]
In Wood's manuscript list, 1679.
Apparently a copy of the head from a three-quarters length
memorial portrait engraved by Solomon Savery, where Speed is
sitting to r. at a table, holding compasses in 1. hand, the r.
resting on the arm of his wooden arm-chair. The print is
inscribed with a record of his attainments and the date of his
death, July 28, 1629. It is prefixed to the third edition of
Speed's History of England, 1632.
87 RICHARD WIGHTWICK W. Sonmans.
B. 1547 (?) ; educated at Balliol College ; M. A. 1583 ; Rector of
Albury, Oxon., 1595, and East Ilsley, Berks., 1607 ; a benefactor
of Abingdon School ; one of the Founders of Pembroke College,
1624; d. 1629.
Three-quarters length, standing to 1., the head turned towards the
spectator; black skull-cap; white beard and moustache; very
small ruff and cuffs ; black gown ; his 1. hand touches breast, his
r. holds book on table ; shields of arms above, to 1. of Pembroke
College, to r. of Whitewick of Marleston ; dark background.
Canvas 47x36. [358.]
One of the series of Founders painted in 1670. (See note to No. 1.)
88 THOMAS JAMES
Attributed to Gilbert Jackson.
B. 1573 (?); Fellow of New College, 1593; a collector and cata-
loguer of MSS., appointed first Librarian of the Bodleian by
the Founder, 1602-20; D.D. 1614; produced the first Cata-
logue, 1605 ; d. 1629.
Three-quarters length, standing almost facing the spectator ; black
cap with ear-flaps ; grey beard and moustache ; small white ruff;
black gown ; white cuffs ; the 1. hand raises small red-covered
book, the r. hangs by side holding gloves ; inscribed below :
D. THOMAS JAMES S. T. P. PROTOBIBLIOTHECARIUS PRIMUS POST 20
ANNOS OFFICIUM SPONTE DEPOSUIT MENSE MAIO MDCXX. Canvas
47 X 37 in. [380.] In Hearne's manuscript list, 1705.
No. 63. SCALIGER
No. 85. PAOLO SAHPI
GALILEO
No. 164. HEVELIUS
No. 90. EARL OF PEMBROKE
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89 WILLIAM HERBERT, EARL OF PEMBROKE
B. 1580; eldest son of Henry Herbert, second earl, and Mary
Sidney ; educated at New College ; succeeded as third earl, 1601 ;
K.G. 1603; with the King in Oxford, 1605; Lord Chamberlain,
1615 ; Chancellor of the University, 1617 ; Benefactor to the
Bodleian Library ; gave his name to Pembroke College ; d. 1630.
Whole length, standing three-quarters to r. ; dark brown hair,
moustache and peaked beard; deep falling ruff; black cloak,
doublet, breeches, and stockings; gold sword-belt; buff shoes
with large black rosettes ; an oval gold ornament (probably the
lesser George of the Garter) is suspended from a green ribbon
round his neck ; his r. hand holds chamberlain's wand, his 1.
gloves ; hat on table to r. ; red curtain background. Canvas
86 x 50 in. [103.]
In the possession of the University before 1705.1
Sir George Scharf notes a similar picture at Hard wick.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 2.
90 THE SAME
Hubert Le Sueur.
Statue, bronze, whole length, life size ; the head turned slightly to
r. ; short hair ; pointed beard and moustache ; deep lace-edged
collar ; cuirass, the metal plates chased in a running arabesque
design ; thigh armour in front, strapped on over full breeches ;
high boots and spurs, the wheel however missing ; double sword-
belt; scarf over r. shoulder; Garter on knee; the r. hand extended
holds baton ; the 1. on hip.
Marble pedestal inscribed : GULIELMUS PEMBROCHIAE COMES REGNAN-
TIBUS JACOBO ET CAROLO PRIMIS HOSPITII REGII CAMERARIUS ET
SENESCHALLUS ACADEMIAE OXONIENSIS CANCELLARIUS MUNIFICENTIS-
SIMUS.
HANC PATRUI SUI MAGNI EFFIGIEM AD FORMAM QUAM FINXIT PETRUS
PAULUS RUBENS AERE FUSO EXPRESSAM ACADEMIAE OXONIENSIS D.D.
THOMAS PEMBROCHIAE ET MONTGOM.
COMES HONORUM ET VIRTUTUM HAERES
A.D. M DCC XXIII
This statue was made from the design of Rubens for the Earl of
Pembroke, and was originally placed in the outer court at Wilton.
The story of its removal to Oxford in 1723 is told in a footnote to a
Poem on the Bodleian Library by John Walters of Jesus College,
1 Perhaps an early nineteenth-century copy of an older picture.
38 PORTRAITS IN
published in 1780. It rests, the author declares, on nothing but
report, but may well be true ; it is as follows : ' Two gentlemen
of rank in the University dined at Lord Pembroke's. The earl was
assiduous in shewing them the curiosities of Wilton-house. This
statue of his great ancestor was then of the number. The noble
owner hinted to them his intention of sending it a present to
Oxford. One of the doctors, . . willing to confirm his lordship in
so generous a design, proposed to carry the head, which is taken
off and fastened on at pleasure, with them in the chariot lest it
should be injured by a rougher mode of conveyance. Accord-
ingly the head set out that very day for Oxford, where it was
soon after joined by its corps de reserve. ,'
The figure has since stood under the tower built by the third Earl,
and is said to weigh 1,600 Ib.1
The Vice-Chancellor's accounts for 1723 show two items :
Paid expenses about Lord Pembroke's statue £4 16
Paid for iron worke round the Earle of Pembroke's statue £3 2 6
91 THE SAME
H. le Sueur.
Terra cotta head, gilt ; short hair, moustache and pointed beard.
92 FREDERICK V, ELECTOR PALATINE
KING OF BOHEMIA
Dindorf.
B. 1596 ; son of Frederick and Louisa Juliana, daughter of William,
Prince of Orange ; K.G. 1612 ; m. Elizabeth, daughter of King
James 1, 1613 ; elected King of Bohemia, 1619 ; d. 1632.
Bust, slightly to r. ; dark hair, slight moustache ; narrow pointed
beard; lace-edged falling ruff; in armour studded with gold
rivets ; light blue ribbon of the Garter across breast ; dark back-
ground. Panel 23 x 18 in. [422.]
Bequeathed by Dr. Rawlinson in 1755, and placed in the Library
in 1757. (Now placed with the Sutherland Collection.)
93 THOMAS ALLEN
Copy by George Huddesford.
B. 1542 (?) ; Fellow of Trinity College, 1565 ; migrated to Gloucester
Hall ; a distinguished mathematician, antiquary, and collector ;
part of his library passed to the Bodleian ; d. 1632.
1 See also Hearne's Collections, viii. 67-8.
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Bust, slightly to r. ; bald head, white beard and moustache ; large
white pleated ruff; black dress buttoned down the front ; inscribed
[AETA]TIS 87, 1633. Pastel 20 x 16 in. [30.]
A paper pasted on the back of frame bears the inscription :
'E Tab in Aedibus Praesidentis Coll: Trin: Creta, delineavit Geo:
Huddesford, Coll: Nov: So: Anno Dom. 1770, who gave it to
the University in that year.
Aubrey (Lives, i. 27) states that the original portrait was painted
at the request of Dr. Kettel, President of Trinity College,
1599-1643.
94 RICHARD WESTON, EARL OF PORTLAND.
B. 1577; knighted, 1603; employed on diplomatic missions on
behalf of the Palatinate, 1620 ; Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1621 ;
Lord High Treasurer, 1628 ; K.G. 1630 ; created Earl of Port-
land, 1633 ; d. 1635.
Bust, slightly to r. ; very fat face ; short, fair curly hair ; moustache
and pointed beard ; full ruff; brown dress over red under-garment,
which shows in a triangle below the ruff ; Garter ribbon hanging
round neck, the badge not seen. Canvas 20 x 16 in. [41.]
Given to the University by John Peirce of Denton near Cuddesdon,
who died Nov. 18, 1670.
This portrait has previously been called Jerome Weston, the son of
Richard. But his face, though bearing a strong resemblance to
his father, is rather more finely cut, and the growth of the
moustache according to engraved portraits of him is different.
No. 94 resembles the head in the three-quarters length engraved
for Harding, 'after the original by Vandyke in the collection
of the Earl of Verulam.' Richard Weston, moreover, but not
Jerome, was a K.G. The head is rightly named in a manuscript
list of Dr. Ducarel's written in 1740.1
95 RICHARD SIBBES
B. 1577 ; Scholar and Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge ;
M.A. 1602 ; Master of St. Catherine's Hall, 1626 ; D.D. ; author
of Meditations ; d. 1635.
Half length, almost facing the spectator ; conical black cap turned
up round the edge with white pointed lace ; dark hair, grey
moustache and pointed beard ; square falling collar, turned-back
1 MS. Gough, Misc. Antiq. 3.
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cuffs ; black dress ; the r. hand holds small red book, a finger
between the leaves ; painted in an oval spandrel. Canvas 30 x 25
in. [244.]
In the Gallery in 1806.
A similar head, but in a ruff, was engraved by Wil. Marshall, about
1634.
96 BEN JONSON1
B. 1573; educated at St. John's College, Cambridge; M.A.
Oxford, 1619; the dramatist; d. 1637.
Bust, facing the spectator ; dark hair, brown moustache and
closely cropped beard ; white collar ; black doublet. Canvas
oval 29 X 24 in. [134.]
Given to the University by Dr. George Clarke in 1732. The
portrait, originally a head only, has been enlarged to its present
dimensions.
Engraved in a round and sold by Thomas Bakewell.
97 SIR HENRY WOTTON
B. 1568 ; educated at New College, 1584 ; knighted, 1604 ; Am-
bassador to Venice and employed on diplomatic missions,
1604-24; Provost of Eton, 1624; d. 1639.
Half length, standing three-quarters to r. ; grey hair, light brown
moustache and short beard ; pleated ruff; black dress and cloak
lined with brown fur ; his 1. hand holds a fold of his cloak, his r.
a book resting on a table to 1. ; dark background ; inscribed
AETATIS SUAE 52 A° 1620. Canvas 39 X 32f in. [223.]
Given to the University by Edward Stanley, 1780, and at that
time attributed to Alessandro Varotari (b. 1590; worked in
Venice, 1614 ; d. 1650).2
Engraved in Lodge's Portraits, v, No. 93.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 18*.
98 THOMAS WENTWORTH, EARL OF
STRAFFORD
After Sir A. Vandyck.
B. 1593 ; educated at St. John's College, Cambridge ; knighted,
1611 ; created Viscount Wentworth, 1628 ; Lord Lieutenant of
1 In Gutch's Catalogue two portraits of Jonson are enumerated ; the other is
described * as Ben. Johnson the Comedian : . . . Kit Kat' ; one was in the Ashmo-
lean Museum in 1722.
2 Public Orator's speech on presenting Edward Stanley for the hon. degree of
D.C.L., preserved in the Archives.
No. 108. CHARLES I
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Ireland and Earl of Stratford, 1640 ; for a time chief adviser to
Charles I ; attainted by the Parliament, and executed, 1641.
Three-quarters length, standing three-quarters to 1. ; short dark
hair, brown moustache and tuft on chin ; white collar ; in full
armour ; the 1. hand rests on hilt of sword, the r. holds baton ;
dull red curtain background. Canvas 50 x 40 in. [123.]
A tablet on the frame is inscribed THOS EARLE OF STRAFFORD LD
LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND. D. D. HEN. CHEERE, STATUAR: 1734.
The Vice-Chancellor's accounts for 1734 show an item 'Paid for
a frame for Lord Stratford's Picture and carriage, £5 .10'.
It appears to be based upon the portrait with a dog by Van Dyck
in the possession of Earl Fitzwilliam. The accessories are
different.
99 GALILEO
B. 1564 at Pisa ; spent his life in scientific, and especially in astro-
nomical, study and discovery ; the champion of the Copernican
system ; d. at Ascetri, 1642.
Half length, slightly to 1. ; face deeply lined ; grey hair, moustache
and beard ; square white collar, white cuffs ; dark dress ; his r.
hand grasps end of a telescope ; inscribed to L, GALIL.E° GALILJGI.
Canvas 30x25 in. [210.]
A version of the portrait of which another was engraved by Pietro
Bottellini, marked 'Passignano dipinse — II quadro originale
essiste nella galleria di S.A. Principe Poniatowski '.
This portrait was sent expressly from Italy and given to the Uni-
versity in April 1661, by Vincenzio Viviani, who at the ag of
eighteen in 1639 came to live with Galileo and remained with
him till the end, ' the last disciple and biographer of the master.'
He erected the first public monument to him in 1693, and left
by will money and directions for raising the tomb in Sante
Croce, Florence. Viviani d. 1703.
Engraved by Thomas Bakewell.
zoo JOHN BAINBRIDGE
B. 1582; educated at Emmanuel College; M.D. 1614; first
Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford, 1621 ; d. 1643.
Half length, to r. ; long fair hair falling over shoulders and fore-
head ; grey moustache, and short beard ; lace-edged wide collar
and turned-back cuffs ; doctor's black gown ; his r. hand holds
small volume, the cover sprinkled with stars, a forefinger between
the leaves. Canvas 30 x 25 in. [236.]
Bequeathed to the University by the subject, and received in 1648.
PORTRAITS IN
101 LUCIUS CARY, VISCOUNT FALKLAND
B. 1610 (?) ; educated at Trinity College, Dublin ; Viscount Falk-
land, 1633 ; Secretary of State, 1642 ; made his house at Great
Tew a resort of lettered and learned men, especially from Oxford ;
sought death fighting on the royalist side at the first Battle of
Newbury, 1643.
Half length, slightly to r. ; fair hair falling to shoulders, very
slight moustache ; falling collar with tassels ; black dress ; his 1.
hand spread open on his breast ; dark background. Canvas 29£
x 24£ in. [130.]
This portrait is probably the one formerly thought to be that of
Edward Benlowes l mentioned in Wood's manuscript list of
pictures in the Gallery in 1679. The identification with Falk-
land is due to Mr. T. W. Jackson, and is based upon the likeness
between it and that owned by Lord Arundell of Wardour.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 31*.
102 UNKNOWN CAVALIER
School of Sir Anthony Van Dyck.
Bust, three-quarters to r. ; fair hair, falling over shoulders ; slight
moustache ; broad lace collar ; black dress slashed with white ;
dark background. Canvas 29 X 24 in. [171.]
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 131*.
Many names have been suggested for this portrait. To the present
cataloguer it seems to bear most resemblance to one of Henry
Jermyn, Earl of St. Albans, painted as a young man and
ascribed to Van Dyck, at Rushbrooke.2 In the general charac-
ter of the face, the features, growth of hair, and in the dressr
there are points of likeness ; but the Rushbrooke picture exhibits
a man certainly some years younger than the Bodleian head. This
is probably the portrait bought with one of Elizabeth, Princess
Palatine, for 9/-, at Thomas Rawlinson's sale in 1734,3 and given to
the Gallery by Dr. Rawlinson in that year as one of Lucius Gary,
1 The portrait of Benlowes in the library of St. John's College, Cambridge,
is difficult to examine, but the engraved head prefixed to his poems, though
showing some resemblances, is very distinctly a different person from No. 101.
The Cambridge picture is stated to be signed and dated, S. Walter, 1650.
2 Reproduced as the frontispiece to the History of St. James's Square, by
A. I. Dasent, 1895. I owe this suggestion to Mr. T. W. Jackson.
3 Rawl. MS. C. 937, fol. 100, and Catalogue of Sales, Crynes, 808.
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Lord Falkland — the identity being no doubt based upon the
similarity it displays, especially in the slashed dress, with the
Falkland in the Clarendon Gallery.
103 WILLIAM LAUD
? H. Le Sueur.
B. 1573 ; Fellow of St. John's College, 1593 ; President, 1611 ;
Bishop of London, 1628; Archbishop of Canterbury, 1633;
Chancellor of the University, 1630-41 ; codified the Statutes of
the University, 1636 ; beheaded, 1645.
Terra-cotta head, gilt ; shortish hair, moustache, and pointed tuft
on chin.
The Vice-Chancellor's accounts for 1734 show an item ' paid for
two Bustos of Abp. Laud, £2 . 10 \
A similar head, lead, gilt, is in the Library of St. John's College,
dated 1635.
104 THE SAME
Copy from Sir Anthony Van Dyck.
Three-quarters length, standing slightly to 1. ; grey hair, moustache
and tuft on chin ; black square cap ; narrow pleated ruff; rochet
and black chimere ; his r. hand rests on a pedestal, his 1. at his
side ; architectural and curtain background, inscribed with name
and titles of subject and EX DONO NEPOTIS sui D. JOHIS ROBINSON
EQUITIS ET BARONETTI ET TURRIS REGALIS LONDINENIS LOCUM TENENTIS
1674. Canvas 51 x 39£ in. [77.]
In the accounts for 1674 occurs a payment ' to Dr. Yate for the
case and portage' of this picture, ll/-.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 36.
105 THE SAME
Bust, almost facing the spectator ; black cap, white hair ; grey
moustache and tuft on chin ; black chimere over rochet, with a
frill round the neck held in by a black band. Panel 11^ x 9J in.
[325.]
106 FREDERICK HENRY, PRINCE OF ORANGE
NASSAU
B. 1584 at Delft, son of William I of Orange Nassau and Louise de
Coligny ; grandfather of William III of England, stadtholder,
1625, in succession to Prince Maurice ; d. 1647.
44 PORTRAITS IN
Bust, to r., the head turned three-quarters towards the spectator ;
dark curly hair ; slight grey moustache, and tuft on chin ; white
collar with broad edging of lace ; in full armour studded witli
gold rivets ; red sash, worked with a floral pattern in silver and
with a silver edging, passing over the r. shoulder. Panel 17 x 12
in. [35.]
Formerly called Maurice of Nassau and given as such to the
University by Dr. Rawlinson in 1750.
A somewhat similar portrait but less aged, by J. A. Ravesteyn, is
at Longford Castle. Another with the name appeared at
Messrs. Shepherds' in 1910.
107 UNKNOWN MAN. ? PATRICK RUTHVEN
Bust, three-quarters to r., the head turned three-quarters towards
the spectator ; long greyish hair covering the ears, a thin lock
falling forward over the brow ; grey moustache, the ends turned
up, and narrow tuft on chin ; broad lace collar ; in steel armour
with gold rivets ; wide red sash, embroidered and fringed with
silver, across breast from r. shoulder. Panel 17 x 13^ in. [37.]
This portrait has been given the name of Patrick Ruthven, Earl of
Brentford, which appears in Hearne's manuscript list of 1705. But
it does not much resemble either engravings of that personage or
the contemporary whole-length painting, dated 1623, at Skokloster
Castle in Sweden, of which Dr. Cederstrom has been kind enough
to provide a photograph, and which he has compared with a
photograph of No. 107. On the other hand a comparison with
No. 106 reveals a great similarity in size, handling, and costume,
which suggests that it is a fellow portrait to that of Frederick
Henry — perhaps a brother general. It may have been bought
by Dr. Rawlinson with No. 106, and have come to the Gallery
unidentified after his death. If this surmise is correct the portrait
of Ruthven must have perished. Hearne and Gutch record a
long inscription upon it which is nowhere to be found now.
108 KING CHARLES I
Ascribed to Hubert le Sueur.
B. 1600, second son of King James I and Anne of Denmark ;
succeeded to the throne, 1625 ; married Henrietta Maria of
France, 1625 ; visited Oxford, 1636 ; occupied the city, 1642-6 :
beheaded, 1649.
Bronze bust, the head facing the spectator ; long hair ; moustache
THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY 45
and pointed beard; deep turned-down collar; in armour, lion heads
on each shoulder ; Garter ribbon in echarpe over 1. shoulder from
which hangs the lesser George ; on low pedestal of black marble.
Given to the University by Archbishop Laud in 1636, when i Mr.
Edgerlie the carrier ' was paid £2 . 5 . 2 for bringing ' my Lord
of Cant, his bookes, coynes and the King's Statua\ In the
Vice-Chancellor's accounts for 1641 occurs the entry 'To
Mr. Jackson for makeing the nest of the King's picture in the
Librarie, £6 '. Again in 1661 £1 . 12 . 6 was paid ' for polishing
ye rust from ye King's Picture and setting it up againe in the
Librarie '. In August 1636 the Public Orator thanked the King
for the recently revised statutes, endowments, and for the gift of
the King's Statue to the University by Archbishop Laud '.
In a bill of Hubert Le Sueur assigned to 1636, after several items
concerning 'his majesty's image' is the following which may
refer to this bust : ' For reforming a brass head and making for it
a foot of black marble . . . ' (signed) Praxiteles ; Le Sueur.1
In Loggan's print of the Arts end of the Bodleian published, 1674,
this bust is to be seen at the entrance of Duke Humphrey's
Library ; the one of Bodley is perhaps faintly indicated but not
as now opposite that of the King.
109 THE SAME
After Sir A. Van Dyck.
Bust, to r. ; long dark hair, moustache and slight pointed beard ;
white collar ; in armour, the lesser George upon a chain round
neck. Panel \\\ x 9-J in. [36.]
Probably the portrait bequeathed by Dr. Rawlinson in 1755,
described in Register C as a small picture.
no THE SAME
After Sir A. Van Dyck.
Bust, slightly to r. ; long dark hair, moustache and pointed beard ;
white collar ; in armour ; the lesser George hangs from a gold
chain round neck. Canvas 24 x £0 in. [178.]
Probably the portrait, with those of Queen Henrietta Maria and
Prince Henry of Wales, given by Humphrey Bartholomew of
University College, in 1741.
1 Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1636-7, p. 325. A marble bust inscribed
Hubertus Le Sueur Faciebat. 1631 at the Victoria and Albert Museum, seems
to be the original upon which No. 108 and a similar one at the National Portrait
Gallery are based.
46 PORTRAITS IN
111 THE SAME
Copy by Maria Prince after Van Dyck.
Bust, in profile to r. ; long brown hair falling over shoulders,
moustache, narrow beard ; broad white lace collar, blue dress ;
gilt background. With verses in gold from St. Matthew xii
and Lament, v. 16 underneath the portrait. Pastel 14 x 10.
[371.]
Given to the University by Miss Maria Prince in 1722 ' a seipsa
siccis (uti loquuntur) coloribus depictas ', with a companion head
of Christ.
112 HUGO GROTIUS(?)
Jan. Anih. Ravesteyn.
B. 1583 at Delft ; educated at the University of Ley den ; began
his scholar's life by editing Martianus Capella at 17 ; appointed
Historiographer to the United Provinces, 1603 ; visited England,
1613 ; imprisoned for opposition to Prince Maurice, 1618 ; es-
caped and lived in the Spanish Netherlands, Paris, and Sweden ;
d. 1645.
Bust, to r. ; the head turned three-quarters to 1. ; brown hair
touched with grey ; slight brown moustache and beard ; brown
and gold dress ; inscribed HUGO GROTIUS SYNDTCUS ROTHEROD . . .
MENSIS. Panel 18 x 14 in. [32.]
Given to the University by Dr. Walter Charleton in 1674. The
gift is recorded in the Register of Benefactions as follows:
6 Gualterus Charleton M.D. Collegii Medicorum Lond. Socius et
Serenissimi Caroli 2. Medicus Ordinarius, Clarissimi viri Hugo-
nis Grotii Picturam Hugonis ipsius jussu (cum Legatione ad
Car. I fungeretur) delineatam in gratiam D. Theodori Mayerni
Equitis et dicti Regis Archiatrorum Comitis, almae Matri suae
Academiae Oxoniensi in Bibliotheca Publica Bodleiana asser-
vandam dono dedit.1
Dr. Riemsdijk ascribes this painting to J. A. Ravesteyn; he is of
opinion that neither this nor the other portrait No. 113, hitherto
called Grotius, represents the great scholar. Dr. Hofstede de
Groot, however, thinks that this panel is correctly described.
113 UNKNOWN MAN, CALLED HUGO GROTIUS
Bust, to 1. ; the head turned three-quarters towards the spectator ;
brown hair ; small pointed beard and moustache ; white pleated
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ruff; dark dress; inscribed to r. HUGO GEOTIUS Canvas, oval,
22JX174 in. [31.]
Given to the University by Dr. George Clarke in 1727 and entered
in the Register of Benefactions as ' manu inclytissimi Pictoris
Miereveld adumbratum \
114 RICHARD TOMLINS
Marcus Gheeraerts.
B. 1564 (?) ; described in documents preserved in the University
Archives sometimes as 'of Westminster, gent.', but in 1628 'of
Richmond Surrey Esq.'; founded the Anatomy lecture in the
University, 1 623, and further endowed it in 1638 ; benefactor to
Richmond by will dated March 23, 1649 ; d. (?) 1650.
Three-quarters length, standing to r. ; white and gold embroidered
skull cap ; slight white pointed beard and moustache ; white
manifold ruff with two tassels ; white cuffs ; black doublet and
trunk hose ; the 1. hand hanging by side holds gold-embroidered
gloves ; the r. arm rests on pale red velvet-covered table, on which
lies his high-crowned black hat ; above to r., shield of arms ; in-
scribed above, me TOMLYNS ARMIG., and below ANNO DOM. 1628
AETATIS SUAE 64 ; pale red silk curtain to 1. Panel 44 x 33 in. [67.]
On the black frame are the words PII FUNDATORIS EFFIGIES VIVA:
DOMINE COGNOVISTI ME. PSAL. 139.
This portrait, no doubt a bequest, first appears in the Catalogue of
1759. Sir G. Scharf notes it as a good specimen of Gheeraerts''
work.
115 FRANCIS LORD COTTINGTON
After P. van Somer.1
B. 1578 (?) ; Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1629 ; Ambassador to
Spain, 1629-31 ; created Baron Cottington, 1631 ; joined Charles I
at Oxford, 1643; d. 1652.
Bust, facing the spectator ; brown hair, moustache and pointed
beard ; falling lace-edged ruff ; dark dress ; red curtain back-
ground. Panel 17 4 x 1 2 in. [38.]
In the gallery in 1759.
This appears to have been cut down from a larger picture, but is
described as ' a Head ' by Gutch in 1795.
1 This head somewhat resembles the whole-length portrait by Van Somer, but
in that picture the growth of hair is different, and a square collar is worn, not
a ruff.
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116 JOHN ROUSE
B. 1574; educated at Balliol College ; Fellow of Oriel College, 1600 ;
Bodley's Librarian, 1620 ; refused to lend books to Charles I ; re-
sisted the Parliamentarian Vice-Chancellor who desired to pillage
Sir Thomas Bodley's chest in 1648; a friend of Milton; d. 1652.
Three-quarters length, standing three-quarters to r. ; fair hair, slight
moustache and small pointed beard ; square collar with hanging
tassels and turned-back white cuffs ; black dress ; the 1. hand
holds scroll ; the r. a book, the arm resting on folio volume on
red covered table ; inscribed below : D. JOHANNES ROUSE A.M.
PROTOBIBLIOTHECARIUS ELECTUS MENSE MAIO MDCXX OBHT MENSE
APRILE MDCLII. 47 x 37 in. [329.]
No. 35 in Hearne's manuscript list of 1705.
117 JOHN TAYLOR John Taylor.
B. 1580 ; served in the navy , 1596 ; afterwards a Thames waterman,
and wrote squibs and verses on the royalist side ; visited the
Court of Bohemia, 1620, Oxford, 1625 and 1642 ; known as
< The Water Poet' ; d. 1653.
Bust, facing the spectator, the head turned slightly to 1. ; grey
hair falling to shoulders, moustache and tuft on chin ; black
skull-cap ; falling collar ; black dress ; dark brown background ;
signed JOH. TAYLOR PINXIT 1655. Canvas 29 x 23 J in. [145.]
A posthumous portrait given to the University by the painter, who
was a nephew of the subject, with his own picture.
Engraved for Harding's Biographical Mirrour, 1796, ii. 20.
Exhibition of National Portraits, 1866, No. 758; Oxford Exhibition
of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 56.
118 JOHN SELDEN
Ascribed to Sir P. Lely.
B. 1584; educated at Hart Hall; M.P. for the University in the
Long Parliament; member of the Committee to hear appeals
from the Parliamentary Visitors ; a great scholar and writer on
legal, historical, classical, and oriental subjects ; benefactor to the
Bodleian Library; d. 1654.
Three-quarters length, seated three-quarters to r. ; brown hair
falling to shoulders ; slight moustache ; falling collar ; dark
drapery over black dress ; white shirt showing at wrists ; both
hands before him ; dark background. Canvas 40^ x 30| in. [372.]
Concerning this portrait Hearne writes, May 17, 1708 : ' Yesterday
was placed in the Publick Library an excell* Picture of Mr. Selden,
VIII
No. 88. I)R. THOMAS JAMES
No. 152. DR. THOMAS LOCKEY
No. 171. DR. THOMAS BARLOW
No. 125. ARCHBISHOP USSHER
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purchased by ye University : 'tis put in his Library and ye old one
wch was there before is removed into ye Gallery.1
The Vice- Chancellor's accounts for this year show an item : * Paid
for Mr. Selden's Picture to put in ye Library £21 . 10.'
Engraved in Lodge's Portraits, vii, No. 126, and by Vertue in 1725.
Exhibition of National Portraits, 1866, No. 616; Oxford Exhibition
of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 55*.
119 THE SAME
Ascribed to Sir P. Lely,
Bust, to 1., the head turned towards the spectator ; long curly
brown hair ; clean-shaven face ; crumpled collar ; dark dress.
Canvas oval, in square frame, 22| x 18 in. [380.]
Gutch, in describing in 1795 the Selden end of the Library and the
tablet recording his benefaction, adds ' near this inscription is the
Portrait of Mr. Selden by Sir P. Lely, oval'.
Engraved by Faber.
120 THE SAME
Another copy of 119. Canvas oval 20| x 16J in. [40.]
It is of this last version, probably, already referred to above, that
Hearne writes in his List in 1708 : ' 'Twas lately removed into the
Gallery out of that part of the Library where his Books are
plac'd, and in the room of it is put another far better, drawn by
Sir Peter Lilly.' 1
121 JEAN LOUIS GUEZ DE BALZAC (?)
B. 1594 at Angouleme ; man of letters ; member of the French
Academy, 1634; d. 1654.
Bust, very slightly to r., the head leaning to r. and supported on
the 1. hand, the forefinger raised to the temple ; long brown hair
falling over shoulders ; moustache and tuft on chin ; broad white
collar and turned-back cuffs edged with lace ; dark fur-bordered
dress ; ring on last finger of 1. hand. Canvas 19 X 12 in. [39.]
In the Gallery before 1759. It is quite unlike a head of Balzac in
Perrault's Homines Illustres, 1696, engraved by Jacques Lubin.
1 There is another type of portrait of Selden where the nose appears more
aquiline and the face longer, which is represented by examples in the Ash-
molean Museum and the National Portrait Gallery. The earliest engravings
resemble this type. It is difficult, however, to disregard the authenticity of the
Bodleian portraits. Cf. Hearne, Collections, ii. 109 and Letter containing an
account of some Antiquities between Windsor and Oxford, 32.
890 E
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122 PIERRE GASSENDI
B. 1595 at Champtercier in Provence ; philosopher and astronomer ;
published Institutio Astronomica, 1647 ; d. in Paris, 1655.
Bust, three-quarters to 1. ; black skull cap ; white hair ; moustache
and tuft on chin ; white square collar with tassels ; black gown.
Oil painting on copper, 9x6^ in. [167.]
Bequeathed to the University by Dr, Rawlinson, and received in
1757.
123 SIR THEODORE TURQUET DE MAYERNE
/. Wollaston.
B. 1573 at Mayerne near Geneva; M.D. at Montpellier, 1597;
came to England, 1603 ; Court physician ; M.D. at Oxford,
1606 ; knighted, 1624 ; an original and learned writer on medical
subjects ; d. 1655.
Bust, three-quarters to 1. ; black skull cap ; grey moustache and
beard ; white collar ; dark velvet gown with gold frogs across
chest ; thick rope-like girdle round waist ; painted in an oval
spandrel ; inscribed on back, j. w. 1734. Canvas 30 x 25 in. [250.]
Given to the University by Humphrey Bartholomew of University
College in 1735 ; one of the series of eight doctors copied for the
purpose, presented together. The head resembles the portrait in
the collection of the Royal College of Physicians.
124 WILLIAM FREKE
B. 1605 ; educated at St. Mary Hall ; 4 in brotherly love he lived
in inseparate property with his brother Rafe till death, being
joint Lord with his brother Rafe of the mannour of Hannington
... as left by his father Sr Thomas.' He gave a collection of
coins to the 'Schooles in Oxon'1; d. 1656.
Half length, to 1., the head turned to the spectator ; black hair
curling to neck ; thick moustache, slight tuft on lower lip ; plain
square collar with two small tassels ; turned-back cuffs ; dull
green coat buttoned in front and covered with a pattern of black
knots ; outer sleeves of the same, showing full white sleeves be-
neath ; from white string round neck hangs a jewel — a conical
stone set in gold; inscribed to r. AETATIS 40, 1645. Canvas
32 x 26 in. [403.]
1 See a Pedigree of the Freke family, begun by Ralph Freke, the brother of
William, who died in 1684, aged 88, printed from a MS. in the possession of
descendants, in the Ancestor, No. 10, pp. 179-213. For once Gutch errs in
identifying this William Freke with a gentleman-commoner of Wadham. The
portrait has long been anonymous.
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A portrait of William Freke is mentioned by Wood hanging within
the walls of the Tower near the inscription, now vanished, record-
ing his gift of coins, which ran as follows : ARCHIVA NUMMARIA A
RADULPHO & GULIELMO FREKE DE HANNINGTON IN AGRO WILTON
(D. THOMAE, EQUITIS AURATI, FILIIs) NATIVITATE ET IN ACADEMIAM
CHARITATE FRATRIBUS GERMANIS CONDITA AN D'N! 1657.
125 JAMES USSHER
William Fletcher.
B. 1581 ; educated at Trinity College, Dublin ; Fellow, 1599 ;
M.A., 1601 ; Chancellor of St. Patrick's, 1605 ; Archbishop of
Armagh, 1625 ; Bishop of Carlisle, 1642 ; at Oxford, 1642-5 ;
d. 1656.
Half length, seated three-quarters to r. ; grey hair, moustache and
slight beard ; black skull-cap ; pleated ruff; black dress ; his r.
hand holds a pen, his 1. rests upon a pile of books which lie with
an inkstand and papers on a table before him ; greenish-grey
background; inscribed IACOBUS VSSERIUS EPISC. ARMACHANUS,
AETATIS SUAE 64. A. 1644. Canvas 36 x 30 in. [313.]
In the accounts of 1644-5 occurs the following entry, which refers
to this portrait : ' To Home, Executor of the last will and Testa-
ment of William Fletcher ye Painter, for my Lord Primate's
Picture allow'"1 and agreed upon by Mr. Vice-Chanc. & all ye
Curators at ye last Library accompts £2.0. 0.'
Another note written by John Rous, Bodley's Librarian at the
time, adds, ' The picture is in the closet, and yf I be not deceived
is as good a piece for resemblance as hath ben made by any man.
And that was the opinion of the 2 reverend Judges of Irland.'1
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 58.
126 WILLIAM HARVEY
Ascribed to J. Wollaston.
B. 1578 ; studied at Caius College, Cambridge, and Padua ; dis-
covered the circulation of the blood ; with Charles I at Oxford,
M.D. 1642; Warden of Merton College, 1645; d. 1657.
Bust, three-quarters to 1. ; long grey hair, brushed back off fore-
head, grey moustache, and tuft on chin ; face deeply lined ;
white collar with tassel ; black gown ; painted in an oval span-
drel. Canvas 30 x 25 in. [215.]
Given to the University by Humphrey Bartholomew of University
College in 1735, in his set of eight doctors.
This portrait is similar, but not exactly so, to a mezzotint by
McArdell. »
1 See Dr. Macray's Annals of the Bodleian Library, p. 100 f.
E 2
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127 SIR KENELM DIGBY
B. 1603 ; educated at Gloucester Hall and pupil of Thomas Allen ;
knighted, 1623 ; defeated, as a private adventurer, the French and
Spanish fleet in 1628 ; Chancellor to Queen Henrietta Maria,
1644 ; F.R.S. ; a scholar in many fields of learning ; a collector
of MSS. ; benefactor to the Bodleian ; d. 1665.
The younger portrait.
Half length, slightly to r. ; short dark-brown bushy hair ; slight
moustache; broad lace collar with tassels; black and white
slashed doublet with epaulettes, dark cape over the 1. shoulder.
Canvas 29x24 in. [124.]
The type of the miniature by Peter Oliver in the possession of
Mr. Wingfield Digby.1
128 THE SAME
An older portrait.
Three-quarters length, three-quarters to 1. ; smooth lank brown
hair ; head partly bald ; brown moustache and thin beard ;
narrow white collar and shirt cuffs ; full dark cloak ; the r.
hand raised to chest ; to 1. an armillary sphere on a table.
Canvas 44^ x 32£ in. [111.]
Resembles the portrait by Van Dyck in the possession of Lord
Sackville. Engraved by R. Cooper ; Lodge's Portraits, No. 136.
129 THE SAME
Another copy, with the sphere. Canvas 39 x 34 in. [404.] (In
Bodley MS. room.)
130 THE SAME
Another very poor copy on a smaller scale, sphere not seen,
inscribed KENELMUS DIGBEIUS EQUES AURATUS. Canvas 30 x 25 in.
[310.]
It seems to be impossible to decide satisfactorily upon the prove-
nance of these various portraits. One was given by the learned
woollen-draper of London — the friend of Swift and Arbuthnot —
William Pate, in 1692. This, described by Gutch as a half
length by Van Dyck, was placed in the library. In 1760 a second
portrait is mentioned among pictures in the Gallery. In 1780
1 Plate VII of the Illustrated Edition of Catalogue of the Burlington Fine
Art Club Exhibition of Portrait Miniatures, 1889. The companion portrait of
Digby's wife is dated 1633.
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Edward Stanley gave another, also dignified by the name of
Van Dyck ; and in Gutch's Catalogue, 1795, yet another copy is
enumerated, by ' Gerard Zoust,' making four in all. Besides the
Digby1, Stanley presented two other portraits — the Wotton,
and one of the three pictures of Erasmus, and the Register D.
(p. 40) records the placing of these 6 three fine pictures in the
Gallery '. Dr. Macray considers the biggest of the four Digby
canvases [No. 128] to be Stanley's gift. If this is a correct
assumption, the portrait of him as a young man (No. 127)
would have come to us from Pate, and this seems likely from
the appearance and age of the picture. For many years its
identity was lost sight of, and it was only recently re-established
by Mr. T. W. Jackson.
131 JAMES SHIRLEY
B. 1596 ; educated at St. John's College, Oxford, and St. Cathe-
rine's Hall, Cambridge ; lived in Ireland and London ; poet and
dramatist; d. 1666.
Three-quarters length, seated slightly to 1. in an arm-chair ; black
hair falling to neck, slight moustache and tuft on chin ; black
skull-cap ; falling collar ; black dress lined with brown fur ; his
r. hand supports his head, his 1. rests on the arm of his chair ;
blue curtain background, shield of arms above to r., bay wreath
hanging on wall to 1. Canvas 37 x 31 £ in. [146.]
In Wood's manuscript list of pictures in the Gallery in 1679.
Exhibition of National Portraits, 1866, No. 764 ; Oxford Exhibition
of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 92.
132 SAMUEL BOCHART
P. du Bosc.
B. 1599, at Rouen ; educated at Sedan and Saumur ; came to
Oxford and became a reader in the Library, 1662 ; orientalist ;
d. 1667.
Bust, slightly to r. ; black skull-cap ; bald forehead, grey hair,
moustache, and slight tuft on chin ; broad white collar with two
tassels; patterned gown with short cape, buttoned down the
front, but open on the r. shoulder, showing the black dress
1 The Digby portrait given by Edward Stanley was attributed to an unknown
painter called by the Public Orator of the day Zorostio, possibly a corruption of
Zoust (see note to Sir Henry Wotton).
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beneath; painted in an oval spandrel; signed to r. in small
yellow letters p. DU BOSC, 1663, and inscribed
NEUSTRIA SE TANTI MATREM MIRATUR ALUMNI,
QUEM STUPET UT RARUM NUMINIS ORBIS OPUS.
QUICQUID ARABS, PHffiNIX, GRAIUS, DOCUITQUE LATINUS
INCLUSUM VASTO PECTORE SOLUS HABET.
Canvas 30 x 25 in. [245.]
Given to the University by James Gambier, B.A. of Gloucester
Hall, in 1712. l
133 ABRAHAM COWLEY
By, or after, Mary Beale.
B. 1618 ; Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1640 ; settled in
St. John's College, Oxford, 1644 ; cipher secretary to Queen
Henrietta Maria; M.D. of the University, 1657; F.R.S. ;
author of plays and poems ; d. 1667.
Bust, three-quarters to r. ; long fair hair, slight moustache ;
white collar ; loose brown drapery ; dark background. Canvas
28J x 24 in. [133.]
In.the Gallery in 1759.
A similar portrait is in the National Portrait Gallery.
134 THE SAME
Copy from Sir P. Lely by S. Harding.
Half length, to r., the head almost in profile ; long fair hair ; clean-
shaven face ; brown drapery over white shirt open at neck, with
full open sleeves ; his r. hand holds a musical pipe, his 1., the
elbow resting on a piece of rock, a staff over shoulder ; landscape
background, sky to 1. Water-colour on paper, 8 x 7J in. [112.]
The original, once at Strawberry Hill, then in the Peel collection,
and now belonging to Mr. Fairfax Murray, was exhibited in the
Royal Academy in the winter of 1908.
135 THE SAME(?)
Bust, three-quarters to r. ; fair hair falling over shoulders, and
slight moustache ; black skull-cap ; square bands ; black dress ;
greenish-grey background. Canvas 23^ x 18^ in. (oval) [132.]
In the Gallery in 1759, ascribed to Kneller and catalogued ' when
he was older '.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 102.
This is unlike other portraits of Cowley.
1 See Hearne, Collections, iii. 381.
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136 SAMUEL CLARKE
B. 1625; educated at Merton College; M.A., 1648; architypo-
graphus to the University, 1649 and 1658 ; helped with his
knowledge of Oriental languages in the production of Walton's
Polyglot Bible, 1657; d. 1669.
Half length, seated three-quarters to 1. ; brown hair falling to
shoulders ; square bands ; black dress ; his 1. hand holds a pen,
with which he is writing upon a paper, which lies beside a book
and ink-pot, on a table before him ; brown background.
Canvas 29 x 24 in. [209.]
Given to the University by Alicia Danvers, daughter of the subject,
before 1759.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 100.
137 QUEEN HENRIETTA MARIA
B. 1609; daughter of Henri IV and Marie de Medicis; m. to
Charles I, 1625 ; with the Court in Oxford, 1636 ; took
refuge in France, 1644 ; lived in England, 1660-5 ; d. in France,
1669.
Half length, three-quarters to L, dark curly hair ; pearl necklace
and ear-rings ; white chemisette ; low-cut blue dress with scal-
loped edge, festened with jewels ; jewelled belt ; wide sleeves lined
with old gold and caught back with jewels. Canvas 24 x 20 in.
[179.]
Given to the University by Humphrey Bartholomew of University
College in 1741.
138 WILLIAM PRYNNE (?)
B. 1600 ; educated at Oriel College ; published Histriomastix, and
for supposed reflections on the Court sentenced to lose his ears,
1634 and 1637; imprisoned also under Cromwell for political
pamphlets ; keeper of the Records in the Tower, 1661 ; d. 1669.
Bust, to r., the head turned towards the spectator, the r. ear
plainly seen ; brown hair ; slight moustache ; white lace-edged
collar with two tassels ; black dress. Panel 17 X 14 in. [45.]
In the Gallery in 1759, when the portrait is catalogued as Prynne.
It does not, however, much resemble other portraits ; nor does it
seem very probable that Prynne would have been painted before he
became famous as the author of Histriomastix and lost his ears.
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139 JOHN HARMER (?)
Goddard Dunning (?).
B. 1601 (?) ; Demy of Magdalen College, 1617 ; M.B. 1632 ; Under-
master of Westminster School ; Professor of Greek, 1650-60 ;
d. 1670.
Three-quarters length, seated in a red velvet arm-chair, three-
quarters to 1. ; dark hair ; clean-shaven face ; square bands ;
M. A. gown ; the 1. hand rests on arm of chair, the r. on upright
book which stands with two others on a red-covered table to 1. ;
on one side of a calf-bound book, an undecipherable coat of
arms is stamped, surrounded by the words MARPECIA CAUTES ;
pillar to r., dull red curtain to 1. Canvas 50 x 40 in. [121.]
This portrait, now tentatively identified, has long passed as that of
Thomas White, the date of whose death was incorrectly stated
on the tablet. Gutch in his list has the following entry : ' John
Harmer, D.M., painted by Goddard Dunning, 1660 : given by
Pet. Pett Esq., 1695. Kit-kat length.' The Vice-Chancellor's
accounts for 1697 show an item : ' Paid for a Frame and mending
Dr. Harmer's Picture, £1 . 5.'
The donor was perhaps Peter Pett of St. Margaret's, Westminster,
gent., who died in 1709,1 and not Sir Peter Pett, Fellow of All
Souls and Advocate-General for Ireland, who gave some books
to the Library in 1653, for he was knighted by the Duke of
Ormond in 1663. No apparent explanation of the motto — the
end of a line in Virgil's Aeneid vi. 471 Quam si dura silex aut stet
Marpesia cautes — is to be found in any characteristic of the
subject or book by him.
140 MERIC CASAUBON
B. 1599, at Geneva ; came to England, 1611 ; Student of Christ
Church, 1614 ; Prebendary of Canterbury, 1628 ; and Rector of
Ickham, Kent ; published classical commentaries and theological
treatises ; d. and buried in Canterbury Cathedral, 1671.
Half length, three-quarters to r. ; black satin skull-cap over dark
hair, slight moustache and short beard ; white collar with tassels ;
white cuffs ; black gown and scarf over black dress ; holds open
book with both hands ; crimson curtains behind to 1., brown back-
ground ; inscribed MER: CASAUBON. Canvas 40x31 in. [232. J
Given to the University by William Jacob, M.D., of Christ Church
1 See the Ancestor, x. 170.
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and Canterbury, in 1674. This portrait and those of Isaac
Casaubon and Joseph Scaliger have claims to some authenti-
city, since Dr. Jacob was a neighbour and, according to Wood
(Athen. iii. 333), an acquaintance of Meric Casaubon.
It is similar to, but not exactly like, the head in the portrait
copied by Van der Werff, and may be an original work.
141 JOHN WILKINS
Mary Beale.
B. 1614; M.A. of Magdalen Hall, 1634; Warden of Wadham
College, 1648-59; D.D. 1649; Master of Trinity College, Cam-
bridge, 1658 ; Bishop of Chester, 1668 ; First Secretary of the
Royal Society ; d. 1672.
Three-quarters length, seated three-quarters to 1. in a dark blue
arm-chair; long curling brown hair; very slight moustache;
square bands ; rochet and black chimere and scarf; dark yellow
curtain to 1. Canvas 49 x 39| in. [161.]
Bequeathed to the University by Dr. Rawlinson, in 1755.
142 ISAAC FULLER
Isaac Fuller.
B. 1606; studied in France under Perrier; painted historical and
decorative pieces, and a few portraits ; worked for some time
in Oxford and painted Altar-pieces for Magdalen, All Souls, and
Wadham colleges ; d. 1672.
Three-quarters length, seated to 1. sideways in a nail-studded
wooden chair, the head turned facing the spectator ; red velvet
high-crowned cap; long brown curling hair, beard and moustache;
dark green cloak over full white sleeves ; long white scarf round
neck striped with red at ends ; the 1. hand clasping top of chair,
with the first finger out ; r. arm resting on lap, the hand
holding a chalk drawing of two nude children ; signed and
dated on bar of chair is. FULLER AN. D. 1670, brown background.
Canvas 50 x 38 in. [151.]
Given to the University by Dr. Rawlinson in 1734, and no doubt
the picture painted for Dr. Rawlinson's grandfather, who kept
the Mitre Tavern in Fenchurch Street,1 which was bought in at
Thomas Rawlinson's sale for 19/-.2 It is said to have been painted
when the painter was drunk.
Engraved, head only, by T. Chambars.
1 Vertue's MS. Collections, B. M. Add. MS. 21111, 65.
2 Catalogue of Rawlinson's sale, Crynes, 808.
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Walpole says of it : * capricious, but touched with great force and
character.' l
In the University Galleries (now Ashmolean Museum), in 1865.
There is another portrait at Queen's College.
143 EDWARD HYDE, EARL OF CLARENDON
After Sir Peter Lely.
B. 1609 ; B.A. of Magdalen Hall, 1626 ; in Oxford 1642-5 ; Lord
Chancellor, 1658 ; Chancellor of the University, 1660-7 ; created
Earl of Clarendon, 1661 ; his papers, including the material for
the History of the Rebellion, became, chiefly by the benefaction
of his descendants, the property of the University ; d. 1674.
Three-quarters length, seated three-quarters to 1. in an arm-chair ;
fair hair falling over shoulders, slight moustache, and tuft on
chin ; lace-edged collar ; Lord Chancellor's robes ; his 1. hand
rests upon the arm of his chair, his r. holds a scroll ; to 1. is the
Chancellor's purse on a table ; architectural and curtain back-
ground. Canvas 49 x 39 in. [74.]
Given to the University by Dr. George Clarke, 1735.
The head engraved by R. White, 1700.
The Vice-Chancellor's accounts for 1735-6 show an item : ' Paid
Green's bill for taking the Profile of Lord Clarendon's Picture,
£\ . 2.',2 which no doubt refers to the frame.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 109.
A similar portrait is in the possession of Hertford College.
144 THE SAME
Miniature : bust, three-quarters to 1. ; long black curly hair, mous-
tache, narrow tuft on chin ; broad white collar, black coat with
single row of buttons in centre, red cloak over 1. shoulder.
Canvas 2| x %\ in.
On the back is inscribed in ink, ' Edward Lord Clarendon. From the
Earl of Arundel's Collection,' and marked ^- 2^ ; pasted on is
a cutting from Christie's Catalogue referring to this miniature,
and on this in pencil is written : ' Bfc by Bodleian 1 • 10 • [18]95.'
The mark somewhat resembles that used by the Comte de
Caylus (1692-1765).
1 See on Fuller's work, Hearne, Collections, vi. 93.
2 The statue on the south side of the Clarendon Building was put up in Sept.
1721, no doubt by Sir H. Cheere ; Hearne's Collections, vii. 280. See also
No. 334 b.
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145 THOMAS WILLIS
B. 1621 ; M.A. of Christ Church, 1642 ; M.D., and Sedleian
Professor of Natural Philosophy, 1660 ; F.R.S. and F.R.C.P.,
medical writer ; d. 1675.
Half length, three-quarters to r. ; brown hair ; slight grey mous-
tache ; broad white collar ; black gown ; painted in an oval
spandrel. Canvas 30 x 25 in. [275.]
A portrait of Dr. Willis was given to the University by Browne
Willis, his grandson, in 1720 1 ; but No. 145 is more probably one
of the set of eight celebrated doctors copied by J. Wollaston
and given by Humphrey Bartholomew in 1735.
146 JOHN OGILBY
Sir Peter Lely.
B. 1600, employed under Strafford in Ireland; Master of the
Revels, 1662 ; appointed King's cosmographer, and surveyor to
plot out the city of London after the Great Fire, 1666 ; published
important books on the geography of England ; d. 1676.
Bust, three-quarters to r. ; brown hair falling to shoulders, slight
moustache and tuft on chin ; black skull-cap ; falling collar ;
black satin dress ; brown background ; inscribed JOH. OGILVIUS.
Canvas29|x24in. [131.]
Engraved, with slight variation, by P. Lombart.
In the Library accounts for 1662, occurs a payment ' for portage of
Mr. Ogilby's Picture 2s/
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 132.
147 BALDWIN HAMEY
B. 1600 ; M.D. of Leyden, 1626, of Oxford, 1629 ; Benefactor to
the College of Physicians ; d. 1676.
Bust, facing the spectator, the head turned slightly to 1. ; brown
hair, moustache, and closely-cropped beard ; falling white ruff ;
dark dress ; inscribed BALDUTNUS HAMEY, M.D. 1638. B. F. SECULI
DECUS. Canvas oval 26 X 20 in. [238.]
On the back is a long Latin inscription which has been in-
correctly copied by the restorer. It gives the age of the subject
as 38, and the painter as Van Dyck — The original inscription is
printed by Gutch, App. p. 983.
1 Register of Benefactions, 1720.
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Given to the University in 1732, by Ralph Palmer of Chelsea,
nephew of the subject and his biographer.
A similar picture is in the Royal College of Physicians.
148 SIR MATTHEW HALE
B. 1609; educated at Magdalen Hall; M.P. for the University,
1659 ; knighted, and Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, 1660 ;
Lord Chief Justice of King's Bench, 1671 ; d. 1676.
Bust, nearly facing the spectator ; close-fitting black cap over white
coif, leaving a little grey hair uncovered ; slight grey tuft on chin,
and moustache ; white bands, scarlet and miniver robe of Chief
Baron of Exchequer, with SS collar ; painted in an oval spandrel.
Pastel on paper, 9| X 7| in. [46.]
Bequeathed to the University by Dr. Rawlinson in 1755.
A similar portrait is in the National Portrait Gallery.
149 FRANCIS GLISSON
J. Wottaston.
B. 1597 ; M.A. of Caius College, and Regius Professor of Medicine
at Cambridge ; incorporated at Oxford, 1627 ; President of the
Royal College of Physicians, 1667 ; F.R.S. ; medical writer ;
d. 1677.
Bust, nearly facing the spectator; long brown wig falling over
shoulders, clean-shaven face ; white bands ; doctor's black gown
over dark dress ; painted in an oval spandrel. Canvas 30 x 25 in.
[239.]
One of the set of eight portraits of celebrated doctors given to
the University by Humphrey Bartholomew of University College
in 1735.
A copy of a picture in the Royal College of Physicians at the age
of 75, which was engraved by Faithorne.
150 GILBERT SHELDON
Ascribed to Sir P. Lely.
B. 1598 ; Fellow of All Souls College, 1622, Warden, 1636-48 ;
Bishop of London, 1660 ; Archbishop of Canterbury, 1663 ;
Chancellor of the University, 1667-9; built the Sheldonian
Theatre;1 d. 1677.
Three-quarters length, standing to 1. ; brown hair ; moustache,
and tuft on chin ; black square cap ; white square collar ;
1 A statue of Sheldon by H. Cheere was placed on the south front of the
Theatre in 1737. It was originally intended for the interior.
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rochet ; black chimere ; his r. hand touches chest, his 1.
hanging down holds fold of chimere. Canvas 50 x 40 in. [73.]
The Vice-Chancellor's accounts for 1699 show an item 'To the
Warden of All Souls his Servant for bringing Archbishop
Sheldon's Picture to ye Library given by his Master, 10s.' This
Warden was the Hon. L. W. Finch.
151 FRANCIS JUNIUS
B. 1589 at Heidelberg ; Librarian to the second Earl of Arundel ;
a scholar and friend of scholars ; a correspondent of Van Dyck ;
retired to Oxford in 1676, and presented his collection of MSS.
to the Bodleian ; d. 1677.
Half length, three-quarters to 1. ; curly hair to neck ; short beard
and moustache ; turned-down collar ; loose cloak round shoulders
over buttoned coat ; large partly opened book under r. arm
supported by 1. hand, a finger in the leaves. Grisaille on panel,
9|x8Jin. "[326.]
The old frame is inscribed : DNS FRANCISCUS JUNIUS FRANCISCI FILJUS
OPERA ANTONII VAN DYKE.
In the Vice-Chancellor's accounts for 1678-9 occurs a payment to
Dr. Vossius, friend and executor of Junius, 'at the delivery of the
letters of Mr. Junius, the picture of Mr. Junius and a mathe-
matical instrument, <£100.n
Etched and inscribed ' Franciscus Junius Fil. Fr. Nobillismi Com.
Arundeliae etc Bibliothecar: ab Ant° van Dyck aqua forti fe
V aet. 49 '. Mart, vanden Enden exc. ; also by Hollar, with
the date 1659.
In the manner of the portraits prepared for engraving in the
Iconographie of Van Dyck, but not included in that collection,
nor in the enlarged Centum Icones.2
152 THOMAS LOCKEY
B. 1602; educated at Christ Church ; M.A. 1625 ; Bodley's Librarian,
1660-5 ; Canon of Christ Church, 1665 ; d. 1679. 3
Three-quarters length, standing slightly to r., the head turned
to 1. ; long grey hair ; clean-shaven face ; white bands and cuffs ;
black gown ; the 1. hand hanging down by side touches fold of
1 Wood's Life and Times, ed. A. Clark, iv, Additional Notes.
3 See Mr. Cust's Anthony Van Dyck, p. 166 ; the note in Smith's Catalogue
Raisonnt about an older portrait appears to be erroneous.
8 Lockey left, says Wood, 'coins, medals, and pictures and books — a choice
collection.
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gown, the r. holds against his side a large red and gold leather-
bound volume, from which hang long blue ribbons with gold
tassels ; behind to 1. pillar, to r. green curtains ; inscribed DNS'
THOMASLOCKEYS.T.D. AEDIS CHRISTI CANONICUS, PROTOBIBLIOTHECARIUS
i XXVIII SEPTEMBRIS MDCLX AD IX DECEMBRIS MDCLXV, OFFICIUM
SPONTE DEPOSUIT. Canvas 50 x 40 in. [328.]
In Hearne's manuscript list of 1705.
153 NATHANIEL WANLEY
B. 1634 ; educated at Trinity College, Cambridge ; M.A. 1657 ;
Vicar of Trinity Church, Coventry, 1662 ; father of Humphry
Wanley ; d. 1680.
Bust, slightly to 1. ; curly dark hair to neck ; clean-shaven face ;
square white collar with tassels ; black gown ; inscribed above to
1. Mr NATH. WANLEY. Canvas 34 x 25 in. [108.]
Bought by Dr. Rawlinson with a portrait of Dr. Tudway for £1 Is.
at Lord Coleraine's sale, March 1754, and bequeathed to the
University in 1755.
154 SAMUEL BUTLER
Gerard Soest.
B. 1612 ; Secretary to the Lord President of Wales,1660 ; Steward
of Ludlow Castle; published Hudibras, 1663; d. 1680.
Three-quarters length, standing to 1., the head turned towards the
spectator ; long curly brown wig ; clean-shaven face ; white lace
cravat ; black silk cloak showing full sleeves of white shirt ; the
1. hand holds fold of cloak, the r. arm rests on balustrade ; in-
scribed to 1. SAMUEL BUTLER, AUTHOR OF HUDIBRAS. PRESENTED TO
THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD BY Sr GODFREY KNELLER. Canvas
50 x 40 in. [137.]
In the Library accounts for 1701-2 there is a payment ' for carriage
of the Duke of Ormond's and Hudibras pictures <£! . 12 . 8.' (see
No. 344).
Engraved in mezzotint as by G. Soest. The plate is ascribed by
Bromley to Paul van Somer, d. 1694.
Exhibition of National Portraits, 1866, No. 960.
155 THE SAME
Edward Lutterell.
Bust, slightly to r. ; long black curly wig falling over shoulders ;
clean-shaven face; white lace cravat; dark coat, grey back-
ground ; signed to r. with monogram HL
Gouache and pastel drawing, 9f x 8 in. [147.]
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156 ELIZABETH PRINCESS PALATINE
B. 1618 at Heidelberg ; eldest daughter of Frederick V, Elector
Palatine, chosen King of Bohemia, and Elizabeth of England, d.
of King James I ; abbess of the Reformed convent of Herford in
Westphalia, 1667 ; a friend and correspondent of Leibnitz, Des-
cartes, and, in later life, of Penn ; d. 1680.
Half length, standing three-quarters to r. ; large hat, covered with
long pale yellow and dark red feathers ; dark curly hair with
fringe over forehead ; pearl necklace ; low-cut dark blue dress ;
white chemisette ; lower part of the sleeve white slashed with gold
at the elbow, white net to the wrist ; yellow-gold sash caught by
a small brooch on her r. shoulder, passes under 1. arm ; her r. hand
holds a light hunting-spear with tassels ; dark background.
Canvas, 29 x 23J in. [420.]
Given to the University in 1748-9 by Dr. Rawlinson, and probably
the picture bought by him at his brother's, Thomas Rawlinson's
sale1 in 1734, with one of Lord Falkland, ' Elizabeth, daughter
of the Princess Palatine by Vandyck,2 9/-.1* (Placed with the
Sutherland Collection . )
157 OLIVER PLUNKET
Copy after G. Murphy.
B. 1629; entered the Irish College in Rome, 1645; Professor of
Theology, 1657 ; Archbishop of Armagh, 1669 ; suspected of
connexion with the Popish Plot; tried for treason; hanged,
drawn, and quartered, 1681.
Bust, slightly to 1. ; long greyish hair, short beard and moustache,
square bands ; gold embroidered cope over rochet and pallium ;
the cope is fastened on the breast with a morse, from which
hangs an equal-armed cross ; the primatial cross behind to 1. ;
painted in an oval spandrel in which a rope is twisted ; a mitre,
a cross, a book, and a knife with a laurel wreath, appear in the
four corners of the picture outside the spandrel. Panel
13 x 10 in. [47.]
Bequeathed to the University by Dr. Rawlinson in 1755.
A fine mezzotint, apparently of a much better version of this
picture is inscribed : Oliverus Plunkett Archi Episcopus Arma-
chanus Pastor Bonus Animam suam pro ovibus suis posuit
1 See Rawl. MS. C. 937, and Sale Catalogue, Crynes, 808, which is initialed
by Rawlinson with the prices he gave.
2 It has been suggested that the portrait may have been painted by the sister
of the subject, Princess Louise Hollandine. See A Sister of Prince Rupert, by
Elizabeth Godfrey, where No. 156 is reproduced.
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Londmi Diejm°Juln An. D"1 168J.G. Morphcy pinxit. I Van der-
Vaartfe. T. Donbar Ex: A copy of this is in the Sutherland
Collection, in which is also preserved a miniature of Plunket in
cassock and square bands ; pencil on vellum 5^ x 3 J in.
A similar portrait is in the National Portrait Gallery of Ireland.
158 RICHARD ALLESTREE
B. 1619 ; Student of Christ Church ; Canon, 1660 ; Regius Professor
of Divinity, 1663; Provost of Eton, 1665; d. 1681.
Half length, slightly to 1. ; long dark hair ; black skull-cap ; clean-
shaven face ; white collar, dark dress. Canvas 30 x 25 in. [166.]
Bequeathed to the University by Dr. Ralph Bathurst, President of
Trinity College, in 1704.
159 SIR THOMAS BROWNE
J. Wollaston.
B. 1605 ; educated at Broadgates Hall, afterwards Pembroke
College ; M.D. 1637 ; knighted, 1671 ; author of Religio Medici ;
d. 1682.
Half length ; long dark hair, moustache and pointed beard ; white
collar ; black coat ; painted in an oval spandrel. Canvas
30 x 25 in. [213.]
One of the set of eight portraits of celebrated doctors, given
to the University by Humphrey Bartholomew of University
College in 1735 ; no doubt a copy from the picture in the Royal
College of Physicians.
160 CHARLES II
Copy from Sir Anthony Van Dyck.
B. 1630 ; in Oxford with the Court, 1642-5 ; succeeded to the Throne
in exile, 1649 ; restored, 1660 ; married Catherine of Braganza,
1662 ; attended Parliament at Oxford, 1665-6, and 1681 ;
d. 1685.
Half length, facing the spectator ; youthful face ; dark hair
falling over forehead and shoulders; full white lace collar; in
armour, with red-and-gold sword-belt ; 1. arm resting on helmet
on table to r., dark background. Canvas 24 x 19 in. (180.)
In the Gallery before 1759, and probably given by Dr. Rawlinson.
Copied from a whole-length portrait at Windsor, once in the
collection of Charles I.
X
No. 168. SIR GEORGE MACKENZIE
No. 162. SIR WILLIAM DUGDALE
No. 202. JOHN TAYLOR
No. 173. ANTHONY WOOD
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161 THE SAME
John Riley.
Three-quarters length, standing three-quarters to 1. ; long black wig ;
clean-shaven face ; white lace cravat ; in armour ; red cloak over
r. shoulder and round waist ; sword ; the 1. hand on hip, the r.
on upright baton resting on a low, golden-brown stool to 1., on
which also is his helmet ; dark red curtain background. Canvas
50x40 in. [175.]
A sentence in Bishop Crew's will l dated June 24, 1720, appears to
refer to this and three other portraits, although they reached
Oxford in July2 1720, two years before his death. The clause is
as follows : ' I do hereby give unto the said Chancellor Masters
and Scholars of the University of Oxford aforesaid the Pictures of
King Charles the Second, and of Queen Catherine his Consort, and
of King James the Second, and of Queen Mary his Consort, all
drawn by Mr. Riley, and now being in the drawing-room at Steane
aforesaid, to be placed in such places in the said University, as
the said Chancellor Masters and Scholars shall think fit '.
A gratuity of £%>. 2s. to the 'Bishop of Durham's servants for
bringing ye Pictures ' occurs in the Vice-Chancellor's accounts 2 for
1720.3
162 SIR WILLIAM DUGDALE
B. 1605 ; the great antiquary ; Rouge Croix, 1639 ; in Oxford with
King Charles, 1642-6 ; M.A. 1642 ; Norroy, 1660 ; Garter King
of Arms and knighted, 1677 ; bequeathed his collections to the
Ashmolean Museum ; d. 1686.
Bust, very slightly to r., dark greyish hair ; black skull-cap, clean-
shaven face ; broad square collar ; black dress ; long double
gold chain round neck, from which hangs the badge of Garter
King, impaling the arms of Dugdale. Canvas, oval, 80 x 25 in.
[222.]
In the Gallery in 1759.
Engraved in Harding's Biographical Mirrour, 1796, iii. 32.
A very similar portrait with the badge of Norroy is at Blythe Hall.
163 EDMUND WALLER
B. 1606 ; educated at King's College, Cambridge ; sat in many
of the Parliaments of Charles I and II ; a soldier and a poet ;
plotted for Charles I, and was banished ; Commissioner of Trade
1 From a copy in the University archives. 2 Hearne's Collections, vii. 146.
3 A statue of the King in classical armour is on the north front of the
Sheldonian Theatre.
890 F
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under Cromwell, 1655 ; wrote in celebration of the Restoration. ;
d. 1687.
Bust, slightly to r. ; face of a youth of >about 17 ; curly brown hair ;
slight fair moustache, lace-edged falling ruff, with two tassels;
black doublet with narrow white vertical slashings. Canvas, oval,
26 j x 22% in. [287.]
A modern copy, in the Gallery only since 1881.
An engraving of the same head is inscribed ' Roberts del. from a
picture in Lord Chesterfield's collection, 1777 \
A similar picture is also in the possession of the Waller family.
164 JOHANNES HEWELKE (HEVELIUS)
Andreas Stech.
B. 1611 at Dantzig; an astronomer; published drawings of the
moon under the title of Selenographia, 1647, and Machina
CaelestiS) 1673 ; received a pension from John III Sobieski, King
of Poland, 1677; d. 1687.
Three-quarters length, seated slightly to r., the head turned three-
quarters to 1., looking at the spectator ; hair falling in curls over
shoulders; moustache and slight fair beard; white neck-cloth; loose
brown gown over black dress ; the 1. hand touches an astronomical
globe, the r. holds a pen ; the r. arm rests on an open journal, in
which his observations appear to be recorded ; the page is dated
at the top ANNO MD-CLXXVII, and lower down is an entry under the
day Feb. 23 ; the volume lies on a table covered with a black and
red cloth, a sketch hangs from beneath the book ; behind to 1. is
a crimson curtain, to r. three shelves of a book-case. Canvas
50 x 40 in. [202.]
Given to the University by the subject in 16791. Engraved by
Faber.
165 JAMES BUTLER, DUKE OF ORMONDE2
Sir Godfrey Kneller.
B. 1610; succeeded to the Earldom, 1633; Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland 1644-5, 1661-9, 1677-82; Chancellor of the University,
1669 ; created Duke in the English Peerage, 1682 ; d. 1688.
Bust, three-quarters to r. ; brown periwig falling over shoulders ;
clean-shaven face ; lace cravat ; plate armour ; ribbon of the
Order of the Garter across breast ; dark brown background ;
painted in an oval spandrel. Canvas 29 x 24 in. [107.]
1 The Vice-Chancellor's letter of thanks is printed in Hevelius' Exc&rpta
Literis, 190.
a The statue in classical dress on the south front of the Sheldonian Theatre
by Sir H. Cheere was put up in 1737, intended first for the interior.
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On the frame is an inscription recording the gift of the picture to
the University by Sir James Thornhill, 1728.
The Vice-Chancellor's accounts for 1727-8 show an item : ' Paid
expenses about D. of Ormd>s Picture and carrying to and from
London £5 .5.6,' and * Paid to West at London, frame maker,
£W . 15s.', so that it probably had to be sent to London for
framing.
Engraved by G. White.
In the Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 158.
166 THOMAS SYDENHAM
Copy by J. Wollaston, probably after Mary Beak.
B. 1624 ; educated at Magdalen Hall ; Fellow of All Souls College ;
fought on the side of the Parliament, 1642—5 ; the famous
physician and writer on medical subjects ; d. 1689.
Bust, to r., the head facing the spectator ; long grey hair ; square
bands ; light brown coat open over brown waistcoat ; painted
in an oval spandrel. Canvas 29 X 24 in. [276.]
Given to the University by Humphrey Bartholomew of University
College with seven other portraits of celebrated doctors in 1735.
A similar portrait by Mary Beale was given to the Royal College
of Physicians by the grandson of the subject in 1747, which was
engraved by A. Blooteling.
167 THEODORE HAAK
B. 1605 at Neuhausen in the Palatinate; studied at Oxford, a
member of Gloucester Hall; translated part of Paradise Lost
into German blank verse ; ' gave . . . the first occasion and first
suggested' I the meetings at his rooms which resulted in the found-
ing of the Royal Society, 1663; d. 1690.
Half-length, seated to r. behind a wooden table, the head turned
three-quarters to 1. ; long brown hair ; clean-shaven face ; white
neck-cloth ; loose purplish gown ; the r. hand rests on table and
points to a small steel instrument lying beside it ; inscribed above
to 1. in old capital letters MB TEOD. HAAK. Canvas 30 x 25 in. [33.]
Given to the University by Dr. Rawlinson in 1752.
Engraved for the Biographical Mirrour, ii. 108, by Harding, in
1796. A similar portrait is at the Royal Society.
1 Passages of his own Life, by Dr. Wallis.
F 2
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168 SIR GEORGE MACKENZIE
Sir G. Kneller.
B. 1636 ; King's Advocate, 1677; prosecutor of the Scottish Cove-
nanters ; writer on legal and other subjects ; founder of the
Advocates' Library, Edinburgh ; retired to Oxford, 1690, and
admitted a reader in the Bodleian Library ; d. 1691.
Bust, three-quarters to r. ; long dark wig ; clean-shaven face ; white
lace collar ; shirt open at neck ; loose greenish-brown gown.
Canvas, oval, 30 x 25 in. [254.]
The writer of his memoirs (1716) mentions Mackenzie's portrait
* which is in the hands of his intimate friend Dr. Charlett (1655-
1722), Master of University College, to whom Sir George pre-
sented it V This is the picture which came to the Bodleian, for
the Vice-Chancellor's accounts show an item : 'Paid for Dr. Pocock
and Sir Geo. Makensy's Pictures ^10,' in 1723-4, when some of
Dr. Charlett's effects were sold.
169 EDWARD POCOCKE
B. 1604 ; educated at Magdalen Hall and Corpus Christi College -r
M.A. 1626 ; Fellow, 1628 ; Chaplain at Aleppo, 1630-5 ; col-
lected and edited Oriental MSS. ; first Laudian Professor of
Arabic, 1636 ; Professor of Hebrew, 1648 ; benefactor to the
Bodleian ; d. 1691.
Half-length, seated slightly to r. ; white hair falling to shoulders,
moustache, and tuft on chin ; black square cap ; square collar -r
black gown ; both hands before him, his 1. holding an open
Hebrew book ; brown background. Canvas 34 x 29 in. [211.]
In the possession of the University before 1759, and hung in the
Library.
Exhibition of National Portraits, 1866, No. 775 ; Oxford Exhibi-
tion of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 174.
Engraved by W. N. Gardiner.
170 THE SAME
Ascribed to W. Sonmans.
Bust, to 1., looking towards the spectator ; black cap with ear-flaps ;
white hair, small beard and moustache ; white bands ; black
gown. Panel, oval, 29 x 24 in. [288.]
In the Gallery in 1740.2
1 Cf. Hearne's Collections, ii. 56.
2 Dr. Ducarel's MS. list, Gough, Misc. Antiq. 3.
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One of these portraits was bought with that of Sir George
Mackenzie for the sum of ^10 in 1723-4, from Dr. Charlett's
collection.1
171 THOMAS BARLOW
Sir P. Lely.
B. 1607 ; Fellow of Queen's College, 1633 ; Provost, 1657 ; Bodley's
Librarian, 1652-60 ; Bishop of Lincoln, 1675 ; benefactor to the
Bodleian ; d. 1691.
Three-quarters length, seated three-quarters to r. in a large blue
velvet, gold-fringed arm-chair ; black skull-cap ; dark greyish
hair ; shaven face ; white bands and cuffs ; black gown over
black clothes ; the 1. hand points to an open book which rests on
knee supported by the r. ; pillar to r. ; inscribed DNS THOMAS
BARLOW IN COMITATU WESTMORLANDIAE NATUS ANNO MD.CVII. IN
COLL. REGINAE OXON ADMISSUS MDCXXIV. ART1UM MAGISTER MDCXXXIII.
COLL. REGINAE SOCIUS MDCXXXIII. METAPHYS. PRAELECTOR PUBLICUS
MDCXXXV. PROTO BIBLIOTHECARIUS BODLEJANUS MDCLII. COLL. REGINAE
PRAEPOSITUS MDCLVII. S.S. THEOLOGIAE PRO DNA MARGARAETA PRAE-
LECTOR PUBLICUS MDCLX. OXONIAE ARCHIDIACONUS MDCLXII. LINCOLNI-
ENSIS EPISCOPUS MDCLXXV.
Canvas 49 X 38 in. [327.]
In Hearne's MS. list, 1705.
172 CARDINAL PHILIP THOMAS HOWARD
B. 1629 ; third son of Henry Frederick, third Earl of Arundel ; be-
came a Dominican ; chaplain to Queen Catherine, wife of Charles
II ; Cardinal-Priest of St. Cecilia, 1675 ; d. 1694.
Bust, three-quarters to r. ; scarlet cap ; long brown hair ; clean-
shaven face ; white collar ; scarlet cape ; painted in an oval
spandrel. Canvas 30 x 25 in. [247.]
In the Library in 1705.
Given to the University by Dr. Bayley, President of Magdalen
College, 1704-6.
173 ANTHONY WOOD2
Rose.
B. 1632 ; M.A. of Merton College, 1655 ; published Historia et
1 Hearne's Collections, ii. 56.
2 The Vice-Chancellor's accounts for 1724 have an item : « Paid for Dr. Wallis
and Mr. Anthony Wood's Busts, £2.9.6'. But the bust of Wood, which belonged
first to Dr. Charlett and then to his nephew and executor Thomas Rawlins, had
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Antiqmtates Universitatis Oxoniensis, 1674 ; the Athenae
Oxonienses, 1692 ; indefatigable antiquary ; d. 1695.
Bust, as though sculptured, slightly to 1. ; long dark hair ; clean-
shaven face ; greyish-blue drapery round shoulders ; pedestal
inscribed ANTONIUS A'WOOD OXON ANTIQUARIUS. A.D. 16T7. Water-
colour drawing and wash on paper, 13 x 10 in.
An entry in Wood's Diary, under date Aug. 13, 1677, ' To Rose for
my picture £1, ' probably refers to this portrait ; an earlier one
is mentioned in Sept. 1662.
174 UNKNOWN MAN
FORMERLY CALLED THE DUKE OF MONMOUTH
Thomas Forster.
Miniature, bust, three-quarters to r., looking at the spectator ; very
large curly wig over shoulders ; clean-shaven face ; voluminous
white neck-cloth tied and tucked into shirt ; loose drapery ;
signed and dated T. FORSTER D. '98 (the T. and F in a monogram).
Pencil drawing on vellum stretched on oak back, 4 \ x 3 \ in.
The miniature is set in the nineteenth-century binding of a volume
of manuscript letters from the Earl of Clarendon to the Earl of
Abingdon 1683-5 (MS. Clarendon State Papers, 128) and was
given to the Library with them by the Earl of Derby in 1854.
The donor, in a letter accompanying the gift, states that the por-
trait had been in his collection since 1729, and that he thinks it
represents the Duke of Monmouth, who was beheaded in 1685. *
175 ROBERT PLOT
B.1640; educated at Magdalen Hall ; D.C.L. 1671; published the
Natural History of Oxfordshire, 1677 ; Fellow and Secretary of
the Royal Society, 1682 ; first Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum
and Professor of Chemistry, 1683 ; retired into Kent ; d. 1696.
perished, or been lost, twelve years later. In Sept. 1736 Dr. Rawlinson set on
foot inquiries concerning a ' Testa ignota [in the Gallery] which some say is
a Busto of Ant. A Wood '. In Nov. he writes to Rawlins, ' I am sorry we were
not acquainted when Dr. Mather purchased the busts of A. Wood and Wallis ;
the former I should have been glad of, the latter is now in Bodley'. In a
summary of this letter Rawlins notes, * ... I sold A. Wood's Bust to Dr. Mather
ye Vice Chancellor ' (V.C. 1723-8). See Ballard MSS. xix. 38, ii. 8, and xli. 320.
There is no trace of a bust of Wood now in the Bodleian. Dr. Charlett (d. 1722)
had a mask taken of his face after death, and from this Rawlinson ordered a
print by Burghers. Wallis's bust is No. 185. There is no connexion between
this Thomas Rawlins, an antiquary of Pophills, Salford Priors, who died in 1752,
and the medallist of the same name.
1 It does not much resemble other portraits of the Duke.
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Three-quarters length, seated three-quarters to 1. ; grey periwig
falling over shoulders ; clean-shaven face ; lace bands and ruffles ;
scarlet D.C.L. robes over grey dress ; his r. hand holds a scroll,
the arm supported on ledge of piUar, his 1. rests on his thigh ;
architectural and sky background. Canvas 47 x 39 in. [229.]
Given to the University by Dr. Edward Jacob, of Canterbury, 1781.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 189.
Engraved by Harding for the Biographical Mirrour, 1796, iii. 24.
176 PETER SCHUMACHER, COUNT OF
GRIFFENFELD
B. 1635 ; Librarian to the Court of Denmark under Frederick II ;
High Chancellor to Christian V ; knight of the order of the
Elephant ; proposed for the hand of the Princess Louisa Charlotte
of Holstein ; fell from power and was imprisoned in 1676 ; re-
leased, 1698; d. 1699.
Bust to r., the head turned three-quarters towards the spectator ;
long hair ; clean-shaven face ; lace cravat tied with blue ribbon ;
grey coat with grey fur lining and deep cuffs over white and gold-
embroidered waistcoat; blue sash passes over 1. shoulder and
under r. arm, from which hangs the badge of the order of the
Elephant ; attached to the breast with a blue ribbon is a minia-
ture portrait of a lady in a jewelled frame surmounted by a
crown, with a cross at the bottom. Canvas 32 x 25 in. [252.J
In Hearne's manuscript list of 1705.
Perhaps given to the University by Thomas Barlow, Bishop of Lin-
coln, who gave a book to the Library in Dec. 1679, which had
been originally presented to him by the Count of Griffenfeld.
A similar portrait is engraved in Hofman's Hommes illustres de
DannemarTc, 1796.
177 JOHN DRYDEN
B. 1631 ; educated at Trinity College, Cambridge ; B.A. 1654 ;
Poet Laureate, 1670-89 ; d. 1700.
Bust, three-quarters to 1. ; dark periwig falling over shoulders ;
clean-shaven face ; lace bands ; black dress ; dark background.
Canvas, oval, 29 x 24 in. [143.]
Given to the University by George Clarke, 1732.
Engraved by William Evans in 1798, with the note 'probably
painted in his thirty- third year, 1664 '.
Exhibition of National Portraits, 1867, No. 64 ; Oxford Exhibition
of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 187*.
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178 THE SAME
Copy after Sir G. Knelkr.
Half length, to 1., the head turned three-quarters towards the
spectator ; grey hair ; clean-shaven face ; white neckcloth ; green-
ish brown coat ; his r. hand holds wreath of bay leaves. Canvas
35x27£ in. [144.]
Given to the University by Dr. Philip Hayes in 1776.
A similar portrait is in the National Portrait Gallery.
179 THOMAS CREECH
William Sonmans.
B. 1659 ; educated at Wadham College ; M. A. and Fellow of All
Souls College, 1683 ; Head Master of Sherborne School, 1694-6 ;
translator of Lucretius ; d. by suicide, 1700.
Bust, facing the spectator, the head turned slightly to r.
periwig falling to neck ; clean-shaven face ; square bands ; bl
gown ; brown background. Canvas, oval, 29 x 24 in. [141.]
Given to the University by Humphrey Bartholomew, 1733.
Engraved by M. Van der Gucht and R. White.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 186*.
180 KING JAMES II
John Riley.
B. 1633, second son of Charles I and Henrietta Maria ; m. first,
Anne, daughter of Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, 1659, second,
Mary of Modena, 1673 ; succeeded to the Throne, 1685 ; visited
Oxford, 1663 and 1687 ; fled to France, 1688 ; d. 1701.
Three-quarters length, standing slightly to r. under the shade of a
rock, the head turned three-quarters to 1., looking at the spec-
tator ; long brown wig ; lace cravat ; in armour ; red and gold
patterned sash round waist ; blue ribbon over shoulder fastened
under r. arm, from which hangs the lesser George ; sword ; the 1.
hand rests on hip, the r. holds baton ; helmet with red plumes
to 1. ; behind to 1., curtain ; view of naval engagement with flags
flying to r. Canvas 50 x 40 in. [169.]
Given to the University by Nathaniel Lord Crew in 1720 \
181 SIR THOMAS COOKES
Michael Dahl.
B. 1649 (?) ; of Bentley Pauncefort in the parish of Tardebrigg in
Worcestershire; succeeded his father as second baronet about
1672 ; m. Mary, dau. of Thomas first Earl of Plymouth ; at the
1 See note to the portrait of Charles II given by Lord Crew, No. 161.
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suggestion of Bishop Lloyd bequeathed .£10,000 to refound
Worcester College upon Gloucester Hall ; d. 1701.
Three-quarters length, standing very slightly to r. ; long brown wig ;
clean-shaven face ; lace cravat ; full white shirt sleeves ; golden-
brown drapery over purplish coat ; the 1. arm leans on stone ledge
to r., the r. hand on hip ; shield of the arms of Worcester College
below to r. ; landscape seen through a window above ; inscribed
THOMAS COOKESIUS BARONETTUS, DE BENTLEY IN AGRO VIGORNIENSI,
COLLEGIUM VIGORNIENSE FUNDAVIT A.D. MDCCXIV. Canvas 50 X 40 in.
[359.]
182 SIR JOSEPH WILLIAMSON
After Sir Peter Lely.
B. 1633 ; Fellow of Queen's College, 1657 ; Secretary of State,
1674-8 ; second President of the Royal Society ; a diplomatist ;
benefactor to Queen's College ; d. 1701.
Three-quarters length, standing three-quarters to 1. ; dark brown
wig ; clean-shaven face ; lace cravat, full white sleeves, and lace
ruffles ; purplish-grey waistcoat fastened with a jewelled button ;
golden-brown drapery over both shoulders, the folds held at waist
by 1. hand ; r. hand holding partly opened scroll of paper which
rests on red cloth-covered table to 1. ; the table-cover is inscribed,
in white letters, HON. DOM. JOSEPHUS WILLIAMSON, EQUES AURATUS,
REGI CARO. II SECRETARIUS PRINCIPALIS ; DEINDE AD TRACTATUM PACIS
COLONIZE RYSWICI LEGATUS EXTRAORD8. DO. DEDIT JOSEPHUS SMITH S.T.P.
COLLEGII REGIN.E pRAEPOsiTus ; in black letters the name P. LELY
PINXT; architectural and red curtain background. Canvas
50x40 in. [116.]
Given to the University by Dr. Joseph Smith, Provost of Queen's
College, in 1754.
A similar portrait is in Queen's College, and one, bust only, in the
National Portrait Gallery.
183 THOMAS HYDE
B. 1636; educated at King's College, Cambridge; M.A. Queen's
College, Oxford, 1659 ; Bodley's Librarian, 1665-1701 ; D.D.
1682 ; Laudian Professor of Arabic, 1691 ; Regius Professor of
Hebrew, 1697 ; d. 1703.
Three-quarters length, standing almost facing the spectator ; black
wig ; clean-shaven face ; white bands ; black gown ; the 1. hand
hanging down, the r. holding scroll inscribed THOMAS HYDE S.T.P.
PROTOB1BLIOTHECARIUS XI DEC. M.D.CLXV. OFFICIUM SPONTE DEPOSUIT IX
APR. MD.C.CI. Canvas 46 x 35 in. [304.]
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184 JOHN WALLIS
Sir Godfrey Kneller.
B. 1616 ; Scholar of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 1632 ; M. A.
1640 ; D.D. 1654 ; Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford,
1649 ; Keeper of the Archives ; Foundation Member of the Royal
Society; a mathematician ; d. 1703.
Whole length, standing slightly to 1. ; white hair ; clean-shaven
face ; black skull-cap ; square bands ; scarlet robes and hood ; *
black scarf; his r. hand holds a square cap, his 1. before him ;
to 1. is a table upon which is a book, a medal and papers;
architectural and curtain background ; signed G. KNELLER EQUES
FACIEBAT A° 1701. Canvas 94 x 57| in. [234.]
On the frame is an inscription recording the gift of the picture to
the University by Samuel Pepys.
In the Library accounts for 1701-2 there is an item ' for bringing
and placing Dr Wallis's picture £\. 11. 6.'2 The Vice-Chancellor's
accounts for 1727 show a payment ' for new lackering Dr Wallis'
Picture ,£6 \
The portrait was painted in Oxford by Kneller, who came at Pepys1
order to do it (Hearne's Collections, i. 83).
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 163*.
Engraved three-quarters by Faber.
185 THE SAME
Bust, black plaster, facing the spectator ; shaven head and face, no
drapery.
The Vice-Chancellor's accounts for 1724 show an item 'paid for
Dr Wallis and Mr Anthony Wood's Busts ,£2.9. 6.' They were
bought from Dr Charlett's collection through Thomas Rawlins
(see No. 173).
186 JOHN LOCKE
Thomas Gibson.
B. 1632 ; educated at Christ Church ; M. A. 1658 ; resident Phy-
sician to Lord Shaftesbury, 1667 ; F.R.S., 1668 ; lived in Oxford,
1 No doubt the robes of a Cambridge D.D,
2 An autograph letter from Kneller to Charlett dated from London, April 1699,
shows that the portrait was then already in hand : * I was not so happy as to see
you when I was drawing Dr. Wallis' picture, and have heard nothing of you
since, nor Mr. Pepys which I think expects . . to hear you wish to have the
picture placed in the gallery . . he being very much contented with what I have
done.' (Ballard MS. xi. 68.) See also Pepys' Correspondence with Wallis and
Kneller, Diary, ed. 1885, vi, 304 seqq.
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1681-4; published the Essay on the Human Understanding^
1690; d. 1704.
Three-quarters length, seated slightly to r. in a blue arm-chair, the
head turned three-quarters to 1. ; white hair falling to shoulders ;
clean-shaven face ; brown gown lined with grey, open, showing
white shirt at throat and wrists; his 1. hand rests on his knee, his r.
lies on a closed red volume lettered LOCKE OF HUMAN UNDERSTANDING,
which lies on a blue-covered table to 1. ; dark background. Canvas
49x39J in. [122.]
Given to the University by the painter, 1733.1
Described in the Register of Benefactions, ' effigwm . . ad architypum
ab ipso egregie expressam\
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 204*.
187 THE SAME
Small copy of the above portrait. Canvas 18J x 13J in. [48.]
Inscribed on the back, <Recd from the Ashmolean Museum
6. Nov. 1897.' Apparently modern work. It is not in the
Museum Catalogue of 1836.
188 CATHERINE OF BRAGANZA
John Riley.
B. 1638; daughter of John IV, King of Portugal, married to
Charles II, 1662 ; held her Court in Oxford, 1665-6 and in 1681 ;
returned to Portugal 1692 ; d. 1705.
Nearly whole length, seated to r. in a carved oak chair, the head
turned three-quarters towards the spectator; curly brown hair
dressed with pearls ; pearl necklace and ear-rings ; low-cut dark
blue velvet dress, fastened with jewelled clasps, over white satin
bodice and petticoat ; white chemisette and full sleeves ; blue,
ermine-lined mantle; her r. hand rests on ermine fold thrown
over arm of chair ; the 1. on lap ; architectural and red velvet
curtain background. Canvas 50 x 40 in. [174.]
Given to the University by Lord Crew in 1720.-
In the Library accounts for 1719-20 occurs a payment c for bringing
Q. Catherine's picture from London, 8s. 6d. '
1 Dr. Rawlinson wrote, Sept. 2, 1T51 (Rawl. MS. C. 989, f. 174) : 'I have met
with a good picture of Mr. Lock sitting in a chair . . . designed for Alma Mater
if her governors can be persuaded to prefer one who has been and may be
a considerable benefactor than any Revd. Rareeshowman, but this is at their
option.' Apparently, this portrait did not come to the University.
2 See note to No. 161.
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189 CHARLES SACKVILLE, EARL OF DORSET
AND MIDDLESEX
Attributed to Jonathan Richardson.
B. 1638 ; created Earl of Middlesex, 1665 ; succeeded his father as
sixth Earl of Dorset, 1677 ; Lord Chamberlain to William III,
and Regent in his absence ; K.G. 1691 ; published poems, 1701 ;
d. 1706.
Half length, three-quarters to r. ; 'grey periwig falling over shoulders;
clean-shaven face ; lace cravat ; Garter robes, blue velvet mantle
lined with white, over crimson and white surcoat, collar and George
of the Order. Canvas 39 x 32£ in. [324.]
Given to the University by Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford,
in 1723.
The picture is attributed to Richardson in Dr. Ducarel's list of
1740.1
190 HUMPHRY HODY
Attributed to W. Sonmans.
B. 1659 ; Fellow of Wadham College, 1685 ; D.D. 1692 ; Regius
Professor of Greek, 1698 ; eminent Biblical scholar ; founded
Greek and Hebrew Exhibitions at Wadham College ; d. 1707.
Bust, facing the spectator, the head turned three-quarters to r. ;
long brown wig ; white bands ; gown over dark dress. Canvas
30x25 in. [221.]
Given to the University by the widow of the subject about 1708 ;
it is mentioned in Hearne's catalogue, and attributed to Sonmans 1
in Dr. Ducarel's list dated 1740.
A similar head was engraved by M. Van der Gucht after Thos.
Forster and prefixed to Hody's De Bibliorum Textibus. Another
similar portrait was presented to Wadham College by Mrs. Hody.
191 WALTER CHARLETON
J. Wollaston.
B. 1619 ; entered Magdalen Hall, 1635 ; M.D. 1643 ; Physician to
Charles I and Charles II ; a voluminous writer on medical and
antiquarian subjects ; d. 1707.
Half length, facing the spectator ; long black curly hair ; clean-
shaven face ; square collar ; black M.D. gown over mulberry-
coloured coat ; painted in an oval spandrel. Canvas 29 x 24 in.
[277.]
1 MS. Gough, Misc. Antiq. 3.
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Given to the University by Humphrey Bartholomew of University
College in 1735.
A similar portrait in the possession of the Royal College of Physi-
cians, on which this was probably based, was engraved by D.
Loggan ad vivum delin. et sculp., with the date 1679. It is in-
scribed < Effigies Gualteri Charletoni Med. Doct. & Coll. Med,
Lond. Socii Anno Christ. MD-C-LXXVIII setat suae 56.'
192 WILLIAM JANE
William Gandy.
B. 1645 ; Student of Christ Church, 1660; D.D. 1674 ; Canon of
Christ Church, 1678, and of St. Paul's, 1679 ; Regius Professor
of Divinity, 1680; d. 1707.
Bust, three-quarters to r., the head turned towards the spectator ;
flaxen periwig falling to shoulders ; clean-shaven face ; square
bands ; black dress ; brown background ; painted in an oval
spandrel. Canvas 29 X 24 in. [285.]
Inscribed on the back before relining, with the name of the subject
and the signature of the painter, w. GANDY FE. ANNO 1706,* which
have been copied by the restorer.
Given to the University by T. Herring, Archbishop of York, 1744.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 199*.
193 THE SAME
Three-quarters length, seated slightly to 1. in a high-backed blue-
covered arm-chair ; thick grey hair falling to shoulders ; clean-
shaven face ; bands ; scarlet and black D.D. gown over black
cassock ; the r. hand holds a partly-opened volume, the 1. rests
on arm of chair ; column to r. Canvas 50 x 40 in. [360.]
Given, according to the Register of Benefactions, by Peter Foulkes,
D.D., of Christ Church, in 1730. The arrival of the portrait is
recorded (Register D. p. 60) in 1787 as the gift of the late Dr.
Foulkes, probably John the son of Peter.
194 WILLIAM BEVERIDGE
Benjamin Ferrers.
B. 1637 ; educated at St. John's College, Cambridge ; Prebendary
of St. Paul's, 1674, and of Canterbury, 1684; D.D. 1679 ; Bishop
of St. Asaph, 1704 ; d. 1708.
Half length, slightly to r. ; black skull-cap ; brown hair ; clean-
shaven face ; square bands ; rochet ; black chimere. Canvas, oval,
20^x24 in. [49.]
Gutch says : the Bishop ' ever refusing to sit for his picture in his
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life-time,' this portrait was painted after his death in 1708 by
his kinsman Benjamin Ferrers, who was born deaf and dumb.
It was given to the University in 1793 by Edmund Ferrers, M. A.,
of Christ Church.
Exhibition of National Portraits, 1867, No. 166.
A three-quarters length by the same painter ; the head resembling
this portrait was engraved by M. Van der Gucht as a frontis-
piece to the bishop's works in 1729.
195 HENRY ALDRICH
B. 1647 ; student of Christ Church, 1662 ; D.D. and Canon, 1682 ;
Dean, 1689 ; an accomplished architect and musician ; d. 1710.
Bust, three-quarters to r. ; grey hair falling to shoulders ; clean-
shaven face ; falling collar ; black gown ; dark brown background
painted in an oval spandrel. Canvas 29 x 24 in. [314.]
Bought by the University in 1804 from a servant of Mrs. Hobson
of Kneeton Hall, Yorkshire, to whose grandfather, Robert Hobson,
butler of Christ Church, the Dean presented it (statement on a
card attached to the back of the picture).
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 209.
196 THE SAME
Ascribed to Sir G. Knelkr.
Bust, younger face, three-quarters to 1. ; thick flowing grey hair ;
clean-shaven face ; square bands ; black gown ; greyish-brown
background. Canvas oval 30 x 25 in. [152.]
Given to the University by Dr. George Clarke in 1725.
Gutch adds the following inscription :
Sic ferebat ora
Vir egregius Henricus Aldrich, S.T.P.
Dignissimus Aedis Christi Decanus ;
Quod ut posteris innotescat,
Hanc ejus Effigiem Acad. Oxon.
Cujus ingens fuit decus et ornamentum
D. D. Georgius Clarke,
Qui virum diu coluit et amavit,
MDCCXXV
197 HENRY DODWELL
B. 1641 ; scholar and Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin ; Camden
Professor of Ancient History at Oxford, 1688 ; a voluminous
writer ; d. 1711.
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Three-quarters length, seated three-quarters to 1. ; in a red arm-
chair in front of a wooden table ; long grey curling hair ; clean-
shaven face ; white bands, and shirt seen at wrists ; dull red gown
lined with striped material ; both hands rest on an open book to
1., a pen in the r. ; an upright manuscript volume, an ink-pot,
and another book to 1. ; behind to 1., bookshelves ; dark curtain to
r; inscribed to 1. A.D. 1697 .ETAT SUAE 56. Canvas 50 x 40 in. [210.]
Hearne notes1, on Dec. 10, 1719, the arrival of this picture in the
Gallery : ' But it is only a Copy of an original one done at the
Charges of Francis Cherry Esq., and given by Mr. Cherry to
the Library as he several times told me. . . . tho' dying without
will ... it seems this original Picture came afterwards into the
Hands of Mrs. Dodwell . . . and now she keeps the original and
hath sent only the copy . . . which is not much liked.' He
adds on Dec. 25 : * Mr. Dod well's Picture in the Bodlejan Gallery
is a very bad one, not at all agreeable to his primitive Plainness/
198 LAURENCE HYDE, EARL OF ROCHESTER
B. 1641 ; second son of the first Earl of Clarendon ; M.P. for the
University, 1661-79 ; created Earl of Rochester, 1681 ; Lord
High Treasurer and K.G. 1685 ; d. 1711.
Three-quarters length, standing slightly to r., the head turned
slightly to 1. ; long dark brown wig ; clean-shaven face ; white
lace cravat ; in full Garter robes ; part of the motto seen on
1. arm which rests on table ; the r. hand holds Treasurer's wand ;
plumed hat to r., dark background. Canvas 50 x 40 in. [65.]
Given to the University by Dr. George Clarke in 1735.
199 ADRIAN BEVERLAND
Sir G. Kneller (unfinished).
B. 1653, at Middelberg in Zealand ; a classical scholar and pupil of
Vossius; offended the Dutch Government and took refuge in
England ; became a reader in the Bodleian in Sept. 1672,2 and
a Doctor of Laws ; a collector of pictures and coins ; he was ' living
in a crazed condition at London ' in 1706,3 and still living in
1712; died mad.4
Half length, to r., the head turned towards the spectator ; rough
brown hair; clean-shaven face; white shirt open at neck with
' Hearne's Collections vii. 81, 83. 2 Bodleian Admission Register.
:' Hearne's Collections, i. 253»
1 The date of death is usually given as 1712.
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full sleeves ; brown silk cloak with blue linings ; his r. hand holds
small vellum-bound volume, the first finger among the leaves.
Canvas 30x25 in. [242.]
An inscription on the back copied by a restorer gives the signa-
ture of painter, G. KNELLER FECIT: and the date 1689. In the
catalogue of the pictures in the Ashmolean Museum of 1697
occurs this entry : ' Pictura Domini Hadriani Beverlandi quam
ipse huic museo donavit, A° 1692.' It appears in the Bodleian
Gallery, however, first in the Catalogue of 1759.
200 FRANCIS CHERRY
Attributed to Jonathan Richardson.
B. 1665 ; educated at St. Edmund Hall ; lived at Shottesbrooke ; a
nonjuring country gentleman, a collector of books and coins, and
a great friend and patron of Thomas Hearne ; d. 1713.
Bust, to 1., the head turned towards the spectator ; fair wig ; clean-
shaven face ; loosely folded cravat ; dull red coat. Canvas, oval,
29£x24£ in. [224.]
Given to the University by the subject's daughter Anna in 1729.
The ascription to Richardson is an old one, but the painting is
more probably by Sonmans.
aoi QUEEN ANNE
After Sir G. Kneller.
B. 1665, second daughter of King James II and Anne Hyde ;
married George, Prince of Denmark, 1683; succeeded to the
throne, 1702; visited Oxford, 1683, 1688, 1702, and 1708; d.
1714.
Three-quarters length, seated facing the spectator in an oak chair
carved with cupids at the back ; dark hair in curls with ringlet
on each shoulder ; low-cut gold-embroidered dress, bordered with
ermine round neck showing lace chemisette; full sleeves edged with
ermine and ornamented with jewels over lace sleeves ; brownish-
purple velvet mantle lined and edged with ermine ; pearl necklace,
loops on shoulder, and girdle; stomacher of jewels; collar.
George, and Star of the Order of the Garter ; her 1. hand holds
orb on knee, the r. a fold of her drapery ; crown on red-covered
table to r. ; red curtain background. Canvas 50 x 40 in. [171.]
The picture first appears in the Catalogue of 1840.
A similar picture is in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
XII
Xo. 219. DUKE OF MARYBOROUGH
Xo. 165. DUKE OF ORMONDE
Xo. 211. MARY OF MODKXA
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202 JOHN TAYLOR
By Himself.
B. c. 1630 ; a painter and citizen of Oxford ; his earliest authen-
ticated picture dated 1655, others 1658, 1664, and 1670 ;
Bailiff, 1685 ; Mayor, 1695 ; lived in Canditch opposite Balliol
College, and renewed the lease for forty years in 1695 ; Mayor
a second time in 1708 ; d. 1714 (P).1
Half length, seated to r., the head turned towards the spectator;
crisply curling brown hair ; slight moustache, and tuft on chin ;
white collar ; dark dress fastened with a row of buttons ; loose
cloak round shoulders, which he holds with the 1. hand ; signed
JOHN TAYLOR PINXIT, 1655. Canvas 30 x 25 in. [176.]
Given to the University by the painter, together with the portrait
of his uncle the ' Water Poet ', with which in several catalogues
it is confused. It hung for many years on the staircase, and was
in the Ashmolean in 1866.
Engraved for Harding's Biographical Mirrour, ii. 88, 1796.
Exhibition of National Portraits, 1866, No. 759.
203 JOSIAH PULLEN
R. Byng.
B. 1631 ; educated at Magdalen Hall ; M.A. 1657 ; Vice-Principal
57 years ; Vicar of St. Peter's in the East for 39 years ; d. 1714.
Half length, three-quarters to 1. ; white hair falling to neck ; clean-
shaven face ; square bands ; black gown over black dress. Canvas
28J x 24 in.
Given to the University by Matthew Frampton, M.D., Fellow of
Magdalen College, in 1736.
Engraved in Harding's Biographical Mirrour, ii. 36, 1796.
204 JOHN RADCLIFFE
Michael Dahl after Sir G. Kneller.
B. 1650 ; educated at University College ; Fellow of Lincoln College,
1669 ; M.D. 1682 ; F.R.S. ; physician to Princess Anne and to
William III ; bequeathed a great fortune to build the Radcliffe
Camera, Infirmary, and Observatory ; d. 1714.
Three-quarters length, seated slightly to r., the head turned facing
1 The entry of the burial of a John Taylor in the Register of St. Mary
Magdalen parish, on Aug. 24, 1714, may refer to the death of the painter. See
also in the Introduction, p. xxvii seq.
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the spectator ; long grey periwig falling over shoulders ; clean-
shaven face ; long cravat ; shirt ruffles at wrists ; grey velvet coat
with gold buttons ; his 1. hand gloved, holding glove on hip by
sword-hilt, his r. spread open on his breast, the arm leaning on
scarlet-covered table to 1. on which lie his black hat and a paper ;
dark wall background. Canvas 50 x 40 in. [63.]
Tablet inscribed: JOHANNES RADCLIFFE M.D. UNIVERSITATIS OXONIENSI[S]
BENEFACTOR MUNIFICENTISSIMUS. OBIIT NOVE 1714.
LEGAVIT GULIELMUS BROMLEY DE BAGINTO IN COM: WAR: UNITS E CURA-
TORIBUS TESTAMENTI ET AC: OXON: PLUS TRIGINTA ANNOS BURGENS1S.
A copy, bequeathed to the University by William Bromley, M.P.,
D.C.L., Speaker of the House of Commons, in 1732.
The original portrait by Sir G. Kneller, belonging to the Radclifte
Trustees, hangs in the Camera, No. 682. It was engraved by
P. Fourdrinier in 1747.
Another is in the Radcliffe Infirmary.
205 THOMAS SPRAT AND HIS SON
Michael Dahl
B. 1635 ; Scholar of Wadham College, 1652 ; M.A. and Fellow,
1657 ; D.D. 1669 ; Prebendary of Lincoln, 1660 ; Canon of
Westminster, 1680, Dean 1683; Bishop of Rochester, 1684;
F.R.S. 1663 ; wrote a history of the Royal Society, 1667 ; d. 1713.
His son Thomas, Archdeacon of Rochester, d. 1720.
Three-quarters length figures, the Bishop seated three-quarters to
r. in a large arm-chair ; flaxen periwig falling to shoulders ; clean-
shaven face ; square bands ; rochet and black chimere ; his r. hand
rests on the arm of his chair, his 1. points to a book with a large
blue and gold marker, held open on a table before him by his son,
who stands before him slightly to 1.; he has flaxen periwig falling
to shoulders ; clean-shaven face ; and wears square bands and black
gown ; architectural and curtain background. Canvas 52 x 59 in.
[160.]
Acquired by the University in 1818.1
Engraved by J. Smith, 1712.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1906, No. 208.
206 GEORGE HICKES
B. 1642; Fellow of Lincoln College, 1664; D.D. 1679; Dean of
Worcester, 1683 ; nonjuring bishop of Thetford, 1694 ; founder
of the critical study of documents in England ; d. 1715.
1 Note stuck into the Librarian's memorandum book.
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Half length, very slightly to r., looking full at the spectator ; dark
wig ; clean-shaven face ; white bands ; black gown ; painted in an
oval spandrel ; inscribed to r. G. HICKES S.T.P. Canvas 20 x 25 in.
[308.J
Given to the University by Dr. Euseby Isham, Rector of Lincoln
College and Vice-Chancellor, in 1746.
The engraved portrait inscribed ' R. White ad viv. delin. et sculp.
1703 ', after which this one was probably painted, is prefixed to
Hickes's Linguarum Septentrionalium Thesaurus, 1705.
In the Leeds Exhibition, 1868.
207 ROBERT NELSON
Sir Godfrey Kndler.
B. 1665 ; entered Trinity College, Cambridge, 1678 ; F.R.S. 1680 ;
a nonjuror ; published religious works, The Festivals and Feasts
of the Church, in 1705 ; d. 1715.
Whole length, seated to r., the head turned towards the spectator ;
long periwig; clean-shaven face; white neck-cloth and shirt sleeves ;
brown silk cloak lined with blue ; blue stockings, black shoes ;
his r. hand rests on arm of chair, his 1. touches page of an open
book, inscribed FESTIVALS AND FEASTS OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND,
which lies on a green-covered table to r. ; behind, green velvet bro-
cade curtain and two rows of folio volumes. Canvas 93 x 56J in.
[290.]
Given to the University by the Rev. J. Craven in 1769.
The head only engraved by Vertue in 1715.
208 ROBERT FLEMING THE YOUNGER (?)
Attributed to John Closterman.
B. 1660 (?) : educated at Leyden and Utrecht ; minister at the
Scots Church, Founder's Hall, Lothbury, 1698 ; a preacher of
influence ; consulted in the presbyterian interest by William III ;
d. 1716.
Bust, slightly to r., the head facing the spectator ; light curly wig ;
clean-shaven face ; white bands, black gown over black clothes ;
painted in an oval spandrel. Canvas 29£ X 24£ in. [280.]
This portrait first appears in the second edition of Norris's Cata-
logue, 1847, as that of Robert Fleming the elder. It was acquired,
in all probability, from Rawlinson with many other pictures
unrecorded among his gifts. From the same source came a
considerable number of the younger Fleming's manuscript sermons,
papers, and a few books, and it is plain from a note in one of
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these that the two men were acquainted. The shape of the wig,
considered in relation to the age of the subject, and the suggested
attribution to Closterman (1656-1713) also lend weight to an
identification with the younger man of the name. No engraved
portrait of either Fleming appears to exist.
209 JOHN BAGFORD
Hugh Howard.
B. 1650 ; ' bred to the occupation of a shoemaker,' became a collector
of books and prints which passed into the Harleian Library ;
collected the Bag ford Ballads ; d. 1716.
Half length, three-quarters to r. ; long hair, tinged with grey ;
clean-shaven face ; narrow white cravat and wristbands ; snuff-
coloured coat ; r. hand against chest ; inscribed above to 1. with
name of subject, to r. D.D. RICH. RAWLINSON LL.D. Canvas
30 x 25 in. [26.]
Purchased at the Earl of Oxford's sale for £\. Is., and given to the
University in 1745 by Dr. Rawlinson, who believed it to be 6 the
only original picture' of the subject.1 Lord Harley had pur-
chased John Bagford's papers and picture in 171 6.2
210 ROBERT SOUTH
B. 1634; Student of Christ Church, 1651; M.A. 1657; Public
Orator, 1660-7; D.D. 1663; Canon of Westminster, 1663, of
Christ Church, 1670; a witty, eloquent, and unconventional
preacher; d. 1716.
Bust, facing the spectator ; dark curly hair falling to neck and over
forehead ; square bands ; dark dress. Canvas 30 x 25 in. [104.]
Bequeathed to the University in 1704 by Dr. Ralph Bathurst,
President of Trinity, to whom it was given by the subject.3
A similar portrait belongs to the Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical
History at Christ Church.
211 MARY OF MODENA
John Riley.
B. 1658 ; daughter of Alfonso IV, Duke of Modena ; married
James II, 1673 ; the mother of James Edward, the Chevalier de
St. George, 1688 ; fled to France, 1688 ; d. 1718.
Three-quarters length, seated slightly to 1. ; dark hair in curls ;
brown robe lined with blue ; white underdress ; her r. hand rests
on a spaniel lying on a stool by her side, her 1. touches a fold of
drapery; sombre landscape background. Canvas 49 X 40 in. [170.]
1 Ballard MSS. ii. p. 108V and 166. 2 Hearne, Collections, v. 376.
3 See Dr. Bathurst's will, preserved in the Archives.
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Given to the University by Nathaniel, Lord Crew, 1720.1
A similar picture is in the possession of Earl Spencer.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 228.
212 JOHN FLAMSTEED
Thomas Gibson.
B. 1646 ; M.A. from Jesus College, Cambridge, 1674 ; appointed
6 astronomical observator ', 1675 ; the Royal Observatory in
Greenwich Park built for his use, 1676; F.R.S. 1677; d. 1719.
Three-quarters length, seated three-quarters to r. ; flaxen periwig
falling to shoulders, clean-shaven face; square bands; black
gown; his r. hand spread open on his breast, his 1. rests on a
volume, inscribed OBSS CAELESTES AB ANNO 1671 AD 1712, which
lies on a table to r. ; architectural background ; signed and dated
T. GIBSON FECT 1712. Canvas 47-| x 38| in. [204.]
The head engraved by G. Vertue, 1721.
Given to the University by James Hodgson, F.R.S. (1672-1755),
who married Flamsteed's niece and helped his widow to publish
his works.2
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1906, No. 11*.
213 JOSEPH ADDISON e. „ ,„
Sir Godfrey hneller.
B. 1672 ; Fellow of Magdalen, 1697-1711 ; principal contributor to
the Spectator; Secretary of State, 1717; d. 1719.
Half length, slightly to r., the head turned three-quarters to 1. ;
white periwig falling over shoulders ; clean-shaven face ; blue
velvet coat open over white shirt at breast and wrists ; his r.
hand rests on a table to 1. ; warm grey curtain background,
landscape through opening to r. Canvas 35 x 27f in. [142.]
1 See note to portrait of Charles II given by Lord Crew, No. 161.
2 A letter from Dr. Rawlinson to Humphrey Owen, Bodley's Librarian, dated
July, 1752, concerning Hodgson's gift of this and Tycho Brahe's portrait, may
perhaps be quoted at length : ' By next week's waggon directed to Mr. Fletcher
in the Turl will be sent the pictures of Tycho Brahe and Mr. Flamstead from
Mr. Hodgson, as he pretends originals — but as good judges assure me, par-
ticularly Mr. Vertue, who engraved one of Mr. Flamstead for him from the
original, which Mr. Hodgson, tho' he pretends otherwise, keeps — they are good
copies and to be valued as such, but not as originals. That of Tycho Brahe,
he says, was given to Mr. Flamstead by the King of Denmark, but how, sure
I cannot tell; if so, or indeed all ways, that sent you is but a copy of a copy of an
original, now remaining in Denmark, and this I conclude by its being painted on
canvass, as in the times he lived, painting was on board. ... In my own mind
I believe the originals, I mean those from whence these were copyed, are left by
Mr. Flamstead out of Mr. Hodgson's power to give, and with copper-plates and
papers only his property for life.' Rawl. MS. C. 989, fol. 183. Cf. also fol. 180.
A similar portrait is at the Royal Society, given by John Belchier, d. 1785.
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A replica of the Kit Kat Club picture painted by Kneller for Jacob
Tonson, in 1697, in the possession of his representative, Mr. Baker,
of Bayfordbury, Herts. It was given to the University by
Charlotte Addison, daughter of the subject,1 in 1750.
Engraved by J. Simon.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 6.
214 JOHN HUDSON
W . Sonmans.
B. 1662 ; M. A. of Queen's College, 1684 ; Fellow of University,
1686 ; Bodley's Librarian, 1701 ; Principal of St. Mary Hall,
1712; d. 1719.
Three-quarters length, standing slightly to 1. ; light brown periwig ;
clean-shaven face ; white bands and cuffs ; black gown over black
cassock ; his 1. hand rests on hip, his right holds a book against
his side ; red curtain to r., to 1. a balcony with pillar, landscape
with trees beyond ; inscribed on base of pillar, IOANNES HUDSON
S.T.D. PROTOBIBLIOTHECARIUS ELECTUS XI DIE APEILIS A.D. MDCCI
OBIIT xxvn DIE NOVEMBRIS A.D. MDCC xix. Canvas 48 x 40 in.
[303.]. Given to the University by his widow. A payment for
the carriage of 'Dr. Hudson's Picture' occurs in the Vice-
Chancellor's accounts for 1720.
Engraved without the landscape by Simon Gribelin ; inscribed
SONMANS PINXIT.
215 NATHANIEL, BARON CREW
Sir Godfrey Kneller.
B. 1633 ; Fellow of Lincoln College, 1656 ; Rector, 1668-72 ;
Bishop of Oxford, 1671, of Durham, 1674 ; succeeded as third
baron, 1697 ; benefactor to the University and to Lincoln
College; d. 1721.
Three-quarters length, standing three-quarters to 1. ; grey hair
falling over shoulders ; clean-shaven face ; square bands ; scarlet
and miniver Peer's robes ; his r. hand holds his coronet, his 1.
held before him ; architectural background, mitre in niche to 1. ;
signed and dated G. KNELLER F. 1698. Canvas 49 X 39J in. [64.]
On the frame is an inscription recording the bequest of the picture
to the University by William Lupton, one of the executors of
Lord Crew's will, in 1726.
Engraved by J. Faber, the younger, 1727.
Exhibition of National Portraits, 1867, No. 6 ; Oxford Exhibition
of Historical Portraits, 1906, No. 18*.
1 Register of Magdalen College, iii. 92.
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216 THE SAME1
Three-quarters length, standing three-quarters to 1. ; black skull-
cap ; long dark hair ; clean-shaven face ; white bands ; rochet
and black chimere ; his 1. holds a fold of the chimere, his r. rests
on a red-covered table to 1., on which lies a mitre and crozier ;
pillar behind. Canvas 50 x 40 in. [278.]
Given to the University by the subject in 1720.2
A similar portrait is at Lincoln College.
217 MATTHEW PRIOR
Jonathan Richardson the Elder.
B. 1664 ; Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, 1688 ; Secretary
to the Embassy at the Hague and Paris, 1689-99; diplomatist and
poet ; an adherent of Harley, Lord Oxford; d. 1721.
Three-quarters length, seated slightly to 1., the head turned three-
quarters to r. ; clean-shaven face ; black cap ; white cravat and
lace ruffles ; black coat, his 1. hand thrust into the breast, his r.,
holding a pen, rests on a table to 1. ; warm grey background.
Canvas 49 x 39f in. [139.]
Given to the University by Edward, Lord Harley,3 1723, a dupli-
cate of the picture at Welbeck, painted for Lord Harley by
Richardson.
Engraved by G. Vertue, 1719, the head only by J. Simon, with the
date 1718.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1906, No. 14.
218 SIR GILBERT DOLBEN
B. 1658 ; educated at Christ Church ; entered Parliament as M.P.
for Ripon, 1685 ; Puisne Judge in the Irish Court of Common
Pleas, 1701 ; created a Baronet, 1704 ; d. 1722.
Whole length, standing facing the spectator, the head turned three-
quarters to r. ; long grey wig falling over shoulders ; square
bands ; scarlet and miniver judge's robes held in round waist
with black sash tied with a bow in front ; black object, perhaps
a cap, hanging from it on his r. side ; his r. hand on his hip,
his 1. points to two books on a blue velvet covered table to r.
Canvas 94 x 51 in. [164.]
Not in the Gallery till between 1806 and 1840 ; perhaps given
1 Said, in a note by Dr. Bliss, to be a copy by Sonmans from an original by
Kneller at Crewe Hall.
2 See Hearne, Collections, vii. 146, 280, and note to No. 161.
8 Afterwards the 2nd Earl of Oxford. His wife was the heiress of the Duke
of Newcastle.
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with the portrait of Sir William Dolben in 1818.1 A three-
quarters length portrait resembling this is at Christ Church.
219 JOHN CHURCHILL, DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH
John Michael Rysbrack.
B. 1650; the great soldier; created Duke of Marlborough, 1702;
was granted Woodstock Manor and money for building Blenheim
Palace, Oxfordshire, by Parliament, 1705 ; d. 1722.
Bust, marble ; the head, crowned with a laurel wreath, bound with
ribbon, turned slightly to r. ; hair short and curly ; clean-shaven
face ; eyeballs slightly incised ; loose drapery held together with
a round clasp on r. breast over classical armour ending in a square
band about the neck; a lion's head with mane on r. shoulder.
A star of the order of the Garter on 1. breast.
Plinth inscribed with name, titles, etc., of the subject, and
ILLUSTRISSIMA VIDUA, DIGNA TALI TANTOQ} VIRO, D!D: ACADEMIAE
OXONIENSI A.D. MDCCxxx. At the back is a list of battles.2
The Vice-Chancellor's accounts for 1730 show a payment of 12/- to
Dr. Clarke for the carriage of this bust.
In 1780 the bust stood in one of the arches of the Tower.
220 WILLIAM, EARL COWPER
B. 1665 (?) ; King's Counsel, 1689 ; Keeper of the Great Seal, 1705 ;
created Baron Cowper, 1706; Lord Chancellor, 1707-10 and
1714-18 ; Earl, 1718 ; d. 1723.
Half length, three-quarters to r. ; long flowing light-brown wig ;
clean-shaven face ; long lace bands and ruffles ; Lord Chancellor's
black brocade and gold robes over black clothes ; his r. hand
partly seen, his 1., holding edge of robe ; part of Chancellor's
purse seen to the 1. Canvas 34J x 29 in. [406.]
Bequeathed by Dr. Rawlinson in 1755 as the Earl of Shaftesbury.
221 ROBERT CONNY
'Alexr Vanderhagen.
B. 1655 (?)s; educated at Magdalen College; B.A. 1676; M.D.
1 Minutes of the Hebdomadal Board.
2 See Gutch, p. 966. The marble tablet on which the list is cut, originally
set in the pedestal of this bust, is now in the Ashmolean Museum.
3 Both the Dictionary of National Biography and Foster, in the Alumni, give
the dates of Conny's birth and death incorrectly. His tomb in the north aisle
of the church of St. Nicholas, Rochester, bears a long inscription, which records
the death of his wife on May 5 and of himself on May 25 in the year 1723, and
their respective ages. The Register of Benefactions incorrectly records the gift as
from the widow.
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1685 ; Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians ; naval phy-
sician at Deal, 1692 ; d. 1723.
Three-quarters length, seated to r. in a red arm-chair, the head
turned slightly to 1. ; long powdered wig ; clean-shaven face ;
lace-edged bands and ruffles ; doctor's black gown over grey coat
and waistcoat ; arms resting on elbows of chair, the 1. hand open ;
on table to 1., a large volume open at page 101, showing illustra-
tion of a human skeleton ; green curtain to r., a bookcase to 1.
Canvas 58 x 40 in. [218.]
Given to the University in 1723, probably by the heiress of the
subject, his cousin, Sara Conny, widow of Captain Beaumont
Walrond.
Engraved by John Faber in 1722, the plate inscribed ALEXR VAN-
DEUHAGEN PINXI ROBERT CONNY, M.D. COLL. REG. MEDICORl LOND.
SOCIUS &C . AETATIS SUAE 67, 1722.
A similar portrait is in the possession of Magdalen College.
222 SIR GODFREY KNELLER1
Sir Godfrey Kneller*
B. 1646 at Liibeck ; came to England, 1675 ; principal court
painter to Charles II and in the four following reigns ; knighted,
1691, a baronet 1715 ; d. 1723.
Three-quarters length, standing three-quarters to 1. ; grey periwig
falling down back ; clean-shaven face ; lace cravat and ruffles ;
light grey velvet coat and waistcoat; large gold medal of
King William III suspended by chain across breast ; his r. hand
is thrust into the breast of his waistcoat, his 1. rests on a pedestal
to r. ; architectural background, distant view of Kneller Hall
through opening to 1. Canvas 49 X 39| in. [177.]
Inscribed on the back with the name and titles of the subject.
Given to the University by Sir. G. Kneller, Sept. 1721.2
Exhibition of National Portraits, 1867, No. 120 ; Oxford Exhibi-
tion of Historical Portraits, 1906, No. 20.
223 THOMAS BOUCHIER(P)
W. Sonmans.
B. 1638 (?) ; matriculated 1650 ; Fellow of All Souls College,
1658; Professor of Civil Law, 1672-1712; Principal of St.
Alban Hall, 1679 ; d. 1723.3
1 This portrait was in the University Galleries (now Ashmolean Museum) in
1862, when it was relined, stretched, cleaned, and restored by James Wyatt for
£55*.
2 Cf. Hearne's Collections, vii. 280.
3 Hearne gives the age of Bouchier when he died as about 90 Gutch, writing
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Bust, slightly to 1. ; grey wig to shoulders ; clean-shaven face ;
white lace cravat ; light brown coat, with large buttons of the
same material ; black gown ; painted in an oval spandrel ; signed
and dated WM SONMANS PINX. 169§. Canvas 29^ X £4^ in. [289.]
Inscribed on the back AETATIS SUAE 58.
Hitherto an unknown portrait; here tentatively called Thomas
Bouchier, whose portrait — a head — was given in 1774.
224 SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN
Edward Pierce.
B. 1632; educated at Wadham College; Fellow of All Souls
College ; D.C.L. ; Savilian Professor of Astronomy, 1661 ; Presi-
dent of the Royal Society, 1780 ; built the Sheldonian Theatre,
1669; d. 1723.
Bust, marble, the head three-quarters r. ; long curly hair to his
shoulders ; clean-shaven face ; eyes incised ; loose drapery.
The Plinth is inscribed CHRISTOPH. WREN EQ. AURAT. EX DONO CHRIST.
WREN, ARM.
A letter quoted by Vertue from Christopher, the son of Sir
Christopher Wren, to 'Dr. Profr Ward' (probably John Ward,
1679-1758) contains the following: 'The marble Bust of my
Father in the picture Gallery at Oxford was the performance
of Edward Pearce about the year 1673.' *
The Vice-Chancellor's accounts for 1737 show an item : ' Paid Mr.
Wren's Servant that brought down Sir Christ1*8 Bust £3 3.'
225 HUMPHREY WANLEY
Thomas Hill.
B. 1672 ; began life as a draper's assistant at Coventry ; became an
assistant in the Bodleian Library, 1696 ; prepared a catalogue of
Anglo-Saxon MSS., 1700; Librarian to the first and second
Earls of Oxford; catalogued the Harleian MSS., 1708; F.S.A.
1717 ; d. 1726.
Three-quarters length, seated to 1. behind a grey stone parapet,
the head turned three-quarters towards the spectator; dark
brown cap with gold tassel ; clean-shaven face ; white shirt open
at the throat, and white wristbands ; loose blue velvet gold-laced
coat with turned-back cuffs ; both hands hold a large open Greek
seventy years later, as 80 ; the date of his matriculation would seem to suggest
a figure between the two, which would make the dates inscribed on the picture
tolerably right.
1 I owe this reference to the kindness of Mr. Cust.
XIII
No. 224. SIR CHRISTOPHER WRKN
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MS. volume resting on two other books which with a partly
unrolled MS. lie on a table to 1. ; behind to r. is a dark red
curtain which hangs over the parapet in front ; on the stone
panel is a vase carved in high relief. Canvas 54 x 38 in. [251.]
On the back, which has been relined, is the following inscription
copied by the restorer : —
HUMPHREDUS WANLEY NATHANAELIS F: COVENTRIA
NATUS XXI DIE MART. A.D. 1671
THOMAS HILL PINXIT
XXX APRIL A.D. 1716
Acquired by the University in 1785.
Sir Gr. Scharf notes that this is a duplicate of the portrait of Wan-
ley in the possession of the Society of Antiquaries. But that is
dated Dec. 18, 1711, and measures 48 x 40 in. The words MR.
WANLEY are painted on the curtain to r.
226 THE SAME _ „.._
Thomas Hill
Bust, three-quarters to 1. ; curly brown hair ; clean-shaven face ;
long white cravat ; dark, gold-laced coat and waistcoat ; painted
in an oval spandrel; inscribed to r. D.D. EDW. COMES OXON &
MORTIMER, to 1. HUMFREDUS WANLEY COVENTRIENSIS, 1717. Canvas
33x25 in. [309.]
Given to the University by Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford,
in 1740.
Engraved by J. Smith with the inscription FEC. ET EX. 17l| NATUS
21 DIE MARTII A.D. I67i| THOMAS HILL PINXIT MENSE SEPTEMB. A.D.
1717.
Exhibition of National Portraits, 1867, No. 133.
227 SIR ISAAC NEWTON . 7 „...
Joseph Wilton.
B. 1642 ; Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge ; M.P. for Cambridge
University, 1689 and 1701-2 ; F.R.S. 1672, President from 1703 :
knighted, 1705 ; wrote the Principia, 1687 ; d. 1727.
Bust, marble, the head turned to 1. ; short hair ; clean-shaven face ;
loose drapery.
Acquired in 1762, and said to be based on an original portrait by
Enoch Seeman.1
1 Bodleian Day Book under 1762.
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228 JOHN FREIND ... . 7 _ ,7
Michael DahL
B. 1675 ; Student of Christ Church, 1694 ; M.D. 1707 ; F.R.S. ;
Physician to Queen Caroline, 1727 ; d. 1728.
Three-quarters length, seated three-quarters to r. ; white periwig
falling down back ; clean-shaven face ; white cravat ; golden-
brown coat and waistcoat ; his r. hand on his thigh, his 1. rests
beside books and writing materials on a table to r. ; warm grey
background, bust of Hippocrates on pedestal to r. Canvas
49fx39iin. [216.]
Inscription on back of canvas copied by restorer runs as follows :
4 Out of Dr. John Friend's Collection. Purchased by Dr. Simon
Burton of New College, Oxford [1690-1744] in the year ,
and after Dr. Simon Burton's decease, purchased of his executors
by John Smyth of New College in the year , and by the
latter presented to the Picture Gallery in the Public Schools
of the University of Oxford, in the year 1787.'
Engraved by G. Vertue, 1730.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1906, No. 26.
Similar pictures are in the National Portrait Gallery and Christ
Church.
229 RICHARD HALE
Jonathan Richardson the Elder.
B. 1670; educated at Trinity College : M. A. 1695; M.D. 1701 ;
Practised physic with great success in Oxford ; Physician to
Bethlehem Hospital, 1708 ; Fellow of the College of Physicians,
1716 ; a benefactor to their Library, and a distinguished student
of medicine, especially of lunacy ; d. 1728.
Three-quarters length, seated three-quarters to 1. in a high-backed
chair ; black velvet cap over forehead ; dark wig to shoulders ;
clean-shaven face ; white bands ; scarlet Doctor's gown over black
clothes; the 1. hand in white kid glove on his knee; brown
curtain background. Canvas 50 x 40 in. [117.]
This picture, under the name of Sir Robert Chambers, first appears
in Dr. Macray's list of exhibits in the Gallery 4 added to the
Collection since 1840'. It does not resemble other authentic
portraits of Chambers, and is not even of that period. Its
identification has been discovered at the Royal College of
Physicians, where there are two portraits of Richard Hale, one
identical with this, copied by Richardson for the College in 1733
' from a painting made in Hale's lifetime '.
In Gutch's catalogue this portrait, No. 229, is probably the one
called Dr. James Hyde.
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230 JOSEPH BOWLES
Thomas Wright.
B. 1695 (?) ; Fellow of Oriel College, 1719 ; Bodley's Librarian,
1719 ; d. 1729.
Three-quarters length, standing almost facing the spectator;
powdered wig ; clean-shaven face ; white bands and wristbands ;
black gown over black clothes; the r. hand hanging down by
side and holding a small book, the 1. arm leaning on base of
pillar to r. ; inscribed D. D. THOMAS WRIGHT PICTOR, LONDINENSIS ;
above to 1., i. B. BIBL. EL. NOV. 1719. OBIIT NOV. 24, 1729. Canvas
49x39 in. [302.]
Given to the University by the painter.
In the Vice-Chancellor's accounts for 1730 there is an item : ' Paid
for the frame and carriage of Mr. Bowies' Picture, £4.2. 0.'
231 SAMUEL CLARKE
B. 1675 ; educated at Caius College, Cambridge ; Chaplain in
ordinary to Queen Anne ; Rector of S. James's, Westminster, and
D.D. 1709; published theological and philosophical treatises,
commentaries on classical authors and a translation of Homer ;
d. 1729.
Half length, slightly to 1. ; greyish- brown wig falling on to shoulders ;
clean-shaven face ; white bands ; black gown over black clothes ;
painted in an oval spandrel. Canvas 30 x 25 in. [225.]
Given to the University by Dr. Rawlinson in 1752.
In a letter to George Ballard dated 17 Feb. 1752, Dr. Rawlinson
writes l : ' My respects to Mr. Owen [the Librarian] and let him
know that I design a Portfolio for my prints, and a good picture
of Dr. Sam. Clarke from Dr. R.1
232 JOSHUA LASHER
B. 1648 (?) ; Fellow of St. John's College ; lived in Pennyfarthing
Street ; M.D. 1679 ; Regius Professor of Medicine, 1718 ; d.
1729.
Three-quarters length, seated to r. ; powdered hair ; clean-shaven
face ; white lace bands, the ends frilled and overlapping ; scarlet
Doctor's gown over dark clothes ; the r. hand rests on book lying
on blue velvet covered table to 1. ; dark reddish-brown curtain
background. Canvas 50 x 39 in. [351.]
In the Gallery in 1790.
1 Ballard, MS. ii, 153.
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233 FRANCIS ATTERBURY
Sir G. Knetter.
B. 1662 ; educated at Christ Church ; Dean, 1712 ; Bishop of
Rochester and Dean of Westminster, 1713 ; exiled for his
allegiance to the House of Stuart ; d. in France, 1732.
Half length, to 1., the head turned towards the spectator ; grey
wig ; square bands ; rochet ; black chimere. Canvas 30 x 25 in.
[815.]
Given to the University by Bartholomew Peisley, D.D., Fellow of
Trinity College, in 1750.
A mezzotint of this portrait by I. Simon is dated 1718.
A similar portrait is in the Deanery, Westminster. There is
another at Christ Church.
234 ROBERT LORD RAYMOND
John Vandcrbank.1
B. 1673 ; called to the Bar from Gray's Inn, 1697 ; Solicitor-
General, and knighted, 1710 ; Lord Chief Justice, 1725 ; created
Baron Raymond, 1731 ; d. 1733.
Whole length, standing three-quarters to 1. ; long grey wig ; clean-
shaven face; lace bands; scarlet and miniver judge's robes; collar
of SS as Lord Chief Justice ; both hands by his sides, the 1. gloved
holds glove, the r. open ; to 1., table with slate-coloured velvet
cover, on which lies coronet ; classical statue in an alcove to 1. ;
shield of arms carved on pillar to r. ; blue curtain background.
Canvas 94 x 58 in. [291.]
Given to the University by Uriah Shudall in 1735, in testimonium
grati animi et memoris benefeiorum.
The Vice-Chancellor's accounts for 1735 show an item paid 'to
Mr. West charges about Ld Raymonds picte and carriage,
£4 . 18 . 6.'
235 MARIA CLEMENTINA SOBIESKA, WIFE OF
THE OLD PRETENDER
B. 1701 ; daughter of Prince James Sobieski, eldest son of the King
of Poland; married James Edward Stuart, the Chevalier of
St. George, 1719 ; retired to a nunnery in Rome in 1725 ; d. 1735.
Half length, almost facing the spectator ; powdered hair with curl
on r. shoulder, large ruby over forehead and pearl combs and jewel
cluster on her 1. side; low-cut white satin dress embroidered
1 The ascription is given by Gutch.
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with gold, and bordered round neck with gold band studded with
jewels, and a lace tucker ; deep, gold, double-pointed waist-band,
edged with pearls and embroidered with jewels ; rope of pearls
from shoulder to shoulder caught at breast and shoulder with
jewel clusters ; ermine-lined blue velvet mantle ; English crown
on table to 1.
Oil paint on copper, 9| x 7£ in. [51.]
Bequeathed to the University by Dr. Rawlinson in 1755, but not
exhibited until about 1870 in the Librarianship of the Rev. H.
O. Coxe.
Leeds Exhibition, 1868.
236 WILLIAM DERHAM
B. 1657 ; educated at Trinity College ; a naturalist ; D.D., and
F.R.S., 1702 ; Canon of Windsor, 1716 ; d. 1735.
Half length slightly to r. ; dark grey wig ; clean-shaven face ; white
square bands ; black gown over black clothes ; brown background;
inscribed EEV. WILLM DERHAM CANON OF WINDSOR F.R.S. ; painted
in an oval spandrel. Canvas 30 x 25 in. [54.1
In the Gallery in 1790.
There is another portrait in Trinity College.
237 THOMAS HEARNE1
B. 1678 ; educated at St. Edmund Hall at the expense of Thomas
Cherry ; M.A. 1703 ; Under keeper of the Bodleian, 1712 ;
deprived as a nonjuror; a learned antiquary and indefatigable
editor; d. 1735.
Half length, sitting to 1. ; long hair over shoulders ; clean-shaven
face; square bands; M.A. gown over unbuttoned coat, and
waistcoat; his 1. hand on hip, his r. holding book inscribed
SUUM cuiauE open on his knee ; a well-filled bookcase behind to 1. ;
inscribed on margin THOMAS HEARNE M.A. OF EDMUND HALL OXON.
DYED X JUNE MDCC XXXV, and P. TILLEMANS D., VERTUE S., 1729.
Engraving, 6£ x 4| in.
1 Although outside the scheme of this catalogue, an exception in favour of a print
seems demanded in the case of an antiquary so completely identified with Oxford
as Thomas Hearne. A drawing was once in the possession of Dr. Rawlinson,
who writes to Thomas Rawlins, Nov. 25, 1735 (Ballard MS. ii. 1, where the letter
is copied), ' Mr. Bedford, son of ye editor of Hereditary Right, to whom ye MSS.
[Hearne's] are left, has given me the only original Drawing of him taken by Mich.
Burghers ... in black lead— which I value much more than that stolen by
Mr. Bridge's direction.' This drawing apparently did not come to the Library.
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238 WILLIAM BROMLEY
B. 1699 (?); son of the Speaker ; educated at Oriel College ; D.C.L.
1732 ; elected M.P. for the University, Feb. 1737; d. March 1737.
Bust, to r. ; grey wig ; clean-shaven face ; white frilled shirt ;
brown velvet coat, yellow waistcoat ; painted in an oval spandrel.
Canvas 30 x 25 in. [248.]
Inscribed in ink on back of frame WM BROMLEY ESQ., MEMBER OF
PARLT FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. THE LEGACY OF THOS.
BURGH M.D. TO THE UNIVERSITY 1771.
Thomas Burgh was an M.D. of Christ Church and residedat Coventry .
239 JOHN KING
B.1655(?); educated at Christ Church; D.D. 1704; Master of the
Charterhouse, Archdeacon of Colchester, 1722 ; Canon of Bristol,
1728 ; d. (aged 82) 1737.
Whole length, standing, facing the spectator ; grey wig ; clean-
shaven face ; white bands ; black gown ; open upright large
volume on red-covered table to 1., on which his r. arm rests, the
hand, holding a paper, 1. hand stretched out ; crimson curtain
background, red arm-chair to r. Canvas 92 x 57-| in. [272.]
Bequeathed to the University by the subject by will dated 1736,
together with a collection of twelve subject pictures.1
240 THOMAS BAKER
Charles Bridges.
B. 1656 ; Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, 1680-1717 ;
ejected as a nonjuror, but allowed to continue to reside; an
antiquary, historian of his College ; benefactor to it and to his
University; d. 1740.
Bust, facing the spectator, the head slightly to 1. ; clean-shaven face,
brown wig ; small bands ; black gown ; painted in an oval
spandrel ; inscribed above to 1. with the name of the subject, to
r. D.D. RICH. RAWLINSON LL.D. Canvas 30 x 25 in. [243.]
In R. Masters' Life of Baker, 1784, compiled from the papers of
Dr. Zachary Grey, Baker's friend and literary executor, it is stated
(p. 106) that this portrait ' was purchased out of Lord Oxford's
Collection by Dr. Rawlinson and placed in the Picture Gallery at
Oxford. Charles Bridges pinxit memoriter\
Engraved by J. Simon in mezzotint, and inscribed with these last
1 Enumerated by Gutch, p. 969 f.
XIV
XV
97
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four words. The portrait appears to have been based on a draw-
ing made by Vertue for Lord Oxford * by stealth ' about 1730.1
It was acquired by Dr. Rawlinson, who believed it to be the only
original picture of Baker,2 at Lord Oxford's sale for £% .10s., and
given to the University in 1745.
Sir George Scharf notes a duplicate in the possession of the Society
of Antiquaries which he considers the original. The measure-
ments differ somewhat, being 20f x 18£ in.
241 EDMUND HALLEY
Thomas Murray.
B. 1656 ; M.A. of Queen's College and F.R.S. 1678 ; published
Newton's Principia ; Savilian Professor of Geometry, 1703 ;
D.C.L. 1710; Astronomer Royal, 1721 ; first predicted the return
of comets and pointed out the movements of the * fixed ' stars ;
d. 1742.
Three-quarters length, standing to 1., the head turned towards the
spectator ; long brown wig ; clean-shaven face ; square bands ;
dark purplish dress ; black fur-lined cloak, on which his 1. hand
rests, his r. touches a globe to 1. ; building, in distance to 1.
Canvas 50x40 in. [168.]
Hearne notes, Nov. 1713, 'The Picture of Dr. Edmund Halley
(Savilian Professor of Geometry) done exactly like him by
Mr. Tho. Murray, who gave it, is lately placed in the Gallery of
the Bodlejan Library.' 3
A similar portrait is at Queen's College.
242 JOHN HOUGH
B. 1651; M.A. of Magdalen College, 1676; D.D. and President
1687 ; ejected by King James II ; reinstated, 1688 ; Bishop of
Oxford, 1690, of Lichfield, 1699, and of Worcester, 1717 ; d. 1743.
Three-quarters length, seated to r. in red velvet chair, the head
turned three-quarters towards the spectator ; grey wig ; clean-
shaven face ; white bands, rochet and black chimere ; the 1. arm
rests on red-covered table, the r. at his waist ; cap (?) on table ;
Canvas 50 x 40 in. [162.]
In the Gallery in 1759.
1 Walpole, Life of George Vertue, 4to ed., iv. 124.
2 Ballard MS. ii. pp. 108V and 166.
3 Hearne's Collections, iv. 257.
890 H
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243 ALEXANDER POPE
Attributed to Charles Jervas.
B. 1688 ; published Pastorals, 1709 ; became intimate with Addison
and his circle ; the first part of translation of Homer published
1715; the Dunciad, 1712, completed with additions in 1742;
Essay on Man, 1733 ; d. 1744.
Half length, three-quarters to r. ; grey periwig falling over
shoulders ; clean-shaven face ; blue velvet coat open over white
shirt at breast ; his 1. hand held before him ; warm grey back-
ground ; painted in an oval spandrel. Canvas 29^ x 24 in. [136.]
On the frame is an inscription commemorating the gift of the picture
by Edward afterwards Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, 1722.
Engraved by G. Vertue.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1906, No. 47*.
244 UNKNOWN MAN
English School about 1775.
Miniature, bust slightly to 1., looking at spectator; brown hair;
clean-shaven face; lace cravat; dark brown coat; grey background.
Water-colour on ivory, oval, 1,% x £| in.
Labelled Alexander Pope. An old piece of paper pasted at the
back gives the price, 30/-.
245 JONATHAN RICHARDSON THE ELDER
Ascribed to Jonathan Richardson the Younger.
B. 1665 ; portrait painter, pupil of John Riley ; made an impor-
tant collection of drawings by the Old Masters ; wrote several
essays on the theory of painting and criticism ; d. 1745.
Bust, slightly to 1. ; folded cap ; bushy wig ; clean-shaven face ;
neck-cloth ; dated 25 June, 1739. Pencil drawing, 4| x 3£ in.
The portrait is pasted inside the first cover of a copy of Richard-
son's Essay on the Theory of Painting, 1715, bequeathed to
the Bodleian by Francis Douce in 1834. Under the drawing is
written, ' Richardson by himself,' in a later hand.
246 JONATHAN SWIFT
Charles Jervas.
B. 1667; educated at Trinity College, Dublin; D.D., 1701;
admitted to Hart Hall, 1692 ; Prebendary of St. Patrick's, 1700,
Dean, 1713; published Tale of a Tub, 1704, Gulliver's Travels,
1726 ; d. 1745.
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Bust, facing the spectator, the head turned three-quarters to r. ;
grey periwig falling to shoulders ; clean-shaven face ; square
bands ; black gown and scarf; dark background ; painted in an
oval spandrel. Canvas 29J X 24 in. [140.]
A tablet attached to the frame is inscribed : —
Jonath: Swift S.T.P.
Decan. S. Patr. Dubl.
Effigiem Viri Musis Amicissimi,
Ingenio prorsus sibi Proprio celeberrimi
Ut Ipsum suis Oxoniensibus aliquatenus redonaret,
Parietem habere voluit Bodleianum,
1739
Johannes Barber, Armiger, Aldermanus,
Nee ita pridem Praetor Londinensis.
Engraved by G. Vertue, 1716.
The gift is referred to in a letter to Swift, dated April 10, 1739,
'Your friend Mr. Alderman Barber, whose veneration for you
prompts him to do anything he can think of that can show his re-
spect and affection, made a present to the University of Oxford
of the original picture done for you by Jervas, to do honour to
the University by your being placed in the Gallery among the
most renowned and distinguished personages this island has pro-
duced ; but first he had a copy taken, and then had the original
set in a rich frame and sent it to Oxford after concerting with
Lord Bolinbroke, the Vice-Chancellor, and Mr. Pope/ l
Exhibition of National Portraits, 1867, No. 140, Oxford Exhibition
of Historical Portraits, 1906, No. 48*.
247 JOHN JAMES DILLENIUS
B. 1681, at Darmstadt; Professor of Botany at Oxford, 1728;
M.D. 1735; d. 1747.
Half length, slightly to r. ; grey wig ; clean-shaven face ; white bands ;
dark brown coat, showing white shirt at wrist ; 1. hand, hidden,
supports a coloured drawing of the flower Amaryllis Formosissima.
to which he is pointing with the first finger of the r. hand.
Canvas 30 x 25 in. [219.]
1 Temple Scott's edition of Swift's Prose Works, xii. 8, 7. The late Sir Frederick
Falkiner, Recorder of Dublin, the writer of the Essay on Swift's Portraits, where
this letter is printed, considers the Bodleian Portrait 'almost certainly ' the earliest
authentic portrait, the ' premier portrait in every sense '. He thinks it to be that
mentioned to Stella in the Journal under date Sept. 1710, but the connexion of
that picture with Alderman Barber is not made out.
100 PORTRAITS IN
Frame inscribed j. JACOBUS DILLENIUS M.D. BOTANICUS PROFESSOR
SHERARDIANUS PRIMUS.
Given to the University in 1752 by Dr. Sydal, a resident in Oxford,
who d. 1761, aged 84.
Another copy of this portrait is in the Library of the Botanic
Garden.
Engraved by James Heath.
248 JOHN POTTER
Thomas Hudson.
B. 1674 (?) ; entered University College, 1688 ; M. A. and Fellow of
Lincoln College, 1694 ; D.D. 1706 ; Regius Professor of Divin-
ity, 1707-37 ; Bishop of Oxford, 1715 ; Archbishop of Canter-
bury, 1737 ; published Archaeologia Graeca, 1697-8 ; d. 1747.
Whole length, standing slightly to 1. ; white wig; clean-shaven
face; bands; white rochet; black chimere and scarf; his r.
hand before him, his 1. at his side holds a fold of his robe;
square cap on table with a dark green cover to 1. ; in background
dark green curtain to r. ; altar-piece of a church to 1. ; signed
THOMAS HUDSON, PiNxiT. Canvas, 94 X 61^ in. [43.]
Given to the University by John Potter, Dean of Canterbury, son
of the subject, 1750.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1906, No. 64*.
249 JOSEPH TRAPP
B. 1679; scholar of Wadham College, 1696; M.A. and Fellow,
1702 ; first Professor of Poetry, 1708-18 ; d. 1747.1
Half length, three-quarters to r. ; white periwig falling to neck ;
clean-shaven face ; square bands ; black gown, cassock, and scarf ;
warm grey background. Canvas, 29 x 24 in. [135.]
Given to the University by Joseph Trapp, son of the subject, 1755.
Engraved for Harding's Biographical Mirrour, 1796, ii. 96.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1906, No. 49.
250 EDMUND GIBSON
John Vanderbank.
B. 1669 ; admitted < a poor serving child ' at Queen's College, 1686 ;
M.A. and Fellow, 1694 ; wrote the Codex Juris Ecclesiae
1 He was commemorated in the attractive distich :—
Alma novem genuit celebres Rhedecyna poetas,
Bubb, Stubb, Grubb, Crabb, Trapp, Young, Cary,Tickell, Evans.
(Quoted in N. $ Q., 10th S., xii. 303, 1909.)
LIBRARY
XVI
No. 240. DKAX SWIFT
No. 233. DEAX ATTERBUKY
No. 241. DR. HALLKY
No. 259. DR. WILLIAM KING
101
THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY 101
Anglicanae, 1713 ; Bishop of Lincoln, 1716, of London, 1720 ;
d. 1748.
Three-quarters length, seated three-quarters to r. ; white periwig
falling to shoulders ; clean-shaven face ; bands ; white rochet ;
black chimere ; his r. hand at his side holds a fold of his robe,
his 1. hangs over the arm of his chair ; architectural and curtain
background; signed twice JNO VANDERBANK, FECIT 1735. Canvas
49x39 in. [158.]
Probably the picture formerly named Archbishop Black burne,
given to the University by Dr. John Foulkes of Christ Church,
with No. 193, in 1787.1
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1906, No. 54.
Engraved by J. Faber, the younger, with the date 1737.
251 THE SAME
Half length, seated to 1., the head nearly facing the spectator;
white wig to neck ; clean-shaven face ; white bands ; rochet and
black chimere ; his r. hand holds a brown octavo book with a red
label entitled PASTORAL LETTERS2; warm brown background.
Canvas 30x25 in. [157.]
Given to the University by John Gutch in 1795, and described by
him as, 'in an episcopal habit, with his Pastoral Letters in his
hand.'
252 SIR HANS SLOANE
Jonathan Richardson the Elder.
B. 1660; studied medicine at Paris and Montpellier; M.D. at
Orange, 1683; F.R.S. 1685, Secretary, 1693-1712, President,
1727-41 ; created a Baronet, 1716 ; President of the College of
Physicians, 1719—35 ; his collections were bequeathed to the
nation and were part of the earliest contents of the British
Museum ; d. 1753.
Whole length, seated three-quarters to 1. on a dais decorated with
squares of red set in green ; grey periwig falling over shoulders ;
clean-shaven face ; square bands ; scarlet and rose-coloured M.D.
robes ; his r. elbow rests beside his Doctor's cap on a table to 1.,
the hand in his lap, his 1. hand on his thigh ; dark architectural
background ; inscribed 'ON A' ATTH HOATMHTIS 'ANEIIAASE XEPSIN
1 This portrait was only recently identified by Mr. T. W. Jackson by comparison,
after it had been restored, with one of the Bishop at Queen's College.
2 The Bishop's Pastoral Letters were published in a series of three, the first
in 1728.
102 PORTRAITS IN
'A0HNH. APPOS. RAD. PALMER ARM. J. RICHARDSON PINXIT 1730.
Canvas, 93x57 in. [44.]
Given to the University by the subject in 1731.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1906, No. 68*.
253 RICHARD NEWTON?
B. 1676 ; M.A. of Christ Church 1701 ; D.D. 1710 ; and Principal
of Hart Hall, which he re-established as Hertford College, 1740 ;
d. 1753.
Bust, slightly to r., looking at the spectator; short white wig
of the period, 1725-45 ; clean-shaven face ; long white bands ;
black velvet or silk gown ; painted in an oval spandrel. Canvas
29x24 in. [274.]
Perhaps the portrait of Dr. Richard Newton, received in 1762.1
254 JAMES GIBBS
John Michael Williams.
B. 1682, in Aberdeen; studied architecture under Carlo Fontana
in Rome ; built the Senate House,, and Fellows' Buildings of
King's College, Cambridge, 1722; and the Radcliffe Library,
1737; bequeathed a valuable architectural library to the
University; d. 1754.
Half length, seated slightly to 1. facing the spectator ; white periwig
falling to shoulders ; clean-shaven face ; white cravat and ruffles ;
grey velvet coat ; both hands, his r. holding compasses, rest on a
plan of the Radcliffe Library, which lies beside some books on a
table before him ; dark background ; signed and dated JOHN MTCHA.
WILLIAMS, PINXIT, 1752. Canvas 35 J x 27J in. [281.]
The portrait appears in the Catalogue of 1760.
Oxford Exhibition of National Portraits, 1906, No. 61.
A similar picture is in the National Portrait Gallery.
Engraved by J. McArdell.
1 This guess has these considerations to support it. It is unlikely that a
portrait of about 1745-50 should have entirely perished, and no tradition explains
its absence from the Bodleian collection, while no other picture there could be
Dr. Newton. It does not resemble the portrait said to be Newton in Hertford
College. But the pedigree of that picture is far from impeccable. It was found
in the Library of old Hertford College in 1822, when after twenty years of neglect
and practical desertion the buildings were occupied by Magdalen Hall, and may
with equal probability represent Newton's predecessor William Thornton, founder
of Hart Hall Library, who died in 1707.
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255 RICHARD MEAD
B. 1673; M.D. at Padua, 1695, at Oxford, 1707; F.R.S. ;
Physician to the Court ; a connoisseur, and collector of works
of art; d. 1754.
Bust, three-quarters to r., looking at the spectator ; white periwig
falling down back ; clean-shaven face ; white cravat ; purple coat ;
scarlet drapery round waist ; dark background. Canvas 29J x 24J
in. [217.]
Given to the University by Swithin Adee, M.D. of Corpus Christi
College, who d. 1786.
A similar picture, but three-quarters length, is in the National
Portrait Gallery, painted in 1740 and signed by Allan Ramsay.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1906, No. 59.
256 RICHARD RAWLINSON
B. 1690 ; educated at St. John's College ; F.R.S. 1714 ; D.C.L.
1719 ; consecrated nonjuring Bishop, 1728 ; an antiquary and
collector ; a great benefactor to the University ; d. 1755.
Half length, very slightly to r. ; short white curly wig ; clean-
shaven face; white muslin bands; scarlet and pale rose-colour
D.C.L. gown over black coat; the r. hand holds black cap.
Canvas 35 x 27 in. [115.1
In the Gallery in 1759, and probably acquired by bequest of the
subject.
257 GEORGE FREDERICK HANDEL
Thomas Hudson.
B. 1685, at Giebichenstein in Saxony; settled in England, 1712;
Director of the Royal Academy of Music, 1720 ; Composer to
the Court, 1726 ; produced operas, oratorios, etc., 1720-57 ; d. in
England, 1759.
Three-quarters length, seated to 1., the head turned three-quarters
to r. ; grey- wig ; clean-shaven face ; white shirt, frilled in front
and at the wrists ; warm grey velvet coat, embroidered with gold,
over a partly-opened dark-pink waistcoat; the 1. arm rests on
books and papers on a carved table, the hand holding some sheets
of music ; the r. hand on hip. Canvas 50 x 40 in. [62.]
A tablet on the frame is inscribed G. F. HANDEL UNIVERSITATI
OXON D. D. SAMUEL HOWAED MUS. D., A. D. MDCCLXXVIII.
Hanover Exhibition, 1901. Reproduced in Mr. Spielmann's English
Portrait Pamting.
104 PORTRAITS IN
A very similar portrait belonging to the Royal Society of Musicians
was engraved by Faber in 1748.1
258 JAMES BRADLEY
Thomas Hudson.
B. 1693; educated at Balliol College; M.A. 1717; D.D. 1742;
F.R.S. 1718 ; Savilian Professor of Astronomy, 1721 ; an-
nounced his discovery of the aberration of light, 1729; and
that of the nutation of the axis of the earth, 1748 ; d. 1762.
Bust, three-quarters to r. ; white wig ; clean-shaven face ; square
bands; black gown and scarf; warm grey background; painted
in an oval spandrel. Canvas 29 X 24£ in. [205.]
Given to the University in 1769 by Susanna, daughter of the subject
and wife of the Rev. Samuel Peach (d. 1812).
A copy of this picture is in the National Portrait Gallery.2
Engraved by J. Faber, the younger.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1906, No. 72.
259 WILLIAM KING
John Michael Williams.
B. 1685; educated at Balliol College; D.C.L. 1715; Principal of
St. Mary Hall, 1719 ; for some time the leader of the Jacobites
in Oxford ; d. 1763.
Three-quarters length, sitting to r. in blue velvet chair, the head
turned three-quarters to 1. ; white wig to shoulders ; clean-shaven
face; white neck-cloth, and long ruffles; rust-red velvet coat,
and knee-breeches ; the r. hand, on knee, holds pen, the 1., open,
is held over papers on green-covered table to r. ; behind to 1.
green curtain, to r. bookcase with books ; signed and dated, to r.
JOHN MICHA. WILLIAMS FiNxiT 1750.3 Canvas 50 x 40 in. [253.]
This portrait was sent to the Bodleian by the Executors of the
subject in 1764.
A similar picture was engraved by J. Faber in 1749.
260 JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART,
THE 'OLD PRETENDER'
B. 1688, in London; the son of King James II, and Mary of
Modena ; lived mainly in Paris and Rome ; m. Princess
1 See Magazine of Art, viii. 316.
2 Four other original portraits are enumerated in Bradley's Miscellaneous
Works, Oxford, 1832, p. civ.
3 Gutch implies an addition, * set. 65.'
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Clementina Sobieska of Poland, 1719 ; made an attempt to ob-
tain the English crown, 1715 ; d. in Rome, 1766.
Half length, three-quarters to r., the head turned three-quarters
to 1. ; curly grey wig falling over shoulders ; clean-shaven face ;
white cravat; in armour; blue ribbon of the Order of the
Garter over 1. shoulder, green ribbon of the Thistle over the r.,
from which is suspended the badge of that Order ; on the table
to 1. lies the English crown, to r. is seen a sailing-ship. Oil-
paint on copper, 9J X 7£ in. [52.]
Bequeathed to the University by Dr. Rawlinson in 1755, but not
exhibited until about 1870, in the Librarianship of the Rev.
H. O. Coxe.1
Leeds Exhibition, 1868.
261 EDWARD LYE
Frances Reynolds.
B. 1694 ; educated at Hart Hall ; M.A. 1722 ; Rector of Yardley
Hastings, Northamptonshire, where he was a friend and neighbour
of Dr. Percy, afterwards the Bishop of Dromore ; published a
MS. left by Francis Junius, and other philological works ; a
distinguished Anglo-Saxon scholar ; d. 1767.
Half length, seated to 1. in a red arm-chair ; clean-shaven face ;
bushy grey wig ; white bands ; loose black coat, breeches and
stockings ; 1. arm on knee, the r. holds open book ; papers, and
ink-pot with upright pen, on red- covered table to 1. ; books and
curtain behind ; inscribed EDWARDUS LYE A. M., THO. PERCY S.T.P.
EP. DROMORE D.D. Canvas 30 x 35 in. [307.]
Dr. Percy was not bishop till 1782, so that the inscription was
probably added when the portrait was given to the Bodleian.
Engraved by T. Burke in 1784, as by Frances Reynolds, with
slight variations, but apparently the same portrait.
262 CHRISTIAN FREDERICK WEICHMANN
C. F. Weichmann.
B. c. 1705, in North Germany ; son of a schoolmaster at Hamburg ;
lawyer at Hamburg and man of letters; wrote and collected
poetry, and edited and published various other works ; presented
some volumes to the Bodleian, and received the degree of B.C.L.
from the University, 1728 ; F.R.S. ; d. 1769.
1 See for the anti-Jacobite feeling in Oxford against Stuart portraits, Hearne's
Collections, iv. 92.
106 PORTRAITS IN
Bust to r., blue velvet cap ; clean-shaven face ; white shirt and neck-
cloth; reddish-brown velvet coat, and dull-gold waistcoat; painted
in an oval spandrel. Canvas 30 x £5 in. [75.]
A tablet on the frame is inscribed : ' Painted and given by himself,
1728.'
In the Register of Benefactions, where the name is entered as John
Frederick, the gift of the portrait — 'effigiem manu depictam
accuratissima ' — by the subject is recorded in 1727.
Walpole, in his Anecdotes, notes that ' the portrait of John Fre-
derick Wieckman of Hamburg, painted by Denner, is said to
be in the Bodleian Library, at Oxford.1 But later editors assert
that the picture is certainly not by that painter.
In the University Galleries (now Ashmolean Museum) in 1865.
263 FRANCIS YARBOROUGH
Copy from Tilly Kettle.
B. 1696 (?) ; B. A. of University College, 1716 ; M.A. of Brasenose
College, 1719; Principal, 1745; D.D. 1746; d. 1770.
Three-quarters length, seated slightly to 1., the head turned three-
quarters to r. ; bushy white wig ; clean-shaven face ; bands and
white wristbands ; black and scarlet D.D. gown over black
cassock and sash ; his 1. hand rests on arm of blue velvet chair,
his r. beside three books on table to 1. ; grey background.
Canvas 50 x 40 in. [214.]
The original at Brasenose College, is inscribed T. KETTLE PINX. 1763.
This portrait was in the first instance given to Brasenose College
by Sir Richard Kaye, Bart., Dean of Lincoln, about 1784, but by
his will he directed that it should be handed over to the Uni-
versity, as he bequeathed the original canvas to the College.
The original nevertheless was placed in the Bodleian, and the
exchange with the present copy was not effected until 1818.1
264 PIERRE FRANgOIS LE COURAYER2
B. 1681, at Rouen ; Member of the Fraternity of S. Genevieve ;
author of a work defending the validity of Anglican Orders ;
banished from France ; D.D. Oxford, 1727 ; visited Oxford,
1733; d. 1776.
1 Brasenose Quatercentenary Monographs, VII, p. 20.
2 Gutch describes this portrait as * in an Albe and his own hair '; another, also
dated, is preserved in the Hope Collection (Wellesley Coll.). It is a pen-and-ink
and chalk drawing, the face older, in wig, bands, surplice, and scarf; dated 1738,
AET. 58 ; it came from the Gulston Collection.
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Half length, slightly to r. ; short wavy brown hair ; clean-shaven
face ; white collar and alb ; painted in an oval spandrel, inscribed
below : PET. FRANC. LE COURAYER, s. GENOVEFAE PARIS, CANONICUS
REGUL. ET BIBLIOT? NATUS ROTHOMAGI 17 NOV. AN. 1681. ' QUOCUMQUE
DUXIT VERITAS Ausus sEaui.' Canvas 31^ x £4f in. [163.]
Sent from London and given to the University by the subject in
1768.
265 SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE
Tilly Kettle.
B. 1723; Fellow of All Souls College, 1744; first Vinerian
Professor of the Laws of England, 1758 ; Principal of New Inn
Hall, 1761 ; Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, and knighted,
1770 ; d. 1780.
Three-quarters length, standing slightly to r., the head turned
three-quarters to r. ; white bushy wig ; clean-shaven face ; lace
cravat and ruffles ; scarlet and rose-coloured D.C.L. gown over
black velvet clothes ; his r. hand rests on his hip, his 1. upon a
volume, inscribed THE GREAT CHARTER, which lies with other
books on a pedestal to 1. ; architectural background, purple
curtain to 1., sky through opening to r. ; inscribed at the top
T. KETTLE PINXIT, and below to 1. WILLIAM BLACKSTONE, LLD.
VINERIAN PROFESSOR OF THE LAWS OF ENGLAND, SOLICITOR-GENERAL
TO THE QUEEN, AND MEMBER FOR HINDON, WILTS. Canvas 49£ X
39 in. [208.]
A tablet now attached to No. 266 belongs to this picture ; it is
inscribed: 'This portrait of Sir William Blackstone Knt., the
first Vinerian Professor of Law, and one of the Justices of His
Majesty's Court of Common Pleas, is with Respect and Gratitude
presented to the University of Oxford ; By R. Woodeson, D.C.L.,
Professor T. Milles, B.C.L., Fellow, T. Plumer, A.M., &
H. Addington, A.M., scholars upon Mr. Viner's Foundation,
1781.' i
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1906, No. 103*.
266 THE SAME
Copy from Thomas Gainsborough.
Half length, three-quarters to 1. ; white full-bottomed wig ; clean-
shaven face ; bands ; scarlet and miniver judge's robes ; his r.
1 Cf. the dates on Nos. 265 & 266. Some errors in the inscription on the
tablet show that it is a copy of the original one ; it was probably fitted to the
frame of No. 266 in error after the restoration of the Gallery in 1830. No. 265
was in the Gallery in 1785.
108 PORTRAITS IN
hand holds a folded charter to which is attached the great seal
of King John ; dark background. Canvas 22£ x 24£ in. [109.]
Copy signed ' J. Rising', and dated 1808, from the picture engraved
by J. Hall, with the date 1774, in the Salting Collection,
National Gallery.
Exhibition of National Portraits, 1867, No. 744 ; Oxford Exhibi-
tion of Historical Portraits, 1906, No. 102.
266 a THE SAME
Another copy of the same picture.
Canvas 29£ x 24| in. [279.]
267 JOSEPH TORELLI
Franco Zoppi.
B. 1721 ; lived in Verona ; prepared material for an edition of
Archimedes, which was sent to the Bodleian Library in 1792,
after the death of the subject, by his executor, Albert Albertini.
Through the recommendation of John Strange, British Envoy
to Venice, the book was published by the Clarendon Press;
d. 1781.
Medallion, marble ; profile in high relief to 1. ; bald head, hair at
the back ; clean-shaven face ; inscribed round the edge JOSEPHUS
TORELLUS VERON. V. C. OB. XV KAL. SEPT. MDCCLXXXI ANN. NAT. LIX
FRANCO ZOPPI FE VERONA.
An item in the Vice-Chancellor's accounts for 1784, ' Paid to Mr.
Strange for Plate of Torrelli's Bust £10 . 10,' no doubt indi-
cates the purchase of this medallion.
268 GEORGE MASON
Tilly Kettle.
B. 1731 (?); educated at St. John's College, Cambridge; D.D.,
New College, and Bishop of Sodor and Man, 1780 ; d. 1783.
Three-quarters length, seated three-quarters to r. ; white bushy
wig ; clean-shaven face ; bands ; white rochet ; black chimere ;
both hands held before him, his r. elbow resting beside some
books on a table to 1., the 1. on his lap ; architectural background ;
signed and dated T. KETTLE, PINXJT, 1780. Canvas 49 X 394 in.
[159.]
Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1781.
Engraved by W. Dickinson, 1783.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1906, No. 91.
XVII
No, 268. BISHOP MASON
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369 FREDERICK THE GREAT
After Anton Graff.
B. 1712 ; son of Frederick William I and Sophia Dorothea of Han-
over ; succeeded to the Throne, 1740 ; d. 1786.
Miniature, bust, three-quarters to 1., looking at the spectator ;
clean-shaven face ; powdered wig ; blue uniform coat with scarlet
collar ; grey background. Water-colour on ivory, f x £ in.
Given to the University by Mrs. Sutherland.
270 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Copy frbm J. A. Hottdon.
B. at Boston, Massachusetts, 1706 ; employed on diplomatic missions
between the American Colonies and England ; d. 1790.
Bust, bronze, the head facing the spectator ; crown of head rather
bald, long hair to shoulders ; clean-shaven face ; eyeballs in-
cised ; neck-cloth, waistcoat, and coat ; inscribed at the back :
BENJAMIN FRANKLYN BY JEAN ANTOINE HOUDON 1788 FOR OXFORD
UNIVERSITY, ENGLAND, A GIFT FROM JONATHAN ACKERMAN COLES, A.B.
A.M. M.D. AN ALUMNUS OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK, U.S.A.,
F. BARBEDIENNE, FONDEUR. TIFFANY & CO.
A similar head is at the Boston l Athenaeum ; given in 1902.2
271 FLORA MACDONALD
Allan Ramsay.
B. 1722 ; daughter of Ranald Macdonald, a farmer of South Uist ;
assisted Prince Charles. Edward Stuart in escaping to Skye, 1746 ;
imprisoned in the Tower of London, but released, 1747; m.
Allan Macdonald, 1750 ; d. 1790.
Half length, slightly to r., looking at the spectator ; dark hair
dressed in curls, with a white rose ; blue low-necked sleeveless
bodice over white underdress ; tartan scarf round shoulders ;
bunch of red and white roses at breast ; her 1. hand holds wreath
of flowers ; grey background ; painted in an oval spandrel.
Canvas 29x24 in. [173.]
In 1867 it was signed on the back, RAMSAY PINXIT ANNO 1749.
Engraved by J. M. McArdell, 1749.
First appears in the Catalogue of 1844.3
1 See McClure's Magazine, Jan. 1897.
2 See the University Gazette, June 17, 1902, p. 608.
3 This portrait was in the University Galleries (now Ashmolean Museum)
in 1865. It is reproduced in Scottish Portraits, iii, by Mr. James Caw, who con-
siders it the best portrait existing of the subject.
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Exhibition of National Portraits, 1867, No. 312 ; Oxford Exhibition
of Historical Portraits, 1906, No. 123 ; Stuart Exhibition, 1889,
No. 197.
272 FREDERICK NORTH, EARL OF
GUILFORD
Sir Nathaniel Dance Holland.
B. 1732 ; entered Trinity College, 1749 ; Chancellor of the Exche-
quer and Leader of the House of Commons, 1767 ; First Lord
of the Treasury, 1770 ; K.G. and Chancellor of the University,
1772; succeeded as second Earl of Guilford, 1790; d. 1792.
Three-quarters length, seated three-quarters to 1. ; short white wi
tied with black bag ; clean-shaven face ; small lace cravat an
ruffles ; black and gold Chancellor's robes over rust-red clothes ;
ribbon of the Order of the Garter across breast ; dark back-
ground ; dark crimson curtain to r. Canvas 48£ x 39 in. [71.]
A similar picture is in the possession of Lord North.
Engraved by T. Burke, 1775.
Given to the University by Richard Henry Beaumont in 1805.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1906, No. 127.
273 THE SAME
John Bacon.
Bust, marble ; the head turned very slightly to 1. ; hair curled
at the sides, tied in bag behind ; clean-shaven face ; eyeballs in-
cised ; neck-cloth and frilled shirt ; collarless coat over waistcoat
of which three buttons are visible ; embroidered Chancellor's
robe ; ribbon of the Order of the Garter.
Bequeathed to the University by George James Williams, Esq., in
1806.
274 EMPRESS CATHERINE II OF RUSSIA
? after A. Roslin.
B. 1729 ; d. of Christian Augustus, Prince of Anhalt ; married in
1745 Peter III, who succeeded to the throne as Emperor and
was deposed and perhaps murdered, 1762 ; Catherine d. 1796.
Miniature, bust, slightly to 1., looking at spectator; powdered
hair dressed in curls with wreath of green bays and diamond
ornament ; white dress ; grey background. Water-colour on
ivory, oval, 1^ x 1^ in.
Given to the University by Mrs. Sutherland.
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275 GEORGE OAKLEY ALDRICH
B. 1722 (?); entered Merton College, 1739, at the age of 17;
M.A. 1745 ; M.D. 1755 ; Founder of the Aldrichian Professor-
ships by will dated 1795, and proved Jan. 1798, which came
into operation (after his wife's death) in 1803 ; d. 1797 (?).
Bust to r., the head facing the spectator ; scarlet fur-bordered cap ;
clean-shaven face ; scarlet coat lined with brown fur over white shirt
open at neck ; painted in an oval spandrel. Canvas 25J x 19J in.
[50.]
Given to the University by Miss Benson of East Retford, sister of
the widow of the subject, in 1837.1
In the Catalogue of 1840 this portrait is said to have been painted
in Italy.
276 GEORGE WASHINGTON
After J. A . Houdon.
B. 1732 ; headed the rebellion of the American Colonies against
England, 1774; first President of the United States, 1787;
d. 1799.
Bust, bronze, the head turned slightly to r., hair tied in a queue ;
clean-shaven face ; eyeballs incised ; no drapery ; inscribed at
the back : GEORGE WASHINGTON BY JEAN ANTOINE HOUDON 1788 FOR
OXFORD UNIVERSITY, ENGLAND, A GIFT FROM JONATHAN ACKERMAN
COLES, AN ALUMNUS OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK, U.S.A.
F. BARBEDIENNE FONDEUR. TIFFANY & CO.
An engraving from a similar bust was published in Philadelphia
in 1814.
Given to the University in 1902.
277 JOHN WILLS
Lewis Vaslet.
B. 1741 ; Scholar of Wadham College; Fellow, 1765 ; D.D. and
Warden, 1783 ; benefactor to his college, and to the University ;
d. 1806.
Bust, three-quarters to r. ; white bushy wig ; clean-shaven face ;
bands ; scarlet and black D.D. gown and black scarf over black
cassock ; dark background. Pastel on paper, 10J x 8J in. (oval).
,.
Signed and dated on the back : L. VASLET OF BATH FECIT 1790.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1906, No. 151*.
1 Aldrich, of whom little is recorded, named as his executors John Gaily Knight
and Samuel Smith of Nottingham. His name was added to the List of Bene-
factors in 1816. See minutes of the Hebdomadal Board.
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278 LOUISE, QUEEN OF PRUSSIA
B. 1776, at Hanover, d. of Karl Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz ; m.
in 1793 the Crown Prince Frederick William, who succeeded as
King of Prussia in 1797 ; mother of Frederick William IV and of
the Emperor William I ; d. 1810.
Miniature, enclosed in a gold and turquoise bracelet; bust, to
1., the head turned towards spectator ; youthful face ; hair with a
dash of powder, dressed high in curls ; low-cut white gown with
high collar at the back; gold-patterned ribbon over her 1.
shoulder and round waist. Water-colour on ivory, If x 1| in.
Given by the Emperor William I to the biographer of the subject,
Miss Elizabeth Harriot Hudson, who bequeathed it to the
Bodleian in 1894.
279 MRS. FRANCES SUTHERLAND
John Smart.
Daughter of . . Beckwith ; married as his first wife, A. H.
Sutherland ; d. before 1812.
Miniature, bust, three-quarters to 1. ; powdered hair tied with
a blue ribbon ; low-necked blue dress ; white scarf round shoul-
ders ; grey background. Water-colour on ivory, 1^ x 1^ in.
This and the fellow miniature of A. H. Sutherland, originally fine,
are much faded.
280 CHARLES BURNEY
Joseph Nollekens.
B. 1726 ; pupil of Thomas Augustus Arne, 1744 ; D.Mus., Oxford,
1769 ; Organist at Chelsea Hospital, 1783 ; published accounts of
his foreign travels, a History of Music, and musical compositions ;
d. 1814.
Bust, plaster ; the head turned to 1. ; short hair brushed back ;
clean-shaven face ; eyeballs incised ; in gown and hood with bands.
Appears in the Catalogue of 1806. The original bust was exhibited
at the Royal Academy in 1802.
281 ALEXANDER HENDRAS SUTHERLAND
John Smart.
B. 1753 ; of Gower Street, London ; sometime Captain of St. Giles'
Volunteer Infantry ; J.P. ; F.S.A. ; began his great collection of
prints and drawings in illustration of Clarendon and Burnet in
1795, and devoted twenty-three years to the work, which was con-
tinued and almost doubled by his second wife Charlotte and by her
given to the Bodleian Library in 1837 ; d. 1820.
XVIII
No. 283. NAPOLEON
No. 289. E. E. WILLIAMS- No. 281. A. H. SUTHERLAND
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Miniature, bust, three-quarters to 1., looking at the spectator ; clean-
shaven face ; powdered wig ; white neckcloth and cravat ; rust-red
coat ; grey background. Water-colour on ivory, oval, If X 1| in.
Given to the University by Mrs. Charlotte Sutherland (b. 1782 ;
m. 1812 ; d. 1852 ;) of Merrow, Surrey, second wife of A. H.
Sutherland, and daughter of the Rev. William Hussey, Rector of
Sandhurst, Kent.
382 THE SAME
Bust, to r., looking at the spectator ; white hair and slight whiskers ;
white collar and shirt frill ; yellow waistcoat, dark brown coat.
Canvas 30 x 25 in. (Placed with the Sutherland Collection.)
283 NAPOLEON I
Giuseppe Longhi.
B. 1768 (?) ; Emperor of the French, 1804 ; exiled, 1815 ; d. at
St. Helena, 1821.
Miniature, bust, in profile to 1. ; straight hair, a lock over the fore-
head ; clean-shaven face ; dark uniform with pale facings ; high
collar showing white collar and black stock beneath ; epaulettes,
ribbon, and star ; signed to r. Longhi f. a Milano. Pencil draw-
ing, 3| x 3J in.
Inscribed on the back: BEQUEATHED TO THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY BY
CAPTAIN MONTAGU MONTAGU A.D. APRIL 1864.
Framed beneath this portrait is the following letter :—
Monsieur,
Puisque vous aimez savoir a quelle epoque, ou, et dans quelle circostance
[sic] j'ai trace le portrait de Napoleon au crayon, que je viens de vous ceder,
en voici 1'histoire.
En 1801 j'ai etc nomme comme membre de la consulte cisalpine qui se
rendit a Lyon pour arranger sous la presidence de Napoleon (alors premier
consul) la costitution [M'C] de mon pays. Apres avoir tout termine", le premier
Consul vint presider lui-meme 1'assemblee cisalpine, sachant qu'il devoit etre elu
President de notre Republique, a la quelle il donna dans la meme circostance
le nom de Republique Italienne.
Je me trouvais assi peu loin de lui dans le terns qu'un orateur assez prolixe
et flatteur faisoit le recit de bien de mots vides de sens et de gout. Peut-etre
Bonaparte n'y faisoit aucune attention, mais il le regardoit pensif, se trouvant
vis a vis de lui, et songeant a quelque chose de plus important. Je le voypis
en profil tel qu'il est represente dans mon dessein et un' excellente lumiere
qui venoit de la grande fenetre de la facade de 1'eglise, ou nous etions
assemble marquoit (on ne peut mieux) les moindres traits de sa physionomie.
L'ebauche fort avance a reussi parfaitement de fa^on qu'il ne m est reste que
bien peu a faire pour le terminer. Tout le monde tant a Lyon qu'a Paris, ou
890 I
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je me suis rendu apres, 1'a juge pour le plus ressemblant des portraits a cette
epoque de cet homme extraordinaire.
Voici Monsieur ce que je puis vous dire a 1'egard de ce portrait. Je suis &
vos ordres l
Tout devoue
Milan ce 4 juin 1828. Jph Longhi.
Bequeathed to the University by Captain Montagu Montagu, R.N.,
of Bath, 1863 ; received in 1864.
284 THE SAME
Bust, marble, much smaller than life, the head slightly to 1. ;
straight hair, a lock over the forehead ; clean-shaven face ; collar
showing over high folded stock ; double-breasted coat embroidered
or laced, closely buttoned with high collar behind ; 7-J inches high,
on black marble pillar 5 inches high.
Bequeathed to the University by Captain Montagu in 1863.
285 THE SAME, AFTER DEATH
Lieut. -Colonel John Ward.
Three-quarters length figure, lying to 1. on a couch, the head in
profile propped on a pillow and bolster ; cocked hat ; clean-
shaven face ; eyes only partly closed ; in uniform, three orders
on breast ; the 1. arm lying by side ; inscribed NAPOLEON ON HIS
DEATH BED, ST. HELENA, 1821. FROM AN ORIGINAL SKETCH BY LT
COLONEL WARD. \Copy l>y the artist .] Pencil Drawing 5 x 7f in.
At the back, under glass, is the following letter : —
14 Monmouth Road, Bayswater, London.
My dear Rigaud, 13 March /62.
I now send you the long-promised sketch of Napoleon which I trust you
will consider worth your acceptance. Harriet unites with me in kindest
regards, and I remain very sincerely yours, J. Ward.
Napoleon after death, — The face had a remarkably placid expression,
and indicated mildness and sweetness of disposition. Those who gazed on the
features as they lay in the still repose of death could not help exclaiming
4 How beautiful'. '
The head was so large as to be disproportioned to the rest of the body, and
the forehead was very broad and full. The skin was perfectly white and
delicate, and notwithstanding the accumulation of external fat, the whole
frame was slender and effeminate. On the left leg near the ankle was a scar
which appeared to have been occasioned by a wound. He died on Saturday
evening the 5th May, 1821. The accompanying sketch was taken from the
original one which was drawn on the spot by LA Colonel John Ward, then
an ensign in the 66th regiment.
Given to the University by the Rev. John Rigaud, B.D. (to whom
the letter is addressed) on June 29, 1888.
1 I have only corrected and added a few accents.
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286 PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Malcolm Stewart, after G. Clint # Amelia Curran.
B. 1792; entered University College, 1810; poet; drowned off
Viareggio, 1822.
Half length, slightly to 1., looking at the spectator ; rough fair
hair ; clean-shaven face ; dark blue coat, over white shirt with
wide collar open at throat ; the right arm rests on red-covered
table, a pen in the hand ; inscribed M. STEWART 1900, AFTER CLINT.
Canvas 23J x 19£ in. [319.]
Given to the University in Feb. 1903 by Mr. Lionel Cust, M.V.O.,
then Keeper of the National Portrait Gallery.
Clint's portrait in the National Portrait Gallery is itself based upon
a painting by Miss Amelia Curran done in Rome in 1819 and
a drawing by Captain E. E. Williams. No. 286 is a revision of
Clint's portrait made with the aid of Miss Curran's original.
287 THE SAME
A drawing in crayons by a German artist, probably of the head in
Miss Curran's portrait, but showing differences from both ; open
shirt collar, coat barely indicated. Canvas, oval, 20 x 16 in.
[320.]
Given to the University by Jane, Lady Shelley, June 13, 1893.
Lady Shelley had the portrait by Miss Curran in her possession
until 1899, when it passed at her death to the National Portrait
Gallery.
288 THE SAME
Reginald Easton after Louis Antoine Philippe, due de Montpensier.
Miniature, bust, head of a child, facing the spectator; the head
three-quarters to r. ; long curly flaxen hair ; wide lace collar ;
blue tunic ; puce-coloured cloak lined with white. Water-colour
drawing, 3| x 3 in.
Given to the University by Jane, Lady Shelley, in 1893.
The original, now in possession of Sir John Shelley of Avington,
Alresford, Bart., was formerly in the collection of the Ladies of
Llangollen.1 The Due de Montpensier, brother of King Louis
Philippe, lived at Twickenham between 1800 and 1807, and
may have drawn the miniature during Shelley's residence at Sion
House School, Brentford, between 1802 and 1806, in which year
he went to Eton. It is reproduced in Dowden's Life of Shelley, i.
1 I owe this information to the kindness of Mr. Buxton Forman.
I 2
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289 EDWARD ELLERKER WILLIAMS
B. 1793 ; educated at Eton ; served in India in the 8th Dragoons ;
married Jane Cleveland, 1819; visited Geneva, 1820; settled
at Pisa, 1821 ; he and his wife became friends of the Shelley s ;
drowned with Shelley in the yacht Ariel, July 8, 1822.
Miniature, bust, to 1., looking at the spectator ; fair, rough hair ;
youthful clean-shaven face ; white stock and shirt frill ; dark
blue coat and white waistcoat; cloudy blue sky background.
Water-colour on ivory, 2^ x 2| in.
At the back a lock of hair is held in place by the initials E.E.W.
in gold wire.
Given to the Bodleian in 1901 by the grandson of the subject, Percy
Edward Williams of Montbel, Hunter's Hill, N.S.W., through
his brother, Mr. J. W. Williams.
290 JOHN PHILIP KEMBLE
After John Flaxman.
B. 1757 ; educated for the Roman Catholic priesthood at Douay ;
acted at Drury Lane Theatre, 1783; manager from 1788;
manager of Covent Garden Theatre, 1803 ; d. 1823.
Bust, plaster, smaller than life, the head facing the spectator;
short hair parted in the middle ; clean-shaven face ; as Cato
in classical drapery.1
A paper pasted at the back records the bequest of the head by
John Power Hicks, M.A., in 1895.
291 SHUTE BARRINGTON
B. 1734; Fellow of Merton College, 1755; Canon of Christ Church,
1761; D.C.L. 1762; Bishop of Llandaff, 1769, of Salisbury,
1782, and of Durham, 1791 ; d. 1826.
Half length, three-quarters to 1. ; white bushy wig ; clean-shaven
face ; black dress ; three-cornered hat under his 1. arm ; dark
background. Canvas 29 x 24J in. [316.]
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1906, No. 182.
The bishop was painted by Romney in 1786, a portrait which hangs
in the house of the Regius Professor of Pastoral Theology; by
John Russell in 1790, by William Owen in 1811 and 1824, and
by E. Hastings in 1821, the portrait now at Balliol College.
Those by Russell and Owen were exhibited in the Royal Academy
in the years given.
1 Perhaps after the head in the monument once in Westminster Abbey.
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292 WILLIAM FLETCHER
Jubber1
B. 1739; Founder of the Old Bank in Oxford; three times
Mayor ; an antiquary to whom is due the preservation of much
of value in Oxford ; a benefactor to the Bodleian — the giver
of some beautiful painted glass and a few portraits — and to
Yarnton; d. in a house opposite the old Ashmolean Museum,
Dec. 27, 1826.2
Bust, plaster, the head facing the spectator ; short bushy wig ; clean-
shaven face ; eyeballs slightly incised ; neck-cloth ; coat with
three buttons, of which the two lower are fastened ; the plinth
inscribed ALDERMAN WILLIAM FLETCHER, DONOR OF THESE WINDOWS.
293 LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
?J. N. Schaller.
B. 1770 at Bonn ; settled at Vienna 1792 ; d. 1827.
Bust, plaster cast, facing the spectator ; thick hair brushed back ;
clean-shaven face ; eyeballs incised ; looking upwards ; loose
drapery.
Cast from a bust modelled in Vienna in 1826 for Beethoven's friend
Carl Holz, at whose death, in 1858, it passed to Frau Linzbauer.
She gave it in 1870 to the Royal Philharmonic Society of London,
in whose possession it now is.3
294 FRANCIS DOUCE
?Chatterton Smith.
B. 1757 ; Keeper of Manuscripts in the British Museum, antiquary
and author ; bequeathed his MSS. and other collections to the
University; d. 1834.
Half length, seated slightly to 1. in an arm-chair ; clean-shaven
face ; dark coat with large collar ; both arms resting on arms of
chair. Drawing in pencil, 9 X 7 in.
1 The attribution of this bust to an artist named Jubber rests on a MS. note
in the handwriting of Norris in the copy of his catalogue which lies on the table
of the present janitor of the Bodleian. Norris was janitor from 1835 to 1877 and
compiled a Catalogue of the contents of the Picture Gallery with the help, it is
said, of Dr. Bliss. A family of the name of Jubber resided in Oxford in the early
part of the nineteenth century, and persons of the name occur in the rate-books.
2 Cf. Mrs. Stapleton's Three Oxfordshire Parishes, p. 248, where the month
and year are both wrongly given as Oct. 1827. The correct dates are taken
from the gravestone in Yarnton Church. Alderman Fletcher's will was proved
in the spring of 1827.
3 The bust was fetched from Vienna by Sir W. Cusins, and is preserved in
a chest, a cast only being exhibited at the concerts of the Society. — Musical
Times Beethoven special number, Dec. 15, 1892, 20.
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A paper pasted on the back of the frame is inscribed 'Francis
Douce, aetatis suae 73. Presented to the University Library by
the Rev. Edward Goddard, May 29, 1852. This drawing by
Chatterton Smith. Mr. Hogarth show'd me a drawing by C. S.
of Douce taken two years after this — evidently by the same hand
H. O. C.1 * The name here is possibly an error for Stephen Cat-
terson Smith, R.H.A. 1806-72, who drew portraits in black chalk.
295 EDWARD BURTON
Philip Corbet.
B. 1794 ; Student of Christ Church ; D.D. and Regius Professor
of Divinity, 1829 ; d. 1836.
Three-quarters length, seated facing the spectator, the head turned
slightly to r. ; squinting eyes ; bald head ; grey hair ; clean-
shaven face ; white collar, stock, and bands ; black gown over
black cassock ; the 1. arm leaning on back of chair, the r. on
table on which lies an open illuminated MS. Panel 17| x 14£ in.
[66.]
Inscribed on the back : ' the Rev. Dr. Burton painted by P. Corbet.'
Given to the University by the subscribers to Dr. Burton's monu-
ment in 1839.2
A similar picture is in the house of the Regius Professor of
Divinity at Christ Church, concerning which Dr. Jacobson,
Professor in 1848, the donor, wrote to Dr. Ince about 1878, ' the
original conception of the portrait of Dr. Burton was to repre-
sent him in evening dress — knee-breeches and silk stockings . . .
This academical aspect was given to the portrait afterwards as
more likely to make it acceptable in Oxford . . . The picture
represents this second edition.1
A portrait by Philip Corbet was exhibited at the Royal
Academy in 1838.
296 JOHN IRELAND
Sir F. L. Chantrey.
B. 1761 ; educated at Oriel College ; Dean of Westminster, 1816 ;
Founder of Professorship and Scholarship called by his name ;
d. 1842.
Bust, marble, the head turned slightly to 1. ; short hair ; clean-
1 Mr. Hogarth of the Haymarket, London, was employed to restore pictures
in the Bodleian under the Librarianship of the Rev. H. O. Coxe.
2 Minutes of the Hebdomadal Board.
XIX
DEAN IRELAJ1D
No. 296. DEAN IRELAND
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shaven face ; coat with high collar indicated ; ribbon and badge
of the Order of the Bath round neck.
Inscribed at the back : —
JOHN IRELAND D.D., DEAN OF WESTMINSTER
CHANTREY 1829.
Given to the University by Dean Ireland in 1831, in response to
a request from the Hebdomadal Board: 'the bust on which
[Chantrey's] talents have been exerted with so much success.' l
297 MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY
Reginald Easton.
B. 1797, daughter of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft ;
married Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1816; author of Frankenstein;
edited Shelle/s works ; d. 1851.
Miniature, half length, slightly to r. ; fair hair dressed with fillet
across forehead; black lace veil over the head and falling
over shoulders, caught together at the breast with a bunch of
pansies ; white lace dress seen through it. Water-colour,
4£ x 3f in.
Said to be based on a bust modelled from a cast taken after death.
Given to the University by Jane, Lady Shelley, in 1894.
398 ARTHUR WELLESLEY, DUKE OF
WELLINGTON
Sir F. L. Chantrey.
B. 1769; created Duke of Wellington. 1813; Prime Minister,
1828 and 1834; Chancellor of the University from 1834; d. 1852.
Bust, marble, the head turned three-quarters to r. ; short hair,
clean-shaven face ; loose drapery ; signed, SIR F. CHANTREY, 1841.
299 FREDERICK WILLIAM ROBERTSON2
W. Pepper.
B. 1816; educated at Edinburgh University and Brasenose College;
incumbent of Trinity Chapel, Brighton, 1847 ; an influential
preacher ; d. 1853.
Bust, marble, the head turned slightly to 1. ; thick hair parted on
one side ; bushy whiskers ; shaven upper lip and chin ; loose
drapery ; signed at the back w. PEPPER SCR ; pedestal inscribed
1 Minutes of the Hebdomadal Board, Nov. 21, 1831.
2 See also mask of face and hands No. 326.
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IN MEMORIAM FREDERICI GULIELMI ROBERTSON AMICI POSUERE. NAT.
3 FEB. 1816, OB. 15 AUG. 1853.
Purchased by subscription and given to the University in 1862 ;
a medallion by the same sculptor was exhibited in the Royal
Academy in 1854.
300 MARTIN JOSEPH ROUTH
T. C. Thompson.
B. 1755; Fellow of Magdalen College, 1775; D.D. and President,
1791, for sixty-three years ; d. 1854.
Three-quarters length, seated almost facing the spectator in an
upholstered arm-chair ; short white wig ; clean-shaven face ;
white bands ; black gown over black clothes ; the r. hand holds
spectacles, the 1. on arm of chair; behind to r. three rows of
books, crimson curtain to 1. ; signed and dated below to r.
T. c. THOMPSON, R.H.A. 1851. Canvas 48 x 38 in. [206.]
The tablet on frame is inscribed : M. j. ROUTH D.D., IN THE 90TH
YEAR OF HIS AGE. PRESENTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD BY
A FEW OF HIS FRIENDS. PAINTED BY T. C. THOMPSON, R.H.A. 1851.
A copy of the original picture in the possession of Magdalen
College which no doubt was the one exhibited in the Royal
Academy as No. 494 in 1843, and copied for the Bodleian
in 1851.1
301 DANIEL WILSON
B. 1778 ; M.A. of St. Edmund Hall, 1804 ; D.D. 1832 ; first
Bishop of Calcutta 1832 ; was largely instrumental in getting
the Cathedral there built, of which a model, presented in 1845,
is in the Bodleian Library ; d. 1858.
Half length, facing the spectator ; dark brown hair ; clean-shaven
face ; white bands and stock ; black gown. Canvas 29 x 24 in.
[60.]
This picture came to the Gallery between 1840 and 1881. The
compiler has found no record of the giver or of the exact date.
302 BULKELEY BANDINEL
Thomas Kirkby.
B. 1781 ; Fellow of New College ; D. D. ; Bodley's Librarian
1813-60 ; assisted in producing an edition of Dugdale's
Monasticon 1817 ; published the last printed Catalogue ; d. 1861.
1 For the correspondence concerning it, and the names of the donors, see
Bloxam's Register of Magdalen College, vii. 32.
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Half length, seated three-quarters to 1. in red chair ; bald head,
dark brown hair at sides ; clean-shaven face ; white neckcloth
and bands ; black D.D. gown over black coat ; the 1. arm rests
on arm of chair, the hand only partly seen; green curtain
background. Canvas 30 x 24 in. [301.]
Inscribed on the back : — BULKELEY BANDINEL, D.D. BODLEY'S
LIBRARIAN, PAINTED BY THOS. KIRKBY 1825.
303 FREDERICK WILLIAM HOPE
B. 1797; educated at Christ Church; M.A. 1823; D.C.L. 1855;
F.R.S., F.L.S., and F.Z.S. ; Founder of the Professorship of
Zoology, 1861 ; donor of a great collection of engraved Portraits
to the University ; d. 1862.
Half length, slightly to r., looking at the spectator ; grey hair and
whiskers ; standing collar ; black silk stock in which is stuck
a pin in the form of a spray of lily of the valley ; black coat and
waistcoat ; watered silk black ribbon for eyeglass ; arms folded.
Black and white drawing on paper, 8f x 7 in.
Bequeathed by the widow of the subject in 1879.1
(In the Hope Collection of Portraits.)
304 WILLIAM SCHOMBERG ROBERT KERR,
MARQUESS OF LOTHIAN
G. F. Watts.
B. 1832; B.A. of Christ Church, 1854; succeeded as eighth
marquess, 1841 ; Founder of the Marquess of Lothian's Prize,
1870; d. 1870.
Bust, three-quarters to r., looking at the spectator ; brown hair,
moustache, and full red beard; white collar; black gown
and coat ; signed below to r. G. F. WATTS. Canvas 25 J x 20^ in.
[19.]
A tablet on frame is inscribed: IN MEMORIAM VIRI DILECTISSIMI
ET JUDICIO AMICORUM SUMMIS REIPUBLIC^ HONORIBUS DESTINATI
HANC TABULAM UNIVERSITATI QUAM INGENIO MORIBUS MUNIFICENTIA
ORNAVERAT, II QUORUM NOMINA SUPERSCRIPTA SUNT COMMENDAVERE.
DECESSIT A.D. MDCCCLXX. VIXIT TANTUM ANNOS XXXVII.
Given to the University in 1878 by the subscribers, whose names
are inscribed on either margin of the frame.
Exhibited at the Royal Academy as 'The late Marquess of
Lothian,' in 1875.
1 Minutes of the Hebdomadal Council, 1879.
122 PORTRAITS IN
305 GEORGE ORMEROD
John Jackson.
B. 1785 ; educated at Brasenose College ; D.C.L. 1818 ; RR.S.
1819 ; antiquary and author of A History of the County
Palatinate and City of Chester-, d. 1873.
Three-quarters length, seated to 1. in a high-backed arm-chair, the
head turned towards the spectator ; black hair ; slight whiskers ;
white neckcloth and frilled shirt ; double-breasted coat with high
dark velvet collar; his 1. hand holds the back of a large book,
the r., with spectacles, rests on knee ; two other volumes, one
labelled Cheshire MSS., the other Ing. P. M., vol. 2, on table
to r. ; signed and dated to r. J. JACKSON DET 1817. Water-colour
drawing, 10 x 8 in. Inscribed on the back : JAN. 25 1817. Inserted
in Ormerod's Cheshire, vi. 323, and given to the University by
George Wareing Ormerod in 1890.
Engraved by H. Meyer, 1819.
306 MRS. ELLEN HOPE
Daughter of George Meredith of Berrington Court, Worcestershire ;
m. Frederick William Hope 1835 ; benefactress to the University ;
d.!879(?).
Half length, to 1., looking at the spectator ; dark hair drawn over
the temples ; black lace veil at the back of head and falling over
shoulders ; ear-rings ; light low-cut dress trimmed with white lace
seen through transparent black shawl ; fine white chemisette at
breast; necklace and heavy brooch with pendant. Black and
white drawing on paper, 8| x 7 in.
Bequeathed by the subject in 1879.1
(In the Hope Collection of Portraits.)
307 HENRY OCTAVIUS COXE
G.F. Watts.
B. 1811 ; educated at Worcester College ; Bodley's Librarian,
1860-81 ; Rector of Wytham, Berkshire ; a distinguished scholar
and palaeographer ; d. 1881.
Half length, seated, three-quarters to 1. ; grey hair ; slight whiskers ;
white neckcloth and collar; M.A. hood and black gown over
black clothes. Canvas 28 x 21 in. [306.]
Painted for the subscribers and presented to the University in 1876.
Engraved by T. L. Atkinson, 1879.
1 Minutes of the Hebdomadal Council.
XX
No. 309. DEAN STANLEY
123.
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308 THE SAME
F. Tat ham.
Half length, to r., the head turned towards the spectator ; thick
brown hair ; clean-shaven face ; collar and black stock and tie ;
buff waistcoat showing shirt front ; black coat ; signed and dated
below to r. p. TATHAM, 1833. Water-colour drawing, 12 X 9^ in.
Given to the University by J. L. Foster, of 2 Clifton Place, Sussex
Square, London, in 1896.
309 ARTHUR PENRHYN STANLEY
G. F. Watts.
B. 1815 ; Scholar of Balliol College ; Fellow of University College,
1839 ; Professor of Ecclesiastical Historv and Canon of Christ
Church, 1858 ; Dean of Westminster, 1864 ; d. 1881.
Three-quarters length, seated three-quarters to 1. in green arm-
chair ; curly grey hair ; slight whiskers ; white tie ; black gown
over black clothes; red ribbon of the Order of the Bath as
dean of the Order round neck ; his arms supported on the arms
of the chair, the hands hanging over the ends; warm grey
background ; red curtain to 1. ; signed in white below to r.
G. F. WATTS. Canvas 41 x 35 in. [114.]
Given to the University by the subject in 1879.
310 MONTAGUE BERNARD
E. E. Geoflowski.
B. 1820 ; B.C.L. of Trinity College ; first Professor of International
Law, 1859-74; Fellow of All Souls College, 1870; D.C.L. ;
Member of University Commission, 1877 ; d. 1882.
Bust, plaster ; bald head, hair at sides ; whiskers and beard under
chin ; eyeballs incised ; no drapery.
Given to the University by the sister of the subject, Miss Bernard,
of Overcross, Ross, Herefordshire, in Nov. 1890.1 The bust is
apparently dated 1873.
311 JANE WILLIAMS
G. Clint.
B. c. 1800 ; sister of John Wheeler Cleveland of the Madras army ;
m. 1st, Edward Ellerker Williams, c. 1819 ; became a friend of
the Shelleys at Pisa, 1821 ; m. 2nd, in 1826, Thomas Jefferson
Hogg (d. 1862) ; d. 1884.
1 Minutes of the Hebdomadal Council.
124 PORTRAITS IN
Half length, seated slightly to r. the head turned facing the specta-
tor ; brown hair falling in ringlets over neck ; low-cut white silk
dress with very full sleeves and tight cuffs ; spray of scarlet fuchsia
at her breast ; the 1. arm rests on back of low chair in front of
her ; wedding-ring on finger. Canvas 30 x 25 in. [57.]
Presented to the University in 1906 by J. W. Williams, the grand-
son of the subject, at one time owner also of the guitar given to
her by Shelley, and now exhibited in the Gallery.1 George Clint
was a brother-in-law of Mrs. Williams, and the portrait was
painted about 1830.
312 PRINCE LEOPOLD, DUKE OF ALBANY
F. J. Williamson.
B. 1853; youngest son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of
Saxe-Coburg ; educated at Christ Church ; D.C.L. 1876 ;
d. 1884.
Bust, marble, the head turned slightly to r. ; short hair, parted in
the middle, moustache and imperial ; eyeballs incised ; in
uniform of the Seaforth Highlanders, a plaid over the 1. shoulder ;
he wears the Orders of the Garter and Thistle, the Star of India,
and family Orders.
Inscribed at the back H. R. H. PRINCE LEOPOLD, DUKE OF ALBANY
F. J. WILLIAMSON, SC. ESHER, 1884.
A bust of the Duke by this sculptor was exhibited by command of
Queen Victoria at the Royal Academy in 1883.
313 GtfDBRANDR VIGFT?SSON
H. M. Paget.
B. 1828 in Iceland ; studied in Copenhagen, 1849 ; came to Oxford,
1866 ; Lecturer in Icelandic in the University, 1884 ; edited
works on Icelandic literature, and, with F. York Powell, the
Corpus Poeticum Boreale; d. 1889.
Half length to 1., face almost in profile ; grey hair, moustache, and
beard ; white collar and shirt ; black tie ; brown cape over dark
grey coat ; name of subject above to 1., signed and dated H. M.
PAGET 1888. Canvas 30 x 25 in. [332.]
Bequeathed to the University by Frederick York Powell, Regius
Professor of Modern History, in 1904.
Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1890.
1 This guitar was made in Florence by Ferdinando Bottario in 1816. It
was preserved by Mrs. Williams's daughter Mrs. Lonsdale, and through the
effort of Mr. Silsbee (see No. 318) and Mr. J. W. Williams was given to the
Bodleian in 1906.— Cf. Introduction to the Itiary ofE. E. Williams, published by
Dr. R. Garnett.
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314 HENRY WENTWORTH ACLAND
Alexander Munro.
B. 1815 ; educated at Christ Church ; Fellow of All Souls College
1840; Regius Professor of Medicine 1858; created a baronet
1884 ; d. 1900.
Bust, plaster cast, facing the spectator ; curly hair ; young, clean-
shaven face ; no drapery.
Given to the University by Mr. T. W. Jackson.
(In the Hope Collection of Portraits.)
315 BENJAMIN JOWETT
H. R. Hope Pinker.
B. 1817 ; Scholar and Fellow of Balliol College ; Regius Professor
of Greek, 1855; Master of Balliol College from 1870; Hon.
Doctor of Theology, Leyden, 1875 ; LL.D. Edinburgh, 1884 ;
LL.D. Cambridge, 1890; d. 1893.
Bust, marble, facing the spectator ; head slightly bald, hair
plentiful and curly over ears ; slight side-whiskers, otherwise
clean shaven ; eyeballs incised ; turned-down collar and white
tie ; M.A. gown over dress clothes ; inscribed at the back, REV.
BENJAMIN JOWETT D.D. H. R. HOPE PINKER SCULP. 1896.
Given to the University by the subscribers Nov. 1896.
A bust was exhibited in the Royal Academy in 1892.
316 WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE
T. Woolner.
B. 1809 ; educated at Christ Church, and Fellow of All Souls
College ; M.P. for the University, 1847-65 ; Prime Minister in
1868, 1880, 1886, and 1892; d. 1898.
Bust, marble, facing the spectator, thick hair; whiskers; shaven
chin ; standing collar ; ample tie in a bow ; coat buttoned with
one button ; inscribed at the back, T. WOOLNER, sc., LONDON, 1866.
Given to the University by the subscribers in 1866.
The pedestal, decorated with reliefs, was exhibited in the Royal
Academy in 1868 ; the bust in 1869.
317 BARTHOLOMEW PRICE
Marmaduke Fowler.
B. 1818 ; Fellow of Pembroke College, 1844, Master 1891 ; F.R.S.
1852; Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy, 1853; d. 1898.
Three-quarters length, seated slightly to 1., looking at the spectator ;
126 PORTRAITS IN
hair, slight whiskers ; long white bands ; scarlet and black
). gown, and scarf; the r. arm rests on table, the hand
supporting the head, the 1. on knee ; table and bookcase to 1. ;
signed and dated above to 1. MARMADUKE FOWLER, 1900.
A replica from the portrait painted for the subscribers and
presented to Pembroke College ; given to the University by Mrs.
Bartholomew Price, widow of the subject, in 1900.
318 EDWARD AUGUSTUS SILSBEE
John S. Sargent.
B. 1826 ; of Salem, Massachusetts, ' an ardent admirer of Shelley's
genius,' presented to the Bodleian, June 21, 1898, the guitar
given by the poet to his friend Mrs. E. E. Williams ; d. 1900.
Bust, slightly to r., thick rough hair, white beard, and moustache ;
black coat ; signed and dated above, JOHN s. SARGENT 1899. Char-
coal drawing, 20f x 17f in.
Given to the University by the subject in 1899.
319 WILLIAM STUBBS
Sir Hubert von Herkomer.
B. 1825 ; educated at Christ Church ; Fellow of Trinity College,
1848 ; Regius Professor of Modern History, 1866 ; D.D. 1878 ;
Bishop of Chester, 1884, of Oxford, 1889; d. 1901.
Three-quarters length, seated in an arm-chair facing the spectator ;
the head slightly inclined to r. ; grey hair and whiskers ; black
coat and apron ; the 1. hand on lap, the r. holds arm of chair.
Canvas 40x36 in. [317.]
Given to the University by the subscribers in 1885.
Exhibited in the Royal Academy in 1887.
320 ADOLF NEUBAUER
Leonard Campbell Taylor.
B. 1832 at Kottejo in the district of Trencszyn in Hungary;
educated at the Universities of Prague and Munich ; Ph.D. ;
began to publish in Paris, 1857 ; official in the Austrian Con-
sulate of Jerusalem ; Sub-Librarian at the Bodleian, 1873 ; Hon.
Fellow of Exeter College ; Reader in Rabbinical literature, 1884 ;
retired 1899 to Vienna ; a highly distinguished Hebrew scholar ;
d. in London 1907.
Three-quarters length, seated facing the spectator, in a wooden arm-
chair ; head rather bald ; grey hair, moustache and short beard ;
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white collar and cuffs ; black M. A. gown over greenish-grey coat ;
closed folio volume held on knees with both hands; signed
and dated to r. LEONARD CAMPBELL TAYLOR 1900.
Painted for the subscribers and presented to the University in 1900.
321 JOHN CHURTON COLLINS
T. W. Holgate.
B. 1848; educated at Balliol College; University Extension
Lecturer ; critic and author ; Professor of English Literature at
Birmingham ; d. 1908.
Half length, facing the spectator; brown hair and moustache; turned-
down collar ; red tie passed through a ring ; light waistcoat ;
M.A. gown over dark coat ; his r. hand points to the page of an
open book supported by his 1. ; signed T. w. HOLGATE. Canvas
36x29 in.
Presented to the University by the subscribers to the Churton
Collins Memorial Fund in 1909.
322 GOLDWIN SMITH
E. Wyly Grwr.
B. 1823; educated at Christ Church, Magdalen, and University
Colleges; Fellow of University, 1846; Regius Professor of
Modern History, 1858-66 ; Hon. Fellow of Oriel, 1867 ; went to
America, 1868 ; settled in Canada, 1871 ; D.C.L. 1882 ; d. 1910.
Nearly whole-length, seated slightly to r. in a wooden library chair,
the head nearly facing the spectator ; grey hair ; moustache
and whiskers ; white collar and shirt ; black tie ; black D.C.L.
gown with scarlet hood over dark clothes; gold- rimmed eye-
glasses hanging from waistcoat-button ; hands clasped, resting on
lap ; shields of arms of Oriel, Magdalen, and University Colleges
above to r. ; inscribed to r. AET. 72, signed and dated below to 1.
E. WYLY GRIER 1894. Canvas 54 x 42 in. [212.]
On label on the back is written : PORTRAIT OF PROFESSOR GOLDWIN
SMITH, SOMETIME REGIUS PROFESSOR OF MODERN HISTORY AT OXFORD.
TO BE PRESENTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD BY PROFESSOR
GOLDWIN SMITH. E. WYLY GRIER. C./O. CHAPMAN BROTHERS.
323 THE SAME
Alexander Munro.
Bust, plaster cast, parted hair and whiskers ; no drapery.
Given to the University by Mr. T. W. Jackson.
(In the Hope Collection of Portraits.)
128 PORTRAITS IN THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY
324 WILLIAM DUNN MACRAY
Henry Scott TuJce.
B. 1826 ; academical clerk of Magdalen College, 1844 ; Chaplain,
1856 ; Fellow, 1891 ; assistant librarian in the Bodleian, 1840-
1905 ; Rector of Ducklington, 1870 ; D.Litt. ; F.S.A. ; cata-
logued the Rawlinson, Digby, and Clarendon manuscripts ; pub-
lished the Register of the Fellows of Magdalen College.
Bust, to r., white hair and whiskers ; spectacles ; white collar ; black
undress Doctor's gown over black coat and waistcoat ; gold watch-
chain ; rich blue background. Canvas 26J x 21 J in.
Presented to the University in commemoration of Dr. Macray's
nearly seventy-five years' membership of the College and the
College school, and more than sixty-five years' service in the
Bodleian Library, by the President and Fellows of Magdalen
College, 1910.
324 a. GEORGE FREDERICK BODLEY '
Thomas Murphy.
B. 1827; architect; R.A. 1902; F.S.A., D.C.L; d. 1907.
Bust, plaster partly painted, facing the spectator ; eyes deeply
incised ; head, with short hair, moustache and beard, white ;
white collar ; blue tie passed through a ring ; red D.C.L. gown
over black coat and waistcoat ; gold watch-chain and seals ; the
plinth inscribed with the name of the subject and PRESENTED BY
HIS FORMER PUPIL EDWARD PRIOLEAU WARREN, 1911, and signed
THOMAS MURPHY SC. 1911.
1 This portrait reached the Bodleian when these pages were in the last stage
of revision, too late to insert in its exact place.
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129
DEATH MASKS
325 WILLIAM HAZLITT
B. 1778 ; essay writer ; d. 1830.
Plaster mask of face.
326 FREDERICK WILLIAM ROBERTSON
B. 1816 ; well-known preacher ; d. 1853.
Models of the face and hands taken after death and given to the
University by his daughter Lady Shuckburgh, in 1902 (see
No. 299).
327 RAMSAY RICHARD REINAGLE, R.A.
B. 1775 ; a painter ; d. 1862.
Plaster cast of face and hands.
The following portraits were known to Gutch and appear in his
Catalogue of the contents of the Bodleian in 1796. They have
since his time disappeared or received other designations : —
Dr. William Gilbert, on panel, dated 1591, already decayed in
1796 ; has since disappeared ; engraved in Harding's Biographical
Mirrour, ii. 33.
John Anstis, whole length, given by Lewis Stephens in 1750,
decayed in 1796 ; has since disappeared.
King Henry IV of France, on copper, at one time in the Ashmolean ;
has disappeared.
Ben Jonson, a second portrait, at one time in the Ashmolean
Museum ; has disappeared.
Sir Henry Spelman, bequeathed by Dr. Rawlinson ; untraced.
Salomon Negri, Damascenus, 1718, by Hill, bequeathed by Dr.
Rawlinson ; untraced.
Rev. Joseph White, by M. W. Peters ; was applied for and given back
to the family ; it was engraved.
Patrick Ruthven, Earl of Brentford. See No. 107.
Edward Benlowes. See No. 101.
890 K
130 DEATH MASKS
Prince Maurice of Orange Nassau. See No. 106.
Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury. See No.
Thomas Wharton, M.D., by Wollaston, untraced.
Archbishop Lancelot Blackburne. See No. 250,
Admiral Tromp : now in the Ashmolean Museum, called Portrait
of a Young Man, by P. J. Codde.
Count Axel Oxenstierna. See No. 446 in the Ashmolean.
Frederigo Zuccaro. See No. 409 in the Ashmolean.
Cardinal Bentivoglio : now in the Ashmolean.
Dr. James Hyde. See No. 229.
Christopher Columbus. See No. 404 in the Ashmolean.
Dr. Thomas Marshall. Mentioned only in the Library accounts
for 1698.
Sir John Godsalve, ? by John Betts, engraved in Harding's Bio-
graphical Mirrour, 1792, i. 36, as in Bodleian. Not now to be
found.
131
PORTRAITS IN THE CONVOCATION
HOUSE
328 WILLIAM SCOTT, LORD STOWELL
William Owen.
B. 1745 ; Scholar of Corpus Christi College, 1761 ; Fellow of
University College, 1765 ; D.C.L. 1779 ; Camden Professor of
Ancient History, 1773-85 ; Judge of the High Court of
Admiralty, 1798-1828 ; Burgess for the University, 1801-21 ;
created Baron Stowell, 1821 ; d. 1836.
Whole length, seated three-quarters to 1. in a red and gilt arm-chair ;
as a judge of the Admiralty Court ; grey judge's wig ; clean-
shaven face ; white lace cravat and ruffles ; black gown ; both
hands supported on arms of chair ; table with turkey cover to
r. ; background, red and green curtains to 1., sky through opening
to r. Canvas 80 x 62£ in.
This and the companion portrait of Lord Eldon were painted for
Lord Stowell, 1811-16, and were presented to the University by
his daughter and her husband Lord and Lady Sidmouth in
1838, * in testimony of our own high Respect of the University
and as memorials of two of its most distinguished ornaments.'1
Another pair of similar portraits is in the possession of the Earl
of Eldon ; a third is in the Guildhall at Newcastle-on-Tyne.
329 JOHN SCOTT, LORD ELDON
William Owen.
B. 1751 ; Fellow of University College, 1767 ; D.C.L., and High
Steward of the University, 1801 ; Lord Chancellor, 1801 ;
created Earl of Eldon, 1821 ; visited Oxford, 1834 ; d. 1838.
Whole length, seated in a red arm-chair facing the spectator ; long
grey judge's wig ; clean-shaven face ; lace cravat and ruffles ;
Chancellor's black and gold robe over black clothes ; his r. hand
holds Chancellor's purse, with long red cords and tassels, on his
knee, the 1. rests on his lap ; on green-covered table to 1. lies the
mace ; red curtain and dark architectural background ; red and
green carpet. Canvas 81 x 60 in.
Engraved by F. Finden.
1 Minutes of the Hebdomadal Board. See also Twiss' Life oj Lord Eldon, Hi.
313, ii. 224.
132
PORTRAITS IN THE SHELDONIAN
THEATRE
330 GILBERT SHELDON
Ascribed to Sir P. Lety.
B. 1598 ; Fellow of All Souls College, 1622 ; Warden, 1636 ; Bishop
of London, 1660 ; Archbishop of Canterbury, 1663 ; Chancellor
of the University, and Donor of the Sheldonian Theatre ; d. 1677.
Whole length, seated to 1. in a leathern arm-chair; black cap;
short dark hair hanging over forehead ; slight moustache, and tuft
on chin ; square collar ; rochet and black chimere ; his r. hand
holds on his knee an open book with blue and gold ties;
his 1., resting on the arm of the chair, holds handkerchief; his
feet are placed on a red velvet tasselled cushion ; to 1., a table
with books and papers ; architectural background ; a model of
the Sheldonian Theatre is seen to 1. Canvas 86 x 53 in.
The tablet is inscribed ; VENERANDAM HANC AMPLISSIMI FUNDATORIS
PRO-PATRUI SUI COLENDISSIMI EFFIGIEM JUDITH ET MARIA SHELDON
DANIELIS FILING ET COH.«REDES: IN J5DIBUS SHELDONIANIS COLLOCARI
F. IX KAL. FEB. 1721.
Hearne records on Feb. 7, 1722 1 ' Yesterday was fix'd in the Theatre
a Picture, at large, of Archbp Sheldon.1 In 1713 it was in the
possession of a relative of the Archbishop living near Hanover
Square.2
In the Theatre account for 1799 occurs a payment ' for cleaning and
repairing the Portraits of Sir Christopher Wren, the Duke
of Ormond, and Archbishop Sheldon, and for cleaning and gild-
ing of the Frames and Brackets £%& . 10.'
331 JAMES BUTLER, DUKE OF ORMONDE
Copy from Sir Peter Lety.
B. 1610 ; K.G., 1649 ; created duke, 1661 ; Chancellor of the
University, 1669; d. 1688.
Whole length, standing slightly to 1. ; flaxen periwig falling over
shoulders ; clean-shaven face ; lace cravat ; robes of the Order
1 Collections, vii. 326.
2 Vertue, MS. Add. 21111, p. 99. ' Enquire of Mr. Hill, painter ' is added to
the note. Chaloner Smith ascribes this portrait to Lely.
THE SHELDONIAN THEATRE 133
of the Garter over cloth-of-silver dress ; his r. hand holds a
wand of office, his 1. his plumed hat ; architectural and curtain
background. Canvas 89 x 70 in.
Copy by Edmund Ashfield from the picture in the possession of
the Duke of Devonshire.
Anthony Wood mentions that this picture is by Ashfield;
Hearne adds that it was * from the original drawing by Sir Peter
Lelly ' ; it was in the Bodleian Gallery in 1679.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 159.
332 NATHANIEL CREW
B. 1633 ; Fellow of Lincoln College ; Rector, 1668 ; Bishop of
Oxford, 1671, of Durham, 1674 ; succeeded as third Baron, 1697 ;
benefactor to the University ; d. 1721.
Whole length, standing three-quarters to r. ; dark hair to neck ;
slight moustache ; square collar ; long scarlet chimere over
rochet; scarf; his r. hand holds small book, his 1., gloved, holds
glove ; the crozier leans against the table to r., on which is a
large jewelled mitre; architectural background; inscribed
NATHANIEL LORD CREW, BISHOP OF OXFORD 1671 OF DURHAM 1674
OB. 1721 ^T 88. Canvas 92 x 56 in.
This picture was given to the University as 'an original portrait' by
Sir John English Dolben in 1818.1
333 SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN
Antonio Verrio, Sir Godfrey Kneller, and Sir James ThornhUl.
B. 1632; Fellow of All Souls, 1653; Professor of Astronomy at
Gresham College, 1657-61, at Oxford, 1661-73; D.C.L.; a
leader among the founders of the Royal Society ; built the Shel-
donian Theatre, 1663-9 ; knighted, 1674 ; d. 1723.
Whole length, seated three-quarters to 1. ; grey periwig falling
over shoulders; clean-shaven face; white cravat and ruffles;
purplish grey suit braided with gold ; blue drapery over his 1.
arm ; his 1. hand holds a plan of St. Paul's Cathedral, his r.
points to a celestial globe which stands on the ground beside a
bust, mathematical instruments, and an open volume showing
the design for the Sheldonian Theatre ; to r. is a telescope with
1 Minutes of the Hebdomadal Board, Nov. 16, 1818. The tablet on the frame,
no doubt renewed, gives the date incorrectly as 1825.
134 THE SHELDONIAN THEATRE
other instruments grouped round a table, upon which is an open
book of architectural designs ; architectural and curtain back-
ground, view of the Thames and City of London through opening
to 1. ; inscribed HANC TABULAM INVENIT & INCIPIT ANTON: VERRIO,
PERFECERUNT GOTHOFREDUS KNELLER & JAC: THORNHILL EQUITES.
Canvas 92 x 70 in.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1906, No. 2.
Marble statues of the Duke of Ormonde and Archbishop Sheldon by
Sir Henry Cheere were placed in niches on the south front of the Theatre in
1737. A figure of King Charles II in classical armour stands over the door on
the north side.
135
PORTRAITS IN THE CLARENDON
BUILDING
334 QUEEN ANNE
B. 1665 ; second daughter of King James II and Anne Hyde : m.
George, Prince of Denmark, 1683; succeeded to the throne,
1702; visited Oxford, 1683, 1688, 1702; and 1708; d. 1714.
Whole length, seated slightly to r. on a raised red dais, the head
turned facing the spectator ; grey hair dressed high in curls with
a ringlet on the r. shoulder ; low-cut cloth-of-gold bodice edged
with blue ; the basque and short full sleeves edged with ermine ;
skirt of the same material trimmed with jewels ; lace ruffles at
elbows ; blue velvet ermine-lined mantle ; pearl girdle, and pearls
on bodice and sleeves ; her r. hand touches jewel at breast ; her
1. open, supported by arm of chair. Crown on table to 1. ;
architectural background, sky to r. Canvas 92J x 57-| in.
Tablet on frame inscribed: GEORGIUS CLARKE, LL.D. COLL. OMN.
ANIM. SOCIUS ET HUJUS UNIVERSITATIS SAEPIUS BURGENSIS REGNANTE
ANNA & DOMINI COMMISSIONARIIS PRO OFFICIO DNI MAGNI ADMIRALLI
UNUS D.D. M.D.CCXVIII.1
Hearne notes, March 28, 1717, ' that one of the best Rooms in the
new Printing House ... is imploy'd to no other use than meeting
of the Delegates of the Press. There is a Picture in it (hung over
the Chimney) of the late Queen Ann.' 2 [Delegates' Room.
334 a WILLIAM LAUD3
?H. LeSueur
B. 1573; Chancellor of the University, 1630; d. 1645.
Bust, terra-cotta, painted brown ; inscribed GUIL. LAUD ARCHIEPIS.
CANT.
Similar to No. 103 and purchased with it in 1734.
334 b EDWARD HYDE, EARL OF CLARENDON3
Sir Henry Cheere.
B. 1609; Chancellor of the University, 1660; d. 1674.
Bust, terra-cotta, painted brown ; long hair on to shoulders, slight
1 The date has been made and kept incorrect in recent restorations.
2 Hearne, Collections, vi. 34.
3 These heads, painted to match the dark woodwork of the room, at first view
escaped the notice of the compiler. A statue stands on the south front of the
Building.
186 THE CLARENDON BUILDING
moustache and tuft on chin; square collar; buttoned coat;
ribbon with lesser George; inscribed EDWARDUS COMES DE
CLARENDEN.
In the Vice-Chancellor's accounts for 1738 occurs the item ' Paid
Cheere for Ld Clarendon's Bust and carriage £3 .17.7'.
335 ROBERT POOLE FINCH
James Northcote.
B. 1724 ; educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge, M. A. 1747 ; D.D.
1772 ; Rector of St. Michael's, Cornhill ; Prebendary of West-
minster, 1781 ; a preacher of some distinction ; d. 1803.
Almost whole length, seated three-quarters to 1., in a red chair;
white bushy wig ; clean-shaven face ; square bands ; black silk
gown over black clothes ; his r. hand holds small open book with
two clasps bound in white vellum ; his 1. rests on an open folio
volume which lies on table covered with a turkey cloth to r. ; red
curtain background ; signed and dated above to r. JAMES
NORTHCOTE, PINK. 1791. Canvas 67£ x 43 \ in.
Bequeathed to the University by the Rev. Robert Finch, grandson
of the subject, in 1830. Long anonymous, it has now been
identified by means of an entry in the inventory of the Finch
bequest preserved in the University archives.
A portrait of Dr. Finch occurs in the list of Northcote's works
under the year 1791. l [Chest Office.
336 PHILIP BLISS
B. 1787; Fellow of St. John's CoUege, 1809; D.C.L. 1820; Sub-
Librarian of the Bodleian Library, 1822-8 ; Registrar of the
University, 1824-53 ; Keeper of the Archives, 1826-57 ; Princi-
pal of St. Mary Hall, 1848-57 ; d. 1857.
Three-quarters length, seated three-quarters to 1. ; white hair and
whiskers ; white collar, neck-cloth, bands and frilled shirt ; black
gown over black coat and waistcoat and dark grey trousers ; gold
watch-chain ; his r. hand holds college cap on his knee ; his 1.
rests on arm of chair ; warm grey background inscribed AET. 62
1850. Millboard 13 x 11 in.
The book-plate of subject is pasted on back.
Engraved by F. Holl. [Registrar's Office.
1 Memorials of Northcote.
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PORTRAITS IN THE EXAMINATION
SCHOOLS
NOTE
The portraits now hanging in the Examination Schools fall, with
two exceptions, into two well-defined groups. The State Portraits
of Chancellors and Sovereigns were removed from the Bodleian
Gallery and staircase in 1910. They were placed there when they
were acquired because the Schools Gallery was the recognized
University Picture Gallery, but they cannot be said to belong to
the Bodleian collection in any other more definite way. The por-
traits of the Emperor William II and of Lord Carlingford have
never been within the walls of the Bodleian at all.
The second group — formed of portraits of musicians — is unique
of its kind in England. It had its origin in the idea, to which
attention has already been drawn, that the building where a
special study is pursued should contain the portraits of the men
who have illumined it. These portraits were hung — until the room
was absorbed into the Library — in the old Music School in the
south-east corner of the Bodleian Quadrangle It is not recorded
how the earliest portraits came into the possession of the University.
Probably the collection was begun with the portrait of Dr. Heather,
the Founder of the Lecture ; we know that Henry Lawes, Nicholas
Lanier, and John Wilson (whose picture is dated 1655), presented
their own portraits, and from about that time forwards through
the seventeenth century almost every portrait is the gift of the
subject. Many of them are mentioned by Wood in the Fasti.
In 1780 Dr. Philip Hayes, repaired and improved the accommoda-
tion of the Music School, and greatly added to the number of
pictures. His generosity stimulated other donations, which have
continued to our own time. Reynolds'^ portrait of Dr. Burney,
which the doctor himself gave, now hangs in the Ashmolean
Museum. In 1874, the University voted £350 for the restoration
of the collection. It was moved to the Council Chamber and the
adjoining room in the Examination Schools in 1884-5.
890 L
138
STATE PORTRAITS
337 QUEEN MARY II
Sir Godfrey Kneller.
B. 1662; elder daughter of King James II and Anne Hyde;
married William of Orange, afterwards King William III,
1677; crowned, 1689; d. 1694.
Whole length, standing slightly to 1. ; dark hair in curls, one long
curl on her r. shoulder. Coronation robes : low-necked blue
velvet bodice trimmed and edged with ermine and pearls, and
fastened in front with broad jewelled clasps; short sleeves
slashed ermine, showing the sleeves of her chemisette, laced and
gathered at the elbow ; train of blue velvet, edged with gold
lace and lined with ermine ; cloth-of-silver skirt, gold embroidered
and heavily ornamented down the front; her r. hand rests on
the orb which lies beside the crown on a table to 1. ; her 1. raises
a fold of her robe ; architectural and curtain background, view
of Whitehall through opening to 1. Canvas 93 J x 56^ in.
[106.]
Bequeathed to the University by Dr. George Clarke, 1736.
Engraved by J. Faber.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 161.
338 JAMES BERTIE, EARL OF ABINGDON
Michael DM.
B. 1654 ; third Baron Norreys of Rycote ; created Earl of Abing-
don, 1682 ; an active adherent of William III ; High Steward
of the City, 1687; d. 1699.
Whole length, standing slightly to r. ; long dark wig ; clean-shaven
face ; lace cravat ; rust-red velvet mantle lined with white silk
and edged with white fur, with deep ermine cape, over the same
coloured velvet coat lined with white fur ; black stockings and
buckled shoes ; sword-belt and sword ; his r. hand holds up a
fold of his cloak, his 1. rests, the knuckles down, on a marble-
topped gilt table on which lies his coronet; dark blue velvet
curtain behind to r. ; a column to 1. is inscribed : EFFIGIEM HANC
HONORATISSIMI DOMINI, JACOBI BERTIE, COMITIS DE ABINGDON, BARONIS
NORREYS DERY COTT I QU1 DE REGNO ET ECCLESIA ANGLICANA SUB
TRIBUS REGIBUS OPTIME MERUIT ; FUITQUE DIU FORRESTARUM REGIA-
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RUM CIS TRENTAM JUSTITIARIUS CAPITALIS, OXONIENSIS COMITATUS
PRAEFECTUS FORTISSIMUS ; URBIS SENESCHALLUS FIDELISSIMUS ; ACA-
DEMIAE FAUTOR SEMPER AMICISSIMUS ; EIDEM ACADEMIAE MONTAGU,
FILIUS NATU-MAXIMUS, HONORUM ET VIRTUTUM HAERES DONO DEBIT.
Canvas 90x57^ in. [271.]
Given to the University by the son of the subject in 1700.
£1. 2s. was paid in that year for the carriage and frame.
A slightly different portrait belongs to the City, No. 748.
339 WILLIAM III
Ascribed to Sir G. Knetter.
B. 1650 at the Hague ; son of William II of Orange and Mary,
daughter of Charles I ; Hon. D.C.L. Oxford, 1670 ; m. Mary,
daughter of James, Duke of York ; declared King, 1689 ; d. 1702.
Whole length, standing facing the spectator, the head turned
slightly to 1. ; long light- brown wig ; clean-shaven face ; lace
cravat ; full white sleeves with lace ruffles ; in Coronation robes ;
blue velvet mantle bordered with gold, and lined and edged with
ermine, over long coat of the same materials with gold cape and
long open sleeves ; belted ; white silk breeches and stockings,
buff leather shoes with diamond buckles of different shapes;
collar with George and Garter of the Order of the Garter ;
sword ; the 1. hand holding fold of mantle ; the r. resting on
belt ; crown and orb on table covered with dull red patterned
cloth to r., two fluted columns, trees and cloudy sky to 1.
Canvas 95 x 57 in. [105.]
Bequeathed to the University by Dr. George Clarke, in 1737.
340 KING CHARLES XII OF SWEDEN
(?) George Engelhard Schroeder.
B. 1682 ; son of Charles XI and Ulrica of Denmark, succeeded to
the throne, 1697 ; conquered Poland, 1702 ; killed at the siege
ofFrederickshald, 1718.
Whole length, standing in a landscape facing the spectator ; brown
hair ; clean-shaven face ; blue coat, buff breeches and top-boots
with spurs ; the r. hand, gloved, pointing towards a battlefield
in the distance to 1. ; the 1. holds hilt of sword ; cocked hat
under the 1. arm ; inscribed to 1. CAROLUS xn REX SUECIAE : NATUS
D. 11 JUN. A» 1682 ; OCCUB. D. 30 NOV. A° 1718. Canvas 84 x 54 in.
[282.]
Gutch implies that the picture is signed 6G. Schroeder, pinxit\
Presented to the University by Angel Carmey, F.S.A., in 1762.
140 PORTRAITS IN
341 JOHN SHEFFIELD, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM
Jonathan Richardson the Elder.
B. 1647 ; son of Edmund, second Earl of Mulgrave ; succeeded to
the earldom, 1658; K.G. 1674; Lord Privy Seal, 1702-5;
created Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, 1703 ; d. 1721.
Whole length, seated to r. in a carved chair ; long dark -grey peri-
wig, very high on the forehead ; clean-shaven face ; large lace
cravat and lace ruffles ; black and gold robes over purplish-brown
coat and breeches braided with gold ; silk stockings of the same
colour, and high-heeled buckled shoes ; ribbon of the Order of
the Garter ; his r. hand rests on the arm of his chair ; his 1. on
a cushion that lies on a table to r. and supports the Privy Seal
purse. The table has a dull red cover ; on floor to 1. lie papers
inscribed : TO HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM AND NORMANBE —
LORD PRIVY SEALE; architectural, sky, and red curtain back-
ground. Canvas 93 x 57 in. [34.]
Given to the University in 1722 by the widow of the subject, his
third wife, Catherine, daughter of James II and Catherine
Sedley.
The portrait must have been painted between 1703 and 1705.
342 WILLIAM BROMLEY
Michael DahL
B. 1664 ; educated at Christ Church ; D.C.L. 1702 ; Burgess for the
University, 1702-32, Speaker of the House of Commons, 1710 ;
Secretary of State, 1713-14; d. 1732.
Three-quarters length, standing to r. ; long fair wig ; clean-shaven
face; white lace cravat and ruffles; black and gold robe as
Speaker of the House of Commons ; his r. hand holds a scroll,
the 1. rests on arm of green and gold Speaker's chair, which
occupies the greater part of the background. Canvas 50 x 40 in.
[72.]
Tablet on frame is inscribed : GLTLIELMUS BROMLEY ARM. DE BAGINTON
IN COM: WAR: DECTES AB HAC ACADEMIA DELEGATUS AD PARLIA-
MENTUM, IN QUO REGNANTE ANNA, PER TRIENN1UM ORATOR : POSTEA
USQUE AD EXCESSUM OPTIMAE REGINAE PRINCIPALS SECRETARIUS. OB.
13 FEBR. 1731.
According to Gutch, the portrait once bore a date, 1712.
Bequeathed to the University by the subject.
343 FREDERICK WILLIAM I OF PRUSSIA
B. 1688; son of Frederick III of Brandenburg, first king of
THE EXAMINATION SCHOOLS 141
Prussia ; m. Sophia Dorothea of Hanover ; succeeded to the throne,
1718 ; d. 1740.
Whole length, standing slightly to 1. ; powdered wig ; clean-shaven
face ; blue coat lined with red ; red collar, and cuffs with ruffles ;
cuirass over buff tunic and breeches ; high boots ; star of the
Order of the Black Eagle on 1. breast ; black and white tasselled
sash ; the 1. hand rests on sword, the r., extended, holds a baton ;
helmet lined with red on ground to 1., landscape background
with trees in distance. Canvas 86 x 54 in. [288.]
Given to the University by Angel Carmey, F.S.A., in 1762.
344 JAMES BUTLER, DUKE OF ORMONDE
Sir Godrey Kneller.
B. 1665 ; succeeded his grandfather as second Duke, 1688 ; Chan-
cellor of the University and K.G., 1688 ; Lord-Lieutenant of
Ireland, 1703 and 1710 ; impeached as a Jacobite, 1715 ; d. 1745.
Whole length, standing slightly to 1. ; the head turned slightly to
r. ; flowing grey wig ; clean-shaven face ; lace cravat ; full
Garter robes : crimson and white surcoat, white silk stockings,
buff shoes and buckles, blue velvet mantle lined with white silk ;
with badge, collar, George and Garter ; his r. hand rests on his
hip, his 1. on his mantle ; white plumed hat on table to 1. ; breast-
plate at his feet ; red curtain background. Canvas 91 X 57 in.
[17.]
Two items in the Bodleian accounts for 1701-2 refer to this
picture : ' Paid for carriage of the Duke of Ormonde's and Hudi-
bras pictures ,£1.12.8'; and 'Paid to Sr Godfrey Kneller's
man for varnishing two pictures of the Duke of Ormonde £% . 3.1
It is mentioned in a letter to Pepys, Oct. 6, 1700, by Dr. Charlett,
who adds that Kneller is 'desirous to have some of his Art visible
in the Gallery \ But it is not clear whether Kneller or the Duke
himself presented this portrait, probably the former.
345 CHARLES BUTLER, EARL OF ARRAN
Sir James Thornhill.
B. 1671 ; second son of Thomas, Earl of Ossory, and brother of
the preceding ; created Baron Butler in the English, and Earl of
Arran in the Irish peerage, 1693 ; Chancellor of the University,
1715 ; d. 1758.
Whole length, standing facing the spectator, the head turned
three-quarters to r. ; white periwig falling to shoulders ; clean-
shaven face ; lace cravat and ruffles ; scarlet and ermine peer's
142 PORTRAITS IN
robes over cloth-of-gold coat ; red velvet breeches ; white silk
stockings and buckle shoes ; his 1. hand on his hip, his r. points
to his patent of election as Chancellor of the University, which
lies upon a pedestal to 1., on the face of which is a shield of arms.
The scroll is inscribed: INSTRUMENTUM ELECTIONIS ILLUS. DOM: CAB:
BUTLER COM: ARRAN IN , C ANCELLARIUM UNIVERSITATIS OXON: X°
DIE SEPT. A.D. MDCCXV. BERNARD. GARDINER LL.D ALMAE UNIVERSITA-
TIS VICE CANCELLARItTS &C CJSTERIQ. DOCTORES MAGISTRI REGENTES.
ILLO DOMINO CAROLO R. ARRAN &c. Beside the patent lie two
volumes inscribed: STAT: UNIVERSIT: OXON: and HISTOR. ANTIQ.
UNIV. OXON. Architectural background, view of the Sheldonian
Theatre through opening to 1. ; signed and dated i THORNHILL
EQS FT. 1727. Canvas 91 x 56 in. [18.]
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1906, No. 92*.
346 PEREGRINE PALMER
Richard Phelps.
B. 170S (?); Fellow of All Souls College; M.A. 1727; created
D.C.L. 1749 ; then of Fairfield, Somerset ; Burgess for the Uni-
versity, 1745 ; d. 1762.
Three-quarters length, seated, three-quarters to r., in a blue velvet
arm-chair ; bushy grey wig ; clean-shaven face ; square bands,
white lace ruffles ; scarlet and rose D.C.L. gown over dark red coat
and breeches ; his r. hand on elbow of chair ; his 1. arm rests on
edge of table on which lies an open volume ; behind are book-
shelves to r., to 1. green curtain. Canvas 50 x 40 in. [233.]
Inscribed on the tablet at the top of the frame : p. PALMER LL.D.,
COLL. OMN. ANIM. SOCIUS ET ACADEMIAE IN PARLIAMENTO BURGENSIS
DDD CUST. ET COLL. OMN. ANIM.
Signed at the back in large bold letters R. PHELPS PINXIT 1764.
Given to the University by the Warden and Fellows of All Souls
College in 1769.
347 GEORGE HENRY LEE, EARL OF LICHFIELD
George Huddesford.
B. 1718 ; M.A., St. John's College, 1737 ; M.P. for Oxfordshire,
1740 and 1741 ; succeeded as third Earl, 1743 ; D.C.L., 1743 ;
Chancellor of the University, 1762 ; d. 1772.
Whole length, standing slightly to r. ; dark brown hair in queue ;
clean-shaven face ; lace cravat and ruffles ; black and gold Chan-
cellor's robes over rust-red dress ; white stockings and buckle
shoes, his 1. hand rests upon his peer's robes, which lie with his
THE EXAMINATION SCHOOLS 143
coronet on a pedestal to r., his r. on his hip ; architectural and
green curtain background ; signed and dated G. HUDDESFORD
PINXIT 1777. Canvas 93 x 57 in. [10.]
The Vice-Chancellor's accounts for 1777 show a payment: 'To
Mr. Huddesford for Ld Lichfield's Picture and Frame £56 . 4.
carriage of do. from London ^1.5. 6.'
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1906, No. 135*.
348 WILLIAM HENRY CAVENDISH BENTINCK,
DUKE OF PORTLAND
Benjamin West.
B. 1738 ; educated at Christ Church ; succeeded as third Duke,
1762 ; First Lord of the Treasury, 1783 and 1807 ; D.C.L. and
Chancellor of the University, 1792 ; K.G. 1801 ; d. 1809.
Whole length, seated facing the spectator, the head turned almost
in profile to r. ; white full-bottomed wig ; clean-shaven face ;
lace cravat and ruffles ; black and gold Chancellor's robes over
black clothes ; his r. hand holds a roll of papers, his 1. rests on
the arm of his chair ; peer's robes and coronet on a table to 1. ;
architectural and curtain background, distant view of the Rad-
cliffe Camera through opening to 1. ; signed and dated B. WEST
18H. Canvas 96 x 72 in. [27.]
Given to the University by the son of the subject, the fourth Duke,
in 1816.
Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1814.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1906, No. 161.
349 SIR WILLIAM DOLBEN
Copy from John Opie.
B. 1726 ; son of Sir John Dolben ; educated at Christ Church ;
Burgess for the University, 1780 ; d. 1814.
Bust, facing the spectator, the head turned very slightly to r.
grey hair ; clean-shaven face ; white neck-cloth and frilled shirt ;
dark brown coat, yellow waistcoat, partly open. Canvas 29 X 24 in.
[16.]
Given to the University, as ' a copy of a Portrait of his Father, the
late Sir William Dolben ', by Sir John English Dolben in 1818.1
The original portrait mentioned in Opie and his Works, by J. J.
Rogers, was painted about 1800.
1 Minutes of the Hebdomadal Board, 1818.
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350 KING GEORGE III
Allan Ramsay.
B. 1738 ; son of Frederick, Prince of Wales, and Augusta of Saxe-
Gotha ; succeeded his grandfather in 1760 ; m. Charlotte Sophia
of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, 1761 ; d. 1820.
Whole length, standing facing the spectator on a dais covered with
a red and blue turkey carpet, the head turned to 1. ; powdered
hair ; clean-shaven face ; lace cravat ; in robes ; cloth of gold
waistcoat and breeches ; white silk stockings and shoes with gold
buckles ; blue velvet mantle lined with ermine and edged with
gold, over surcoat lined and edged with ermine, and belted with
silver belt which holds sword ; collar, George and Garter of the
Order of the Garter; the r. hand on hip, the 1. on fold of
ermine cloak which lies on table to r., on which also is the crown,
with a blue velvet lining; red curtain background with pillar
encircled with gold rope to 1. ; Canvas 97 x 62 in. [4.]
Given to the University by George Henry Lee, third Earl of Lich-
field, the Chancellor, in 1765.
The Vice-Chancellor's accounts for 1765 show an item 'Paid for
carriage of King's Picture £2 . 2. ; Porter, 4/- =£2 . 6.1
351 ALEXANDER I, TSAR OF RUSSIA
Francois Gerard (?).
B. 1777 ; son of the Emperor Paul and Maria of Wiirtemberg ; m.
Louisa Maria of Baden, 1793 ; succeeded to the throne, 1801 ;
d. 1825.
Whole length, standing in a landscape facing the spectator, the
head turned three-quarters to 1. ; short reddish-brown hair ;
slight whiskers ; in uniform, green coat with gold epaulettes and
collar ; blue ribbon over 1. shoulder and under r. arm ; silver
sword-belt ; white breeches ; high boots with silver spurs ; on
breast the Silver Cross of St. George of Russia, the Russian
Medal of 1814, the badge of the Order of Maria Theresa, and the
Iron Cross of Prussia ; the 1. hand gloved holds glove and hilt
of sword, the r. hangs down, holding plumed hat ; landscape
background with lake and mountain scenery. Canvas 92 x 64 in.
Given to the University by the subject, in response to a request
made after the visit of the Allied Sovereigns in 1814 : received
Dec. 2, 1816.
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352 KING GEORGE IV
Sir Thomas Lawrence.
B. 1762 ; son of King George III and Charlotte Sophia of Meck-
lenburg-Strelitz ; Regent from 1811 ; succeeded to the throne,
1820 ; visited Oxford with the Emperor of Russia and the King
of Prussia in June, 1814; d. 1830.
Whole length, standing slightly to r., the head turned three-quarters
to 1.; hair tinged with grey; clean-shaven face; high stock and
collar; in full Garter robes; white embroidered silk and crimson
velvet tunic; blue velvet mantle lined with white silk; white
breeches and stockings, and shoes with rosettes; collar of the Order
of the Garter with the Grand Cross of the Bath and the Guelphic
Order; the r. hand rests on papers which lie on a gilt table to 1.,
the 1. on the hip ; red curtain background with pillar and trees
to r. Canvas 114 x 80 in. [273.]
A tablet on the frame is inscribed : GEORGII mi BRITANNIARUM REGIS
HANC EFFIGIEM ACADEMIAE OXON. D.D. REX IPSE 1814 (sic).
A request was made by the Hebdomadal Board through the Vice-
Chancellor for this portrait ' in perpetual remembrance ' of the
visit of the Prince of Wales with the Allied Sovereigns in 1814.
But not until June 19, 1820, do we find that the portrait of the
King was received 'for which his Majesty in condescension to the
humble desire of this Board . . was graciously pleased to sit.1 1
Similar portraits are at Windsor Castle, the Vatican and elsewhere.
353 WILLIAM WYNDHAM GRENVILLE, LORD
GRENVILLE
Thomas Phillips.
B. 1759 ; B. A. of Christ Church, 1780 ; Speaker of the House of
Commons, 1789; created a peer, 1790; Chancellor of the
University, 1809 ; d. 1834.
Three-quarters length, standing, three-quarters to 1. ; grey hair,
clean-shaven face; long lace cravat and ruffles; Chancellor's
black and gold robe over black velvet clothes ; the 1. hand hangs
by side holding college cap, the r. clasps an upright volume
standing on a red-covered table to 1., on which are also a bundle
of papers tied up with red tape and inscribed RESPONSE OF CHAN-
CELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD ; red curtain behind to r.,
to 1., a view of Christ Church seen through window. Canvas
50x40 in. [79.]
Painted in response to a request * to provide a portrait of the late
1 Minutes of the Hebdomadal Board.
890 M
146 PORTRAITS IN
Lord Grenville', and given to the University by 'four individuals1,
Dr. Macbride, Dr. Bull, Dr. Cramer, and Dr. Cardwell, in 1840.1
An entry in Phillips' diary preserved at the National Portrait
Gallery, under date 1840 runs : ' Copy, head and figure from pic-
ture Coll. of Surgeons for the University of Oxford, 1. h. V The
original portrait, painted for the Royal College of Surgeons
with academic accessories, was exhibited in the Royal Academy in
1810, and engraved by J. Fittler, A.R.A., in 1812. It measures
55 x 43£ in. and is No. 29 in the collection of the College.
Similar portraits are at Oriel College, and (a whole length) at
Christ Church.
354 WILLIAM IV
Sir David Wilkw.
B. 1765 ; third son of King George III and Sophia Charlotte of
Mecklenburg-Strelitz ; K.G. 1782 ; created Duke of Clarence,
1789 ; m. Adelaide, daughter of George, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-
Meiningen, 1818 ; succeeded to the throne, 1830 ; d. 1837.
Whole length, standing on a carpet-covered dais, facing the spec-
tator ; grey hair ; clean-shaven face ; high white stock ; in full
Garter robes, blue velvet mantle lined with white over crimson
and white tunic ; white silk breeches and stockings, and shoes
with rosettes ; collar, George and Garter of the Order, and collar
and badge of the Order of the Bath ; his r. hand rests on upright
sword, the 1. at his side ; crown on gold-covered table to 1. ;
pillar to 1., red curtain to r. Canvas 104 x 68 in. [3.]
Painted in response to a request made through the Duke of Wel-
lington in 1835, and given to the University by Queen Adelaide
in 1838.2
A portrait of the King by Wilkie was exhibited at the Royal
Academy in 1837.
355 FREDERICK WILLIAM III OF PRUSSIA
B. 1770; son of Frederick William II and Frederika of Hesse
Darmstadt ; m. Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, 1793 ; succeeded
to the throne 1797 ; d. 1840.
Whole length, standing to 1., the head turned facing the spectator ;
fair hair, whiskers and slight moustache ; in uniform, green coat
with red collar and cuffs, and sash with tassel, embroidered in
silver, silver epaulettes ; green breeches, top-boots with spurs ;
blue ribbon and Star of the Order of the Garter, the Silver
1 Minutes of the Hebdomadal Board. 2 Ibid.
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Cross of St. George of Russia, the Iron Cross of Prussia, the Order
of Maria Theresa ; 1. hand, gloved, rests on upright sword, the
r. holds plumed hat ; to r. a charger held by soldier ; three other
figures and a horse behind ; landscape, Potsdam with the palace
of Sans Souci in background, windmill to r. Canvas 92 x 63 in.
[100.]
Head engraved by E. Rauch.
Given to the University by the subject, in response to a request
made after the visit of the Allied Sovereigns in 1814 : received
April 4, 1816.1
356 QUEEN ADELAIDE
Sir W. Wilkie.
B. 1792; daughter of George, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Meiningen; m.
William, Duke of Clarence, 1818 ; Queen Consort, 1830-37 ;
visited Oxford, 1835 ; d. 1849,
Whole length, standing in front of a state chair, facing the
spectator, the head turned slightly to 1., dark hair dressed in
close curls, with jewelled band ; pearl necklace ; high lace collar ;
blue velvet, gold, and ermine robe over white satin dress with
full short sleeves embroidered with gold; rings on each hand,
and bracelets on each arm ; r. hand holds long white gloves ; the
the 1. rests on stone carved pedestal on which is the crown ; red
curtain and architectural background, landscape through opening
to 1. Canvas 104£ x 61 in. [1.]
Painted in response to a request made through the Duke of Wel-
lington in 1835, and given to the University by Queen Adelaide
in 1838.2
357 ARTHUR WELLESLEY, DUKE OF
WELLINGTON
John Lucas.
B. 1769; created Viscount Wellington, 1809, Duke, in 1814;
Prime Minister, 1828 and 1834; in Oxford with the Allies,
1814 ; Chancellor, 1834 ; visited the University, 1835, 1839,
1841, 1844 ; d. 1852.
Whole length, standing slightly to r. in front of carved arm-chair,
the head turned slightly to 1.; grey hair and whiskers; high
white stock and lace bands ; Chancellor's black and gold robe
over black coat and breeches ; black silk stockings, and shoes
with gold buckles ; blue ribbon and Star of the Order of the
Garter across breast, and three medals ; Garter on knee ; folds of
1 Minutes of the Hebdomadal Board. 2 Ibid.
M 2
148 PORTRAITS IN
robe on r. arm ; cap with gold tassel in 1. hand ; to r., architec-
tural background with stained-glass window, a red-covered table
with blue bound folio volume and papers to 1. Canvas 106 x 70 in.
[101.]
Painted at the charge of the Duke, in response to a request from the
University dated Oct. 26, 1835, and sent to Oxford, Dec. 1839. x
Engraved by S. Cousins, A.R.A., in 1841.2
358 SIR ROBERT HARRY INGLIS
George Richmond.
B. 1786 ; educated at Christ Church ; D.C.L. 1826 ; Burgess for
the University, 1829-54 ; d. 1855.
Whole length, standing three-quarters to 1.; head bald, scanty
grey hair, and whiskers ; collar and bands ; crimson D.C.L. gown
over black coat and trousers; fob chain; the 1. hand holds
black velvet cap, the r. raised as in speaking ; to 1. chair and
green-covered table with a candle, papers, and books ; folding
seat with cushion to r. ; dull greenish background. Canvas
94 x 57 in. [110.]
Painted — according to an entry in Richmond's Diary preserved in
the National Portrait Gallery— in 1854. Exhibited at the Royal
Academy in 1855, with the inscription : THE RT HON. SIR ROBERT
HARRY INGLIS, BART., D.C.L., LATE & FOR NINE PARLIAMENTS ONE OF
THE BURGESSES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. PAINTED FOR THE
PICTURE GALLERY OF THE UNIVERSITY.
On the back is the same inscription in the painter's handwriting,
with the slight addition, ' painted by Subscription of friends and
former constituents for the Picture Gallery of the University by
George Richmond, 10 York St., Portman Square.'
359 EDWARD GEOFFREY SMITH STANLEY,
EARL OF DERBY
Sir F. Grant.
B. 1799 ; educated at Christ Church ; succeeded as fourteenth Earl
1851 ; Prime Minister, 1852, 1858, 1866; D.C.L. and Chan-
cellor of the University, 1852; E.G. 1859; d. 1869.
Whole length, standing close to a pillar, slightly to r., the head
three-quarters to 1. ; dark hair, grey whiskers ; lace bands and
ruffles ; black and gold Chancellor's robes over black coat and
knee-breeches, silk stockings and buckle shoes; 1. hand holds
1 Minutes of the Hebdomadal Board.
2 For history of the engraving, which is reproduced, see John Lucas, by Arthur
Lucas, pp. 37-40.
THE EXAMINATION SCHOOLS 149
eyeglass, the r. square cap with gold tassel ; view of All Souls
and the Radcliffe dome to r., red curtain to 1. Canvas 92 X 56 in.
[113.]
Given to the University by the subject in 1859. The price paid by
Lord Derby was ^£200.
Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1859.
The Minutes of the Hebdomadal Council show that the request was
made to Lord Derby in Nov. 1857 ; the Chancellor immediately
agreed to present his portrait and asked the University to select
the painter. The names of Grant and Richmond were accord-
ingly submitted by the Vice-Chancellor. The Portrait was
reported ready May 23, 1859, and it was ordered that it should
be hung in the Picture Gallery in the series of Chancellors.
360 CHICHESTER SAMUEL PARKINSON
FORTESCUE, LORD CARLINGFORD
James Tissot.
B. 1823 ; Student of Christ Church, 1843 ; entered Parliament
1847 ; held various posts in successive Governments ; Chief
Secretary for Ireland, 1865-6 and 1868-70; created Baron
Carlingford, 1874 ; President of the Council, 1883 ; a Liberal
Unionist, 1886 ; d. 1898.
Whole length, standing on an eastern rug in front of a fire-place,
facing the spectator, the head turned three-quarters to r. ; dark
hair and whiskers ; white collar and waistcoat ; black tie ; black
coat, grey trousers ; the back of the head and shoulders is re-
flected in a large mirror over the chimney-piece, in which is also
seen the opposite side of the room, with a book-case, shelves full
of books and packets of letters, a landscape over it, and a door
open onto a landing beyond, with pictures hanging on a green wall.
The mantle-shelf of dark grey marble has on it Japanese fans,
bundles of letters, a bronze clock, and other objects. In front
to r. is a small what-not table laden with books, papers, and a
dispatch box ; on the rug at his master's feet is a white bull-
terrier with pricked ears ; signed below to 1. TISSOT 71. Canvas
74 x 47 in.
Given to the University by his nephew, Francis Fortescue Urquhart,
Fellow of Balliol College, about 1904. The Portrait was
originally subscribed for and presented to the wife of the subject,
Lady Waldegrave, by a large body of Irishmen — including 27
peers, 5 Roman Catholic bishops, and 49 members of Parlia-
ment— to commemorate Lord Carlingford's tenure of the Chief
Secretaryship.
150 THE EXAMINATION SCHOOLS
361 ALBERT EDWARD PRINCE OF WALES
Sir J. Watson Gordon.
B. 1841 ; eldest son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-
Coburg; member of Christ Church; D.C.L. 1863; visited
Oxford, 1897 ; succeeded to the throne, as King Edward VII,
1901 ; d. 1910.
Whole length, standing slightly to r. on the tiled floor of a landing
supposed to represent the head of the Hall Staircase at Christ
Church ; youthful face ; brown hair ; white shirt and tie ; black
silk nobleman's undress gown over dress clothes ; ribbon and Star
of the Order of the Garter; his hands together in front hold college
cap with gold tassel ; behind, stone balustrade with carved lion-
head; above to 1. gothic pier supporting roof; signed below to r.
SIR JOHN WATSON GORDON R.A. & P.R.S.A. PINXIT 1861. Canvas
96 x 57 in. [«.]
Given to the University by King Edward, ' in memory of his under-
graduate days,1 in 1867.
Inscribed on the back, ' No. 1. His Royal Highness the Prince of
Wales. Painted by command of His Royal Highness for the
University of Oxford by Sir John Watson Gordon, R.A. and
P.R.S.A:
Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1862 as painted for the Uni-
versity, and at the Paris Exhibition, 1867.
362 THE EMPEROR WILLIAM II
Alfred Schwarz.
B. 1859 ; at Berlin, the son of Frederick III and Victoria Princess
Royal of England ; succeeded to the throne,' 1888 ; D.C.L. 1907.
Whole length, standing facing the spectator ; short dark hair ;
moustache ; white collar ; scarlet D.C.L. gown over black dress
clothes with red collar ; black silk stockings and buckle shoes ;
Garter ribbon, badge, George and Garter ; his r. hand on his
hip, his 1., holding academic cap, rests on the projecting corner
of stone to r. ; architectural background, a loggia opening to 1. ;
signed ALFRED SCHWARZ BERLIN, 1908. Canvas 93| x 58 \ in.
Presented to the University by the Emperor, 1908.
XXII
No. 301. EDWAHD VII AVHKN PRINCK OF WALKS
150
151
PORTRAITS FORMERLY IN THE
OLD MUSIC SCHOOL1
363 ORLANDO LASSUS
B. c. 1520, at Mons, in Belgium ; published madrigals in Venice,
1545 ; visited England, 1554 ; Chapel Master at Munich, 1562 ;
a great composer both of sacred and secular music ; d. 1594.
Bust, slightly to 1. ; short dark hair, moustache and beard ; small
close ruff open in front with two small tassels hanging on strings
untied ; dark doublet ; in front, a ledge inscribed ORLADUS
LASSUS . BELGA. ; dark background. Canvas 21 x 17 in.
Given to the Music School by Dr. Philip Hayes, before 1795.
Apparently an old copy of a lost portrait.
364 ORLANDO GIBBONS
B. 1583; Chorister of King's College, Cambridge, 1596; Organist
of the Chapel Royal, 1604; Mus. Bac. Cambridge, 1606; D.Mus.
Oxford, 1622 ; composed madrigals and anthems ; d. 1625.
Bust, three-quarters to 1. ; black cap ; fair hair, short beard and
moustache ; white pleated ruff ; white Doctor of Music's habit
with red hood ; light-brown background ; painted in an oval
spandrel. Canvas 13 J x 10 in.
Given to the Music School by Dr. Philip Hayes before 1795 ;
apparently a copy made for the purpose.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1904, No. 131.
365 WILLIAM HEATHER
B. 1563 (?) ; Chorister of Westminster Abbey ; Gentleman of the
Chapel Royal, 1615 ; friend and executor of Camden and the
channel of his benefaction to the University ; D.Mus. 1622 ;
founded the Professorship of Music, 1626 ; presented the Uni-
versity with instruments and the nucleus of a musical library ;
d. 1627.
Three-quarters length, standing slightly to r. ; grey hair, moustache
and peaked beard ; black Doctor's cap ; pleated lace-edged ruff
and turned-back cuffs ; scarlet and white D.Mus. robes and hood
1 See also Introduction, p. xii.
152 PORTRAITS IN
over black dress ; his r. hand holds a roll of music, his 1. rests upon
a volume from which hangs a paper inscribed MUSICA TRANSALPiNA,1
which lies on a table to r. ; dark background, curtains at either
side. Canvas 50J x 36 in.
In the Music Schools before 1776,2 probably given by the subject.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 6.
366 JOHN BULL
B. 1563 (?) ; Chorister of the Chapel Royal, c. 1572 ; Gentleman of
the Chapel Royal, 1585, and Organist 1591-1613 ; D.Mus. 1592 ;
Professor of Music at Gresham College, 1597-1607; left England,
1613 ; became Organist of the Cathedral at Antwerp, where he
died, 1628.
Bust, slightly to 1. ; short dark hair, moustache and beard ; white
falling collar embroidered with black ; black dress ; white fringed
hood over shoulders ; brown background ; skull and sand-glass
above to 1. ; inscribed ANO. AETATIS SUAE 27, 1589. Panel
21£ x 17| in.
The frame is inscribed with a quatrain : —
The Bull by force
In field doth Raigne.
But Bull by skill
Good will aoth Gayne.
A print of this portrait by J. W. Childe has a note describing the
fringed cape as the Livery hood of the Merchant Taylors' Com-
ry, granted to Bull on a special occasion in 1607. Mentioned
Wood as in the Music School before 1690.3
Exhibition of National Portraits, 1866, No. 228 ; Oxford Exhibi-
tion of Historical Portraits, 1904, No. 135*.
367 WILLIAM LAWES
B. 1580 (?); Elder brother of Henry Lawes; Chorister of
Chichester Cathedral ; Gentleman of the Chapel Royal, 1603 ;
benefactor to the Music School ; shot at the siege of Chester, 1645.
Bust, slightly to r. ; fair hair falling to shoulders ; youthful, clean-
shaven face ; black broad-brimmed hat ; deep lace-edged collar ;
1 A collection of madrigals by William Byrd and others published in London
by N. Yonge in 1588.
3 Hawkins sent a draughtsman to Oxford to copy the portraits in the Music
School for his History of Music, 1776, in which many are roughly engraved.
3 Fasti to the Athen. Oxon., 1690.
THE EXAMINATION SCHOOLS 153
black dress; sleeves slashed, showing white shirt; warm grey
background ; painted in an oval spandrel. Canvas 29 J X 24J in.
Given to the Music School by Philip Hayes, c. 1780.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. S3.
368 JOHN HILTON
B. 1599 (?); B.Mus., Trinity College, Cambridge, 1626; Organist
and parish clerk at St. Margaret's, Westminster, 1628 ; contri-
buted to collections of catches and other music published 1627
and 1652 ; d. 1657.
Half length, three-quarters to r. ; brown hair falling to neck ; fair
moustache and tuft on chin ; small falling collar and cuffs ; black
dress ; his r. hand points to a book inscribed with the words and
music of a miserere, signed J. H., lying with other books on a table
to r.; warm grey background ; shield of arms above to r.; inscribed
AETATIS 50. SEPT. 30th 1649. Canvas 29£ x 25£ in.
In the Music School before 1776.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 60.
369 GEORGE HUDSON
Violinist and Composer ; appointed Musician in Ordinary for
Composition to Charles II at a salary of £200 a year, 1660;
one of the violinists in the King's band, charged with the duty
of giving instruction, 1661 ; d. 1661 (?).
Bust, slightly to r. ; flaxen wig falling over shoulders ; clean-shaven
face ; black skull-cap ; wide falling collar ; black dress ; brown
background ; painted in an ornamental oval spandrel. Canvas
29 x 23J in.
Inscribed ROBERT HUDSON on tablet.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 86.
370 HENRY LA WES
B. 1596 ; Gentleman of the Chapel Royal, 1626 ; Clerk of the
Cheque ; member of the King's band ; wrote the music to
Comics, 1634, and published, besides other works, Ay res and
Dialogues, 1652 ; a famous lutenist ; benefactor to the Music
School ; d. 1662.
Bust, slightly to r. ; brown hair falling to shoulders, slight mous-
tache ; falling collar ; black satin drapery round shoulders ;
dark background ; above to r. a paper inscribed with the words
and music of a canon beginning with the words REGI REGTS, REGI
154 PORTRAITS IN
REGIS REGUM ARCANA CANO, and signed HKNRICUS LA WES REGIAE
MAJESTATI AB UTRAQ. MUSIC!. Canvas 29^ x 24^ in.
The words of the canon are printed as a motto beneath a portrait
of Charles I on the fly-leaf of Lawes' Choice Psalms, dedicated
to the King and published in 1648, about which time the
portrait was probably given.
Given to the Music School by the subject.
Exhibition of National Portraits, 1866, No. 549; Oxford Ex-
hibition of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 87*.
371 WILLIAM GREGORY
Performer on the violin and on wind instruments; Musician to
Charles I, 1626, and Charles II, 1661 ; composer of sacred and
secular music published 1665, and in collections after his death ;
d. 1663.
Half length, to r. ; grey hair falling to shoulders, slight moustache ;
lace cravat ; black dress ; full white shirt sleeve ; his r. hand
spread open on his breast ; dark background. Canvas 22 x 24£ in.
In the Music School before 1776.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 88.
372 NICHOLAS LANIER
Nicholas Lanier.
B. 1588, in London ; son of John Lanier, Musician to Queen
Elizabeth ; employed as musician by Henry Prince of Wales,
1604-12 ; Master of the King's Music, 1625 and 1660 ; contributed
to Select Musical Ayres, 1653, and other works; travelled to
collect pictures, 1625-8 ; keeper of the King's miniatures ; himself
a painter; d. 1666.
Half length, three-quarters to r. ; reddish-brown hair falling to
neck, moustache and tuft on chin ; grey hat with blue ribbon ;
falling collar ; grey coat ; his 1. hand holds a palette upon
which he is mixing colour with a brush held in his r. hand ; to 1.
is a table, upon which lies a skull, and a paper, inscribed with
the words and music of a canon : THUS THUS AT LAST WEE MUST
REDUCED BE TO NAKED BOANES AND DUST and MADE AND PAYNTED BY
NICH. LANIER; landscape background with overhanging rock to 1.
Canvas 26 x 23 in.
Given to the Music School by the subject.
Exhibition of National Portraits, 1866, No. 713 ; Oxford Exhibi-
tion of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 91*.
THE EXAMINATION SCHOOLS 155
373 CHRISTOPHER SIMPSON ^ ^^ t
B. 1605 (?) ; a viol da gamba player, composer of instrumental
music and writer on musical theory ; took up arms in the royal
cause ; travelled with the son of a patron to Rome, 1661 ; pub-
lished the Division Viol, 1659, and other works ; d. 1669.
Bust, three-quarters to r. ; dark hair falling to neck, moustache
and tuft on chin ; square collar with two tassels ; black dress ;
dark grey background ; painted in an oval spandrel. Canvas
29 X 24f in.
In the Music School before 1776.
Engraved with slight variations by W. Faithorne.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 99*.
374 JOHN WILSON
Robert Fisher.
B. 1595 ; a lutenist, servant in ordinary to Charles I in the
faculty of music ; D.Mus. Oxford, 1645 ; Professor of Music,
1656-61 ; lived in Balliol College and promoted the pursuit of
music in the University ; d. 1674.
Bust, slightly to r., looking at the spectator ; brown hair falling
to neck, moustache and slight tuft on chin ; black skull-cap ;
falling collar ; scarlet and white D.Mus. gown and hood ; dark
background ; inscribed jo. WILSON D. MUSICAE AETAT. SUAE 59. 1655.
no. FISHER PINXIT. Canvas 25 x 20^ in.
Given to the Music School by the subject.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 108*.
375 CHRISTOPHER GIBBONS A v D ck
B. 1615; Organist of Winchester Cathedral, 1638-61 ; joined the
royalist troops in the Civil War; Gentleman of the Chapel
Royal, 1660; Organist to Charles II and of Westminster
Abbey ; D.Mus. at Oxford, 1663 : d. 1676.
Half length, three-quarters to 1. ; dark hair falling to neck ; clean-
shaven face ; black Doctor's cap ; scarlet and white D.Mus.
gown and hood ; his r. hand holds a roll of music before him ;
dark background ; painted in an oval spandrel ; inscribed
A. v. DYCK FECIT. Canvas 29£ X 25 in.
Given to the Music School by the subject.
Exhibition of National Portraits, 1866, No. 544 ; Oxford Exhibi-
tion of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 116.
1 Carwarden seems to have also been a composer. Music apparently by him
is included with airs by Lawes and Simpson in Bodl. MS. Mus. Sch. e. 431-6.
See concerning Carwarden Fine Arts Quarterly Review, June, 1867.
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376 MATTHEW LOCK
B. 1630 (?); Chorister of Exeter Cathedral, 1638; began to compose,
1651; wrote music for masques, 1653 and 1656, and for the
procession of Charles II on the eve of his Coronation ; ' Com-
poser in Ordinary ' and one of the King's private band; composed
anthems and services ; d. 1677.
Bust, facing the spectator, the head turned slightly to r. ; dark
hair falling over shoulders, slight moustache and tuft on chin ;
long bands ; black dress ; warm grey background. Canvas
29J X 24 in.
Given to the Music School by the subject.
Exhibition of National Portraits, 1866, No. 942 ; Oxford Exhibi-
tion of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 136.
377 JOHN KINGSTON
A musician in the service, successively, of Charles I, Cromwell, and
Charles II ; said to have taught Cromwell's daughters, and to
have been organist at Hampton Court during the Common-
wealth ; Gentleman of the Chapel Royal, 1661-6 ; « Keeper of
the organs,' 1663; a composer chiefly of chamber music; bene-
factor to the Music School ; d. 1683.
Bust, three-quarters to r. ; brown hair falling to shoulders, slight
moustache and tuft on chin ; black skull-cap ; deep square
collar ; black dress ; dark background ; painted in an oval
spandrel. Canvas 29^ X 24J in.
Given to the Music School by the subject.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 146.
378 THOMAS BLAGRAVE
Gentleman of the Chapel Royal, 1661 ; Clerk of the Cheque, 1662 ;
Flute-player in Charles IPs private band ; at the Coronation of
James II, 1685 ; composer of a few songs ; d. 1688.
Bust, to 1. ; dark hair falling over shoulders, slight moustache and
tuft on chin ; black skull-cap ; deep square collar ; black dress ;
dark background ; painted in an oval spandrel. Canvas
29J x 24£ in.
Given to the Music School by the subject.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 157.
THE EXAMINATION SCHOOLS 157
379 WILLIAM CHILD
B. 1606 ; B.Mus. 1631 ; one of the organists of St. George's
Chapel, Windsor, 1632-43 ; appointed Chanter of the Chapel
Royal, 1660, and composer to the King; D.Mus. at Oxford,
1663 ; composed chiefly sacred music ; d. 1697.
Whole length, standing slightly to 1., the head turned slightly
to r. ; grey hair falling over shoulders ; clean-shaven face ; black
Doctor's cap; square bands; scarlet and white D.Mus. robes;
his r. hand grasps a roll of music, his 1. held before him ; to 1.
is a table upon which lies a sheet of music, and inkstand and
pen ; dark background. Canvas 84 x 50 in.
Given to the Music School by the subject.1
Head only engraved by J. Caldwell.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 162.
380 BERNHARD SCHMIDT
B. c. 1630, in Germany ; known as Father Smith ; came to England
1660 ; builder of the organs in the Chapel at Whitehall, West-
minster Abbey, St. Paul's, and elsewhere; organ builder to
Charles II and Queen Anne ; d. 1708.
Bust, to 1. ; long curly dark wig over shoulders ; clean-shaven face ;
lace cravat ; red drapery round shoulders over dark clothes ; dark
background ; painted in an oval spandrel. Canvas 29 x 24 J in.
In the Music School before 1776.
Exhibition of National Portraits, 1867, No. 144.
381 ARCANGELO CORELLI
Hugh Howard.
B. 1653 at Fusignano, Imola ; travelled and settled at Rome, 1685,
under patronage of Cardinal Ottoboni, to whom he bequeathed
a collection of pictures ; gave weekly concerts, a friend of all
musicians, a violinist and composer ; d. 1713.
Bust, facing the spectator, the head slightly to r. ; thick curly dark
hair ; clean-shaven face ; dark coat slightly open, over the collar
of which large white bands hang crooked ; within, white shirt
with three buttons showing upon the neck-band. Panel
13J x 10J in.
On the back is the following inscription : ' AMICISSIMO suo J. AUBREY
1 In Grove's Ttictionai-y of Music this portrait is said to have been painted in
1663.
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dUI CORELLIANAM HARMONIAM IMPENSE DILIGIT OPTIME INTELLIGIT
HANC CORELLII EFFIGIEM D.D. JOS WARTON 1770 - '
A somewhat larger portrait, the same head and showing the hand
holding a sheet of music, was engraved by J. Smith, marked
HUGH HOWARD AD vivuM PiNxiT.1 Hugh Howard travelled in
Holland, France, and Italy between 1697 and 1700.
382 NATHANIEL LORD CREW
B. 1633 ; Fellow of Lincoln College 1656, Rector 1668 ; Bishop of
Durham 1674 ; benefactor of the University ; d. 1721.
Three-quarters length, standing three-quarters to 1., looking at
spectator ; dark hair to shoulders ; clean-shaven face ; square
bands ; scarlet and miniver peer's robes ; his r. hand holds
coronet, his 1. a fold of his robe ; Canvas 48 x 38 in.
Given to the Music School by Dr. William Hayes (d. 1777).
383 THOMAS TUDWAY
Thomas Hill
B. 1645 (?) ; Chorister in the Chapel Royal ; tenor in the Choir of
St. George's, Windsor, 1664; Organist of King's College, 1670;
D.Mus. and Professor of Music at Cambridge, 1705 ; Composer
in Ordinary to Queen Anne ; made in MS. a valuable collection
of ancient Church Music for the Harleian Library ; d. 1726.
Half length, three-quarters to r. ; clean-shaven face ; black cap
with gold tassel; white cravat; rust-red coat and waistcoat
open over white shirt at breast and wrists ; his r. hand holds a
paper inscribed with the words and music of an anthem ON THE
OCCASION OF HER MAJESTY'S PRESENCE IN KING'S COLL. CHAPPELL,
CAMBRIGE APRIL YE 16. 1705; dark background. Canvas
x 24 in.
Bought by Dr. Rawlinson with a portrait of Nathaniel Wanley for
£\. Is. at Lord Coleraine's sale in 1754. It came to the Univer-
sity with Dr. Rawlinson's collections in 1757.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits 1906, No. 29.
384 WILLIAM CROFT
Thomas Murray.
B. 1678 (?) ; Chorister of the Chapel Royal ; Organist at St. Anne's,
Soho, 1700-11, and of Westminster Abbey ; Master of the Chil-
dren and Composer to the Chapel Royal, 1708 ; D.Mus., Oxford,
1713; d. 1727.
1 Hawkins, History of Music, says that the bust on Corelli's tomb in the
Pantheon in Rome was based upon this portrait. Bloxam, Register, ii. 222,
includes No. 381 among Philip Hayes' gifts.
THE EXAMINATION SCHOOLS 159
Bust, three-quarters to 1. ; white periwig falling to shoulders ;
clean-shaven face ; lace cravat ; scarlet and white D.Mus. gown
and hood over brown dress; dark background; painted in an
oval spandrel. Canvas 29 X 23J in.
Given to the Music School by Mrs. Whyrley, before 1776.
Engraved by G. Vertue, 1724.
Exhibition of National Portraits, 1867, No. 179; Oxford Exhibi-
tion of Historical Portraits, 1906, No. 30.
385 JOHN HINE(?)
B. 1687; Chorister at Magdalen College, 1694, clerk, 1705;
Organist of Gloucester Cathedral, 1712 ; instructor of William
Hayes; d. 1730.
Bust, slightly to r., the head facing the spectator ; close grey wig
to neck ; clean-shaven fat face ; white neckcloth ; puce-coloured
coat; light waistcoat; painted in an oval spandrel. Canvas
14 x 11 in.
Given to the Music School by Dr. Philip Hayes ; it was one of two
or three unidentified portraits already in 1857.1
386 JOHN WELDON(?)
B. 1676 ; pupil of the organist of Eton ; Organist of New College ;
Gentleman of the Chapel Royal ; organist, 1708, composer, 1715 ;
wrote music to Congreve's masque The Judgement of Paris ;
d. 1736.
Bust, to 1., looking at the spectator ; flaxen wig over shoulders ;
clean-shaven face; white neckcloth; mulberry velvet coat.
Canvas 1£| x 9 in.
Given to the Music School by Dr. Philip Hayes before 1795 ; it
was unidentified in 1857.
387 COLONEL JOHN BLATHWAYT
W. Sonmans.
B. 1690 ; the son of William Blathwayt, Secretary at War in 1683 ;
of Dyrham Park, Gloucestershire; 'A prodigy on the harpsichord
at fourteen ' ; fought at Culloden ; d. 1752.
1 Bloxam, Register of Magdalen College, ii. 911. I have tried in vain to discover
another portrait of Hine or of the companion head of Weldon by which to
identify either. The present guess is based upon the perhaps rather earlier-
fashioned wig of the elder of the two, Weldon. A copy of Divine Harmony by
John Weldon preserved in Magdalen College Library has a frontispiece showing
a musical service in the Chapel Royal, when all the performers are wearing wigs
similar to that in No. 386.
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Half length, to 1., the head nearly facing the spectator ; grey wig
falling to shoulders; boyish face; blue jacket laced with gold,
open over white shirt and cravat ; scarlet drapery round waist ;
warm grey background; painted in an oval spandrel, inscribed
AETAT 12 1702. WM soNMANs piNxiT. Canvas, 29£ x 24| in.
Given to the Music School by the subject.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 197*.
388 JOHN CHRISTOPHER PEPUSCH
B. 1667, in Berlin ; settled in London about 1700 ; took an active
part in founding the Academy of Ancient Music, 1710 ; D.Mus.,
Oxford, 1713: Organist of the Charterhouse, 1737; com-
posed music to The Beggar's Opera ; a student of Greek music ;.
F.R.S., 1746 ; d. 1752.
Bust, three-quarters to r. ; brown periwig falling over shoulders ;
clean-shaven face ; white cravat ; purple coat ; dark back-
ground ; painted in an oval spandrel. Canvas 29| x 24J in.
Given to the Music School by Dr. Philip Hayes, before 1795.
Exhibition of National Portraits, 1867, No. 182 ; Oxford Exhibi-
tion of Historical Portraits, 1906, No. 57.
389 GEORGE FREDERICK HANDEL
Thomas Hudson.
B. 1685, at Halle; produced his first opera, 1705; travelled in
Italy ; came to England, 1710 ; visited Oxford and conducted
concerts, 1733; l d. 1759.
Bust, to 1., the head turned towards the spectator ; large white wig
over shoulders; clean-shaven face; white neckcloth ; snuff-coloured
coat with gold-embroidered edge. Canvas, oval, 31£ x 28 in.
Given to the Music School by George Colman, M.A., of Christ
Church, before 1796.
390 JAMES HESELTINE
Taylor.
B. 1690 ; a pupil of Dr. Blow ; Organist of Durham Cathedral.
1711-63; composer of anthems ; d. 1763.
Half length, three-quarters to 1. ; white periwig falling down back ;
clean-shaven face ; white cravat and shirt frill ; buff coat ; dark
waistcoat ; brown and grey background ; inscribed below to 1.
with name and title of subject. Canvas 28£ x 23| in.
1 Hearne's Reliquiae, 2nd ed. iii. 98-100.
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No. 396. SIR JOHN HAWKINS
No. 384. DR. CROFT
No. 391). SIR WILLIAM PARSONS
No. 398. J. P. SALOMAN
THE EXAMINATION SCHOOLS 161
Given to the Music School by Dr. Philip Hayes, before 1795.
Gutch states that this picture is the work of an artist named
Taylor.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1906, No. 74.
391 J. PHILIP EIFFERT
Teeds.
A hautboy player who came from London to play solos, or in the
orchestra which performed in the weekly concerts given in the
Holywell Music Room after 1754; his name occurs in the
announcements for 1758, 1760, 1762, 1773 ; ? d. in 1773.1
Bust to r. ; clean-shaven face ; Turkish dress ; greyish- white turban
with fringed end hanging behind, twisted round and over a red
cap of which the crown is visible; wide yellowish silk sash
wrapping the body, over which is a rust-red coat held together
at the neck with a jewel ; dark background. Canvas 25 x 18J in.
392 BERNARD GATES
Attributed to John Russell.
B. 1685 (?) ; Chorister of the Chapel Royal, 1702, Gentleman,
] 708 ; Master of the Choristers ; produced Handel's Esther -,
1732; 'Tuner of the Regals' at Court; d. 1773.
Half length, three-quarters to r. ; white periwig falling down back ;
clean-shaven face ; white cravat and ruffles ; brown coat and
waistcoat laced with gold ; his r. hand held before him ; warm
grey background. Canvas 29^ x 24^ in.
Given to the Music School by the pupil and heir of the subject,
Thomas Saunders Dupuis,2 between 1784 and 1795.
Engraved 1784. Reproduced in Dr. J. H. Mee's Oldest Musk-
Room in Europe.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1906, No. 96.
393 WILLIAM HAYES
John Cornish.
B. 1706 ; Chorister at Gloucester ; Organist of Worcester Cathedral,
1731, of Magdalen College, 1734; Professor of Music, 1742;
D.Mus. 1749 ; d. 1777.
Half length, three-quarters to r. ; white bushy wig ; clean-shaven
1 I owe these facts to the kindness of Dr. J. H. Mee, who gives the following
references to Jackson's Oxford Journal : May 13 and July 1, 1758 ; Feb. 16, 1760 ;
June 26, 1762 ; May 22, 1773.
2 T. S. Dupuis, Composer to the King, was himself painted by J. Russell, R.A.,
a picture engraved by C. Turner in 1797.
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162 PORTRAITS IN
face ; square bands ; lace ruffles ; white and scarlet D.Mus. robes
over black dress ; his r. hand thrust into the breast of his coat ;
dark background. Canvas 29 x 24 in.
Given to the Music School by Philip Hayes, son of the subject,
before 1787.
Engraved by T. Park, 1787.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1906, No. 88.
394 WILLIAM BOYCE ,™ _. ,
Thomas Hudson.
B. 1710 ; chorister of St. Paul's Cathedral ; composer and joint-
organist to the Chapel Royal, 1736 ; Organist, 1758 ; D.Mus.,
Cambridge, produced Solomon Serenata, 1743 ; edited Cathedral
Music, 1760; d. 1779.
Whole length, standing three-quarters to 1. ; white periwig falling
down back ; clean-shaven face ; white cravat and ruffles ; grey
clothes, the waistcoat embroidered with gold ; three-cornered
hat under his 1. arm ; his 1. hand points to an organ to 1., his r.
holds a volume inscribed SOLOMON SERENATA ; dark architectural
background ; stained-glass window to 1. Canvas 88 x 57 in.
Given to the Music School by Philip Hayes, before 1795.
Exhibition of National Portraits, 1867, No. 427 ; Oxford Exhibi-
tion of Historical Portraits, 1906, No. 136.
395 KARL FRIEDRICH ABEL
B. 1725 ; a member of the King of Saxony's band at Dresden,
1748 ; came to England, 1759 ; travelled in England and upon
the Continent giving concerts ; a celebrated performer on the
viol'-da-gamba in the Queen's band, at a salary of ^200;
d. in London, 1787.
Half length, three-quarters to 1. ; grey wig ; clean-shaven face ;
white cravat ; reddish-brown coat and waistcoat braided with
gold ; table with papers and writing materials to 1. ; dark back-
ground. Canvas 29J x 24^ in.
Gutch says that this picture is the work of an artist named Teeds.
Given to the Music School by Philip Hayes, before 1795.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1906, No. 105.
396 SIR JOHN HAWKINS James Roberts_
B. 1719 ; a Middlesex magistrate ; knighted 1772 ; executor of
the will of Dr. Johnson, whose life he published together with
THE EXAMINATION SCHOOLS 163
an edition of his works, 1787-9 ; author of a General History
of Music, 1776; d. 1789.
Half length, seated slightly to r. ; short white wig ; clean-shaven
face ; lace cravat and ruffles ; crimson velvet coat and waistcoat ;
his r. hand holds a book in his lap ; table with inkstand to r. ;
green curtain background ; bookcase, with books lettered HISTORY
OF MUSIC, to r. ; inscribed with name of subject and date 1786.
Canvas 29 x 24J in.
Given to the Music School by the painter, probably in 1788 when
Roberts was resident in Oxford.
Engraved by R. Clamp, and in Harding's Biographical Mirrour,
1796, i. 158.
Exhibition of National Portraits, 1867, No. 571 ; Oxford Exhibi-
tion of Historical Portraits, 1906, No. 126.
397 PHILIP HAYES
John Cooper.1
B. 1738 ; son of William Hayes (see No. 393) ; B.Mus. from
Magdalen College, 1763; Organist of New College, 1776;
D.Mus., Professor of Music and Organist of Magdalen College,
1777 ; restored and furnished the Music School, 1780 ; d. 1797.
Half length, three-quarters to r. ; white wig ; youthful face ; white
collar and stock and ruffles ; grey coat and waistcoat; his r. hand
thrust into the breast, his 1. holds a scroll of music ; another scroll
and books on a table to r. ; dark background ; inscribed with the
name of the subject and AETAT 20, 1758. Canvas, 29 x 25 in.
Given to the Music School by Mrs. Hughes of Bromley College,2
daughter of John Vicary, the successor of Philip Hayes at
Magdalen.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1906, No. 140.
398 JOHANN PETER SALOMON
Sir William Beechey.
B. 1745 at Bonn ; Violinist; Musician to the Elector at Bonn, c. 1757;
came to London as leader of the orchestra at Covent Garden
Theatre, 1781 ; organized concerts, in which Mozart and Haydn
took part, at the Hanover Square Rooms, 1791-2 ; supported
the foundation of the Philharmonic Society, 1813 ; d. 1815.
Half length, three-quarters to 1.; short white wig; clean-shaven face;
lace cravat and ruffles ; green coat ; his r. hand holding a pen,
1 Bloxam's Register of Magdalen College, ii. 223. Another portrait of Philip
Hayes, by James Roberts, was copied by J. Smith for the Choir Room at
Magdalen College. 2 75^ 220.
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rests on a paper lying with some books to 1. ; a violin is on
a table before him ; dark curtain background, bookcase to 1.
Canvas 29| x 24| in.
Inscribed on the back, PAINTED BY SIR w. BEECHEY 1784.
Given to the Music School by Philip Hayes, before 1795.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1906, No. 175.
399 SIR WILLIAM PARSONS
Charles Wilkin.
B. 1746 (?) ; Chorister of Westminster Abbey ; studied music in
Italy ; Master of the King's Music, 1786; D.Mus., Oxford, 1790 ;
knighted, 1795 ; Instructor in music to the Princesses, 1796 ;
Stipendiary Magistrate at Worship Street ; d. 1817.
Bust, slightly to r. ; white wig ; clean-shaven face ; silver-rimmed
spectacles ; white neck-cloth and shirt frill finished with a rosette
and brooch ; blue coat ; dark background. Canvas 29£ X &4f in.
Given to the Music School by Philip Hayes, before 1795.
Engraved by the painter, 1790.
Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1791 ; Oxford Exhibition of
Historical Portraits, 1906, No. 176.
400 SIR F. A. GORE OUSELEY
Arthur Foster.
B. 1825 ; educated at Christ Church ; succeeded as second Baronet,
1844; M.A. 1849; D.Mus. 1854; Professor of Music, 1855;
Canon of Hereford, 1886 ; Founder of St. Michael's College,
Tenbury ; d. 1889.
Half length, to 1. ; bald head ; curly white hair over the ears ;
clean-shaven face ; round collar and cuffs ; D.Mus. full-dress
gown and hood over black clerical coat; his 1. hand rests on
back of chair to 1. ; light brown background ; signed in mono-
gram and dated 1898.
Given to the Music School by a small committee of Oxford friends
of the subject.1
401 SIR JOHN STAINER
Sir HvJberi von Herkomer.
B. 1840; Chorister at St. Paul's, 1847-56; Organist at Tenbury,
1856; at Magdalen College, 1859; D.Mus. 1865; M.A. 1866;
1 F. W. Joyce, Life of Sir F. A. Gore Ouseley, p. 177. The portrait was
painted partly from memory, partly from a photograph.
THE EXAMINATION SCHOOLS 165
Organist of St. Paul's Cathedral, 1872; Professor of Music,
1889 ; d. 1901.
Three-quarters length seated slightly to r. in a red arm-chair,
looking at the spectator ; bald head, curly grey hair over the
ears ; slight grey moustache ; white collar and cuffs ; black tie ;
black gown over black clothes ; hands lightly clasped on knee ;
red curtain behind to 1. ; signed below to 1. H. v. H. ; marked
above REPLICA. Canvas 43 x 33 in.
A similar portrait is in the possession of the Livery Company of
Musicians of London, and another belongs to his family.
Busts of Henry Purcell by Bacon, and William Hayes were given
to the Music School by Philip Hayes. They have since dis-
appeared.
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PORTRAITS IN THE ASHMOLEAN
MUSEUM l
NOTE
THE following section contains the portraits which were until
1908 divided between the University Galleries and the Ashmolean
Museum. The main part of the latter collection, which came into
the possession of Elias Ashmole with other ' Rarities ' from the
Museum of the Tradescants at Lambeth, was presented to the
University by Ashmole, and transferred to Oxford in 1683. But
fourteen portraits, mostly of his astrological friends, remained in
his hands until his death in 1692. Only one — the picture of Old
Parr — is mentioned separately in the Catalogue of the Musaeum
Tradescantianum published in 1656, the others being included
under a general heading, Effigies of divers Personages of honor,
note, and quality. A catalogue of the Ashmolean collections
made by Dr. Plot, the first Keeper, about 1683, was transcribed
for the use of the Vice- Chancellor in 1697,2 ten years earlier than
Hearne compiled his list of the contents of the Bodleian Gallery,
but even then much information concerning the portraits was lack-
ing. Under the keepership of John Whiteside, — 1715-29 — some
only were inscribed with the names of the subjects and numbers
referring to his catalogue of them.3 The Ashmolean collections
were housed in the 'Repository' built for them in Broad Street
until 1894, when the rooms where they are now displayed were
added to the University Galleries. The portraits were at that
time all restored by the Keeper, Mr. Arthur John Evans.
The portraits in the former University Galleries collection have
been gathered there gradually from various sources since the founda-
tion of the Galleries in 1845, when a considerable number were trans-
ferred thither from the Bodleian. Some portraits without special
historical connexion with Oxford and some copies are omitted
from this catalogue. A fuller biographical and historical account
of the portraits which have accrued to the University by the Combe
Bequest is to be found in the catalogue of that collection, 1909.
1 See Introduction, p. xxiii sqq., especially with regard to the portraits of
the Tradescants.
2 Vice-Chancellor's Accounts preserved in the Archives of the University.
8 Preserved in MS. in the Ashmolean Museum.
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402 QUEEN ELIZABETH WOODVILLE
B. 1437 (?), daughter of Sir Richard Woodville, afterwards Earl
Rivers, and Jaquetta, widow of John Duke of Bedford ; married
to Sir John Grey, and after his death privately to Edward IV ;
crowned, 14*65 ; refounded Queens1 College, Cambridge ; d. 1492.
Half length, seen behind a parapet ; reddish hair ; cloth-of-gold
and transparent gauze head-dress ; black dress with gold-
embroidered collar and cuffs ; gold necklace, brooch and finger-
rings ; both hands folded before her ; dark-brown background ;
inscribed ELIZABETH REGINA REGIS EDUARDI ANGLIE. Panel
in.
Part of the Tradescant Collection made over to the University by
Elias Ashmole.
Similar portraits are in the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle
and at Queens' College, Cambridge.
Exhibition of National Portraits, 1866, No. 340 ; Oxford Exhibi-
tion of Historical Portraits, 1904, No. 8*.
403 QUEEN MARY
B. 1516 ; third and only surviving child of Henry VIII and Cathe-
rine of Aragon ; succeeded her half-brother, Edward VI, on the
throne, 1553 ; married Philip II, King of Spain, 1554 ; d. at St.
James's, 1558.
Three-quarters length, seated facing the spectator in an arm-chair ;
pale red hair ; red French hood edged with pearls ; low-cut
black velvet dress trimmed with jewels ; wide sleeves lined with
red and edged with ermine ; inner sleeves of cloth-of-gold slashed
with white, finished with white frills worked in black ; jewelled
necklace and girdle; hands folded before her, jewelled rings on
the first, second, and fourth fingers of the 1. ; in front an open
book, inscribed with a maxim from Epictetus in Greek, lies on
a green cushion ; dark golden damask background with shield of
arms above to 1. Panel 38J x 28J in.
Given to the University by Mr. Chambers Hall in 1855.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1904, No. 32* ; Burling-
ton Fine Arts Club Exhibition of Early English Portraiture,
1909, No. 36, where it is ascribed to the painter of the portrait
of Henry VIII * with a scroll ' at Hampton Court.
168 PORTRAITS IN
404 AN UNKNOWN NAVIGATOR1
English School.
Possibly Jean Ribaut, b. c. 1520 at Dieppe ; a Huguenot adherent
of Admiral Coligny ; sent by him to colonize Florida, 1562 ; in
England spring of 156f 2 ; published an account of his voyage,
156|3; offered Florida to Elizabeth4; returned thither and
was massacred by the Spaniards, 1565.
Half length, slightly to r. ; dark short hair ; short reddish beard
and moustache ; white pleated ruff with black edging ; sleeveless
buff coat ; steel gorget damascened with gold ; white sleeves
with long scarlet laces attached to shoulders ; model of grappling
iron (?) pendent from a red cord round neck ; he holds a compass
with both hands before him ; brown background ; inscribed
1562. Panel 22 J x 20 in.
Transferred from the Bodleian as a portrait of Columbus.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1904, No. 45* ; White-
chapel Gallery, 1909.
405 SIR FRANCIS DRAKE(?)5
School of Marcus Gheeraerts.
B. 1540 (?); circumnavigated the globe, 1577-80; in England
autumns of 1587 and 1588 ; d. 1596.
Bust, three-quarters to r., looking at the spectator ; reddish-brown
closely- trimmed hair, fairer beard and moustache ; deep pleated
white ruff; black embroidered doublet ; greyish-green back-
ground ; inscribed ^ETATIS XLVJI A° 1587 and ANNO 1588 • AETATIS
SUAE 48. Panel 18 x 16 in.
This possible identification is based upon a comparison with the
original portrait at Buckland Abbey, of which a copy was made
for the Guildhall at Plymouth in 1616. It is inscribed AETATIS
SUAE 53 ANNO 1594 6, which agrees with the date and age on
No. 405 7, and the face shows marked resemblance.
A portrait of Drake occurs in Catalogues of the Bodleian Gallery
dated 1759, 1762, and 1766.
1 A portrait called Columbus in the Bodleian Gallery, described by Gutch
as with a globe and a ship, was presented by Bernard Mould in 1707.
2 Calendar of Spanish State Papers, May 1 and June 19, 1563 ; March 30, 1566.
A translation into English was published for Thomas Racket on May 30, 1563.
Calendar of Foreign State Papers, March 29 and July 4, 1563.
I owe the suggestion of this identification to Mr. C. F. Bell.
Lady Eliott- Drake, Family and Heirs of Sir Francis Drake, frontispiece.
Supposing the Buckland Abbey portrait to be painted before Drake's
birthday in 1594.
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406 UNKNOWN LADY
Anglo-Flemish School.
Half length, standing slightly to 1. ; brown hair ; youthful face ;
white lace cap, stomacher, and cuffs ; pleated ruff; black striped
dress ; both hands hold a small clasped book in front of her ;
greenish-grey background. Panel 30 x 24 in.
Probably in the collection made over to the University by Ashmole.
407 JOHN DEE
B. 1527 ; educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, Foundation
Fellow, c. 1546 ; lectured on mathematics in Paris, 1548-50 ;
accused of practising sorcery, 1556 ; proposed to Queen Mary to
form a library from the spoils of the monasteries, 1556 ; described
his magic glass to Queen Elizabeth, 1575 ; practised astrology
and crystallomancy ; d. 1608.
Bust, three-quarters to 1. ; black skull-cap ; white moustache and
beard ; white pleated ruff ; black dress ; dark background, with
red curtain to r. ; inscribed JOHANNES DEE ANGLUS, LONDINENSIS
AETS SUAE 67 ; painted in an oval spandrel. Canvas 29 x 24| in.
Bequeathed to the University by Elias Ashmole.
Exhibition of National Portraits, 1866, No. 340 ; Oxford Exhibi-
tion of Historical Portraits, 1904, No. 96.
408 CHARLES HOWARD OF EFFINGHAM(P)
B. 1536 ; Lord High Admiral against the Armada ; K.G. 1574 ;
Earl of Nottingham 1597; d. 1624.
Bust, slightly to 1. ; black skull-cap ; fair hair, moustache, and
beard touched with grey ; white pleated lace ruff; white slashed
dress ; black gown lined with brown fur ; collar and George of
the Order of the Garter round neck; brown background.
Panel 21| x 15| in.
Probably part of the Tradescant Collection made over to the Uni-
versity by Ashmole.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1904, No. 77*.
The name once given to this portrait, Lord Wotton of Marley, is
an error since he never had the Garter. The identification here
suggested is supported by the portrait in Holland's Basilialogia
published 1618, and a comparison with paintings at Hampton
Court and the National Portrait Gallery.
170 PORTRAITS IN
409 AN UNKNOWN GEOMETRICIAN
Italian School.
Half length, seated to 1. in an elbow-chair ; black cap ; youthful
face ; slight beard and moustache ; white pleated ruff and cuffs ;
black dress ; his r. hand holds a pair of compasses on a geo-
metrical diagram which lies beside a square, inkstand, and pen,
on a table before him ; dark background. Canvas 38 x 30| in.
Formerly supposed to represent the painter Federigo Zuccaro.
Once in the Bodleian Gallery ; it first appears in the Catalogue of
1759 as ' Mr. Zuckery a famous painter '.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1904, No. 97*.
410 UNKNOWN MAN
Italian School.
Half length, standing slightly to 1. ; short dark hair ; very faint
moustache ; white pleated ruff; dark-brown dress ; his 1. hand
holds a jewel, his r. rests upon an indefinite object ; green back-
ground. Panel 34 x 28§ in.
Probably part of the Tradescant Collection.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1904, No. 98*.
411 RICHARD NAPIER
B. 1559 ; educated at Exeter College, 1577 ; Rector of Great Lin-
ford, Bucks., 1590 ; licensed to practise medicine, 1604, and
mingled it with astrology ; d. 1634.
Half length, slightly to r. ; grey hair, moustache and peaked beard;
white cap embroidered with gold; pleated ruff; black dress;
both hands before him, his r. holding a book ; dark background.
Canvas 30 x 25J in.
Bequeathed to the University by Elias Ashmole, 1692.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1904, No. 13.
412 THOMAS PARR
B. 1483 (?) ; tenant farmer at Alberbury, Shropshire, whose lease
was renewed 1522, 1564, 1585; m. first Jane Taylor, 1563,
secondly Jane Hood, 1605 ; known as ' Old Parr ' ; brought to
London and presented to the King, 1635 ; d. 1635, buried in
Westminster Abbey.
Three-quarters length, standing three-quarters to 1. ; white hair,
moustache and beard ; falling collar ; brown jacket and breeches;
knotted girdle round waist ; his r. hand holds a staff, his 1. grasps
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THE ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM . 171
his girdle ; landscape background with overhanging rock to r. ;
inscribed AET18 SUE 152. Canvas 41 x 31 J in.
The only portrait catalogued in the Tradescantian Museum in 1656 ;
made over to the University by Elias Ashmole, 1683.
A similar picture is in the National Portrait Gallery, where it is
attributed to the school of Paul Van Somer.
Exhibition of National Portraits, 1866, No. 772; Oxford Ex-
hibition of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 14.
413 JOHN TRADESCANT THE ELDER
Probably from the Eastern counties; travelled to Russia by sea, 1618,
and wrote an account of the voyage with the earliest descrip-
tion known of Russian plants ; joined as gentleman- volunteer an
expedition against the corsairs of Algiers ; established a museum
and botanic garden at Lambeth ; said to have been the first
gardener at the Physic Garden at Oxford, 1632 ; d. 1638.
Bust, three-quarters to r., emerging from clouds against cloudy
background ; grey hair, beard and moustache ; black skull-cap ;
falling collar ; black dress. Panel 6^ x 5| in.
Formed part with the two following of the Tradescantian collection
made over to the University by Elias Ashmole, 1683.
Engraved by W. Hollar, 1656.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 16.
414 THE SAME
Attributed to Emanuell de Critz.
Bust, three-quarters to 1., looking at spectator ; grey hair, mous-
tache and long beard ; gold ring in ear ; black skull-cap ; white
falling collar ; black doublet ; dark-green background ; painted
in an ornamental oval spandrel, in the angles of which are groups
of roots, fruits, shells, and flowers ; inscribed (c. 1720)1 s JOHN
TRADESCANT SENR. Canvas 31 x £4J in ; based upon No. 413.
415 THE SAME ON HIS DEATH-BED
Half length, lying, the head to 1., resting on a white pillow ; grey
beard and moustache ; white shroud swathed round the shoulders
and drawn over the head ; black ribbon bow under chin ; red
coverlid over the body ; red curtain background ; inscribed (c. 1720)
SB JOHN TRADESCANT SENK LATELY DECEASED. Canvas 24 X 29 111.
1 This inscription and others similarly dated were painted on some of the
Ashmolean pictures in the keepership of John Whiteside, 1714-29.
172 PORTRAITS IN
416 SIR JOHN SUCKLING
Attributed to Cornelius de Neve.
B. 1609; entered Trinity College, Cambridge, 1628; travelled,
1628 ; knighted, 1630 ; a poet and patron of letters ; devised the
' first army plot ' ; fled to France ; a., perhaps by suicide, 1642.
Bust, three-quarters to 1. ; fair hair falling to shoulders ; youthful
face ; deep lace-edged collar ; plate armour ; scarlet sash across
breast ; grey background ; inscribed (c. 1720) SIR JOHN SUCKLING
painted in an oval spandrel. Canvas 28 x 23 in.
Formed part of the collection made over to the University by Elias
Ashmole, 1683.
Exhibition of National Portraits, 1866, No. 682, where it is attri-
buted to W. Dobson ; Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits,
1905, No. 27.
417 ANNE HARRINGTON, LADY MOLYNEUX
B. c. 1590; daughter of Sir James Harrington of Ridlington,
Rutland, and Lucy, daughter of Sir William Sidney ; married
first Thomas Foljambe, and secondly, as his second wife, Sir John
Molyneux of Teversall, Notts., who was created a baronet in
1611. He was Sheriff of Nottinghamshire in 1609 and 1611 and
lived in so lavish a style as greatly to impoverish his family;
he died 1618. His widow, with her only son and heir Roger,
petitioned the King, March 1639, for a commission, which
was granted her, to inquire into the state of her own fortune,
apparently sequestrated for her husband's debts ; d. 1644.1
Three-quarters length, seated three-quarters to r., looking at the
spectator, in a red arm-chair ; grey hair in curls round the face ;
black veil over head ; pearl ear-rings ; white cuffs and deep collar
tied with black ribbons; two strings of pearls round neck;
black dress ; her r. hand, holding a small book, rests on the arm
of her chair, her 1., holding handkerchief, lies in her lap ; architec-
tural and curtain background ; landscape through opening to r. ;
to 1. a table covered with a scarlet cloth upon which are an hour-
glass and a skull ; above to r., coat of arms of Harrington of
Ridlington (sa.9 a fret arg.) ; below, that of Molyneux of Teversall,
Notts. (az.9 a cross moline or). Canvas 49 x 39 in.
Formed part of the collection made over to the University by Elias
Ashmole in 1683 — hitherto named, but not identified.
1 Calendar Domestic State Papers, March, 1639.
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418 THOMAS HOWARD, SECOND EARL OF ARUNDEL
Copy from Sir Anthony Van Dyck.
B. 1586; KG. 1611; Earl Marshal, 1621; employed in diplo-
matic and military service for the king ; travelled in Italy and
made the famous Arundel Collection of works of art and inscrip-
tions, the latter of which was given to the University by his
younger grandson Henry, afterwards 6th Duke of Norfolk,
through the intervention of John Evelyn, in 1667 ; d. at Padua,
1646.
Bust, three-quarters to r., looking at spectator ; grey hair, beard,
and moustache ; white falling collar ; steel plate armour ; George
of the Order of the Garter hanging from gold chain round neck ;
brown background, cloth-of-gold curtain to r. ; inscribed (c. 1720)
THOMAS EARL OF ARTJNDELL SURREY & NORFOLK ; Canvas 31 X 24£ in.
Copy from part of the picture by Van Dyck of the earl and his
grandson, in the possession of the Duke of Norfolk. (See No. 438.)
From the Tradescant Collection.
419 KING CHARLES I
Copy from Sir Anthony Van Dyck.
B. November 19, 1600, second son of King James I and Anne of
Denmark; created Prince of Wales, 1616; succeeded to the throne,
1625 ; occupied Oxford, 1642-6 ; beheaded at Whitehall, January
30, 1649.
Bust, in profile to r. ; dark hair falling to shoulders, fair moustache
and tuft on chin ; deep lace collar ; black dress ; blue ribbon
with George of the Order of the Garter round neck ; his 1. hand
touches the ribbon ; grey background. Canvas 29 x 25 in.
Nearly contemporary copy of the head on the left in the picture of
the King in three positions, painted about 1637, as a model for
the Bernini bust, in the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle.
Either given or bequeathed to the University by Elias Ashmole ;
d. 1692.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 71.
420 THE SAME
Copy after Sir Peter Lely.
Bust, three-quarters to r. ; brown hair falling to shoulders ; mous-
tache and tuft on chin ; lace-edged collar ; black dress ; ribbon
of the Order of the Garter across breast, with star at his 1. side ;
warm grey background; painted in an oval spandrel. Canvas
29x24Jin.
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Copy from the group of the King and the Duke of York, painted
about 1647, in the possession of the Duke of Northumberland.
Either given or bequeathed to the University by Elias Ashmole ;
d. 1692.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 73.
421 UNKNOWN MAN
English School.
Bust, three-quarters to r. ; grey hair, moustache and peaked beard ;
falling collar; grey dress; in front is seen the top of a staff;
warm grey background ; painted in an oval spandrel ; inscribed
AETAT . . 167 . . Canvas 21^ x 19J in.
Formerly supposed to represent Inigo Jones ; who, however,
d. 1652.
Formed part of the collection made over to the University by Elias
Ashmole, 1683, and described in the first catalogue as Pictura,
ut dicitur Inegonis Jones.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 137.
422 JOHN TRADESCANT, SON OF JOHN
TRADESCANT THE YOUNGER
B. 1633 ; the third of the name ; s. of John Tradescant and his first
wife, Jane, who d. 1634 ; d. 1652.
Half length, as a little boy, slightly to r. ; fair hair falling to neck ;
deep white collar edged with lace, with bandstrings ; tawny-yellow
coat with long skirts, trimmed with silver lace; grey shaded
background ; painted in an oval spandrel. Canvas 26 x 24 in.
From the Tradescant Collection.
423 KATHERINE BRYDGES, COUNTESS OF BEDFORD (?)
B. 1579 (?) ; second daughter and co-heir of Giles Brydges, Lord
Chandos, and Frances, daughter of Edward, Earl of Lincoln ;
married Francis, Lord Russell of Thornhaugh, who in 1627 suc-
ceeded as fourth Earl of Bedford; lived at Chenies, Bucks.;
d. 1657.
Bust, slightly to r. ; black broad-brimmed hat ; falling lace-edged
ruff; black embroidered dress, the bosom and neck open over
white underdress worked with colours ; dark background. Canvas
21 X 16| in.
Given to the University by Philip B. Duncan, Keeper of the Ash-
molean in 1846.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 51.
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424 ROBERT WALKER
Robert Walker.
The painter of the best known portraits of Cromwell and his gene-
rals, and perhaps of Cromwell's father, Robert, who died 1617 ;
painted, 1648, the portrait of John Evelyn, who described him
as < that excellent painter' ; d. 1658 (?).
Half length, to r., the head turned three-quarters towards the
spectator ; brown hair falling to shoulders, slight moustache
and tuft on chin ; falling collar ; black dress ; shirt showing at
wrist ; his r. hand points to a statuette of Mercury, seen to r. ;
warm grey background ; signed WALKER PICTOR ET PINXIT. Canvas
29 x 24 in.
In the Bodleian Gallery in 1679.
Exhibition of National Portraits, 1866, No. 809 ; Oxford Exhibi-
tion of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 69*.
425 JOHN LOWIN
B. 1576 ; joined the King's company of Players, 1603 ; part-owner
of Blackfriars Theatre, 1608 ; manager, 1623 ; mentioned in the
list of actors in the first folio of Shakespeare, 1623, and Beaumont
and Fletcher, 1647 ; played Henry VIII, Falstaff, and perhaps
Hamlet ; d. 1659.
Half length, slightly to r. ; grey hair falling to neck, moustache
and tuft on chin ; deep square collar ; black dress ; his r. hand
held before him ; grey background ; inscribed AETAT 64, A° 1640.
Canvas 29 x 25 in.
Bequeathed to the University by Elias Ashmole, 1692.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 70*.
426 JOHN TRADESCANT THE YOUNGER1
Attributed to William Dobson.
B. 1608, at Meopham, Kent ; made additions to his father's collec-
tions and was the owner of * Tradescant's Ark' at Lambeth at
the height of its fame ; published in 1656 catalogue of the con-
tents of his museum ; first settled it upon Elias Ashmole by deed
of gift, and subsequently devised it to his wife by will ; d. 1662.
Three-quarters length, standing slightly to r. ; dark hair, moustache
and beard ; large black cap ; black fur-lined coat over white shirt
1 See Introduction, p. xxiii.
176 PORTRAITS IN
open at bosom ; his r. hand holds a fold of his coat, his 1. rests on
the handle of a spade ; landscape background ; inscribed (c. 1720)
S* JOHN TRADESCANT JUNB IN HIS GARDEN. Canvas 42 X 34 in.
Formed part of the Tradescantian Museum, made over to the Uni-
versity by Elias Ashmole, 1683.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 84.
427 THE SAME AND HIS FRIEND
ZYTHEPSA1 OF LAMBETH
Attributed to Emamiett de Critz.
Two half length figures standing ; Tradescant three-quarters to r.,
Zythepsa facing him, to r. of a table on which is a large heap of
shells; Tradescant has dark hair, moustache and beard; wears
deep square collar and grey cloak ; his 1. hand holds a wand, his
r. grasps the 1. hand of his friend, who has white hair, moustache
and beard, and wears red dress and white square collar; dark
architectural background, sunset sky through opening in centre ;
inscribed (c. 1720) SK JOHN TRADESCANT JUNK & HIS FRIEND ZYTHEPSA
OF LAMBETH. Canvas 42 x 52 in.
Formed part of the Tradescantian Museum, made over to the
University by Elias Ashmole, 1683.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 83.*
428 THE SAME AND HIS SECOND WIFE
HESTER2
Two half length figures facing one another, Tradescant three-
quarters to r., Mrs. Tradescant three-quarters to 1. ; he has
bushy dark brown hair and beard ; and wears white falling
collar with bandstrings ; black coat with metal buttons ; his 1.
hand holds silver watch, to which are attached silver chain and
gold watch-key ; she wears black silk hood ; deep white cuffs,
and collar, with bandstrings, tied with knots of yellow and green
ribbon and fastened with a small jewel ; brownish-yellow dress ;
her r. hand, holding a sprig of orange-blossom, rests upon his
wrist ; greenish-grey background, the corners cut offby spandrels ;
1 Zythepsa, a brewer of Lambeth, is said to have been a Quaker, but it
seems improbable in view of his dress.
* See No. 439 for biographical note, and Introduction.
XXVI
No. 426. SIR JOH.V TBADESCANT,
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inscribed below (c. 1780) SR JOHN TRADESCANT JUNIOR AND HIS
WIFE: 50, 1656 in the spandrel above Tradescant's head and
48, 1656 above Mrs. Tradescant. Canvas 28J x 46£ in.
Formed part of the Tradescant Collection.
429 LADY ELIZABETH POWLETT
Attributed to Daniel My tens.
Described in old catalogues as the portrait of a member of the
Duke of Bolton's family, in a dress of her own work. Possibly
the lady whose gift of some needlework, executed by herself,
representing scenes from the Gospel, was accepted by the Uni-
versity on July 9, 1636, and was mentioned by Hearne, along
with the portrait of the donor, in 1705. Perhaps Elizabeth,
daughter of Sir Thomas Kenn, and wife of John, first Baron
Powlett, of Hinton St. George, Somerset ; d. 1663 (?).
Full length, standing three-quarters to 1. ; white feather head-
dress; white lace ruff, cuffs, and apron; low-cut dress richly
embroidered in colours ; rose-coloured cloak ; pearl necklace ;
her 1. hand holds a small picture, her r. rests on a book which
lies beside a lute on a table to 1. ; a squirrel sitting on her r.
forearm ; landscape and curtain background. Canvas 74 x 53 J in.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1904, No. 74 ; White-
chapel Exhibition, 1909. Once in the Bodleian.
430 UNKNOWN MAN
School of Philippe de Champaigne.
Bust, slightly to 1. ; grey hair falling ^to shoulders ; clean-shaven
face; square lace-edged bands; black gown over brown dress ; dark
background ; painted in an oval spandrel. Canvas 29 X 24J in.
Several portraits described briefly as ' pictura clarissimi viri ' occur
in the oldest catalogue of the collection.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1905, No
431 THOMAS ALCOCK
Samuel Cooper.
Bust, to 1., the head turned three-quarters towards the spectator ;
long hair falling to shoulders ; youthful face ; plain collar ;
black chalk drawing on white paper, 6f x 4T5^ in.
On the back-board of the frame is inscribed —
178 PORTRAITS IN
This picture
was drawne for mee
attheEarleof West-
morelands house
at Apethorpe, in
Northampton shire
by the Greate, (tho1 little)
Limner, the then famous
Mr. Cooper of Covent
Garden : when I was
eighteen years of
age
Thomas Alcock
preceptor.
Bequeathed to the University by Dr. Rawlinson in 1755.
Transferred from the Bodleian Library, 1897.
432 CORNELIUS DE NEVE
Cornelius de Neve.
Probably the portrait, painted by himself, of a Flemish artist,
pictures signed by whom are in the National Portrait Gallery
(dated 1627), at Knole (dated 1637), and at Petworth (a group
of himself and his family); mentioned by Evelyn, 1649; he
painted in 1664 a portrait of Elias Ashmole, now lost.
Half length, three-quarters to r. ; brown hair falling to shoulders,
slight moustache and tuft on chin ; black cap with peak turned
up in front ; white cravat knotted round neck ; black dress ; his
r. hand held before him ; warm grey background ; inscribed
(c. 1720) MR. LE NEVE A FAMOUS PAINTER; painted in an oval
spandrel. Canvas 26 J x 22| in.
Formed part of the collection made over to the University by
Elias Ashmole, 1683.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 65*.
433 MICHAEL BURCK
A POOR KNIGHT OF WINDSOR.
Bust, slightly to r., looking at spectator ; white curling hair falling
to shoulders, moustache and tuft on chin ; black skull-cap ;
white falling collar; black mantle, fastened at the neck with
silver clasp, with arms of St. George on his 1. shoulder, open in
THE ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM 179
front over scarlet coat; dark brown background; Canvas
27 x 23 in.
Formed part of the collection made over to the University by Elias
Ashmole.
434 JOHN SELDEN
B. 1584 ; educated at Hart Hall ; the learned jurist and great
scholar ; benefactor to the Bodleian Library ; d. 1654.
Bust, three-quarters to 1. ; brown hair falling to neck, and over fore-
head ; clean-shaven face ; falling collar ; black dress ; dark back-
ground. Canvas 28 x 23^ in.
Bequeathed to the University by Elias Ashmole, 1692.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 54.
A similar picture is in the National Portrait Gallery.
435 NICHOLAS FISKE
Attributed to Cornelius de Neve.
B. 1575 ; of a Suffolk county family ; practised Medicine and
Astrology in London ; well versed in mathematics, astrology,
and astronomy; friend of Lilly, Booker, and Ashmole; published
an Astrological Discourse by Heydon, 1650 ; d. 1659.
Half length, three-quarters to r. ; white hair, moustache and peaked
beard ; black skull-cap ; falling collar ; black dress ; his r. hand,
wearing a grey glove, holds a book ; warm grey background, with
shield of arms above to 1. ; inscribed AETATIS SUAE 76, ANNO 1651
FECIT. Canvas 29 X 24 J in.
Probably the nameless picture in the list of those bequeathed by
Ashmole marked in the first catalogue 4 Reverendus Vir D . . .
SSTL. D. 59' ; first identified in the catalogue of 1836.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 64*.
436 UNKNOWN MAN
School of Sir Peter Lely.
Bust, three-quarters to r., the head turned three-quarters to 1. ;
grey periwig falling over shoulders; clean-shaven face; lace
cravat ; white shirt ; sky-blue drapery round shoulders ; dark
background ; painted in an ornamental oval spandrel. Canvas
X 24 in.
Bequeathed to the University by C. Drury E. Fortnum, 1899.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 126.
o 2
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437 EDWARD MONTAGU, EARL OF
MANCHESTER
School of Sir Anthony Van Dyck.
B. 1602 ; educated at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge ; leader of
the Puritan party in the House of Lords, 1640 ; held the Great
Seal, 1646-8 ; Chancellor of the University of Cambridge,
1649-51 ; Lord Chamberlain, 1660 ; K.G., 1661 ; d. 1671.
Bust, slightly to 1., the head turned three quarters to r. ; brown
hair falling to shoulders, moustache and peaked beard ; falling
collar; steel and gold breastplate; brown and gold sleeves
slashed showing white shirt ; dark background. Canvas 24 x 21 in.
Formed part of the Collection made over to the University by
Elias Ashmole, 1683. A similar portrait is at the Royal Society.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 105 *.
438 THOMAS HOWARD, FIFTH DUKE OF
NORFOLK
Copy from Van Dyck.
B. 1627 ; s. of Frederick Henry third Earl of Arundel and elder
grandson of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, the great art
collector; the Dukedom restored to him, 1660; d. at Padua,
1677.
Half length, as a boy, standing three-quarters to 1; fair hair falling
to neck ; narrow white collar ; red satin doublet ; double string
of pearls across breast ; his r. hand holds a paper, his 1. rests on
his hip ; background of cloth-of-gold curtain ; inscribed (c. 1720)
THOMAS DUKE OF NORFOLK RESTORED TO BE DUKE BY KING CHARLES
THE 13TH OF HIS REIGN. Canvas 30 x 27 in.
Copy of the second figure in the same picture as No. 418. Ash-
mole Collection.
439 HESTER AND JOHN TRADESCANT THE THIRD
Attributed to Emanuell de Critz.
Hester Pooks, b. 1608 (?) ; m. 1638, as his 2nd wife, John Trades-
cant the younger (see No. 426) ; after the death of her stepson
John (No. 422), she agreed with her husband that his collections
should, upon the death of the survivor of them, become the
property of Elias Ashmole, who had been an inmate of their
house ; Tradescant subsequently tried by will to neutralize this
deed of gift by bequeathing the ' Closet of Rarities ' to his wife
THE ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM 181
for life, and afterwards ' to the Universities of Oxford or Cam-
bridge, to which of them she shall think fitt ' ; the will was,
upon the suit of Ashmole, set aside, 1664, but Mrs. Tradescant's
life-interest upheld ; subjected to ceaseless persecution by
Ashmole, she parted with some of the collections to him in her
lifetime; she was found drowned in the pond in her garden,
April 4, 1678.
Three-quarters length figures; Mrs. Tradescant, standing three-
quarters to 1., wears black broad-brimmed hat over white cap ;
deep lace-edged collar and cuffs; grey gown open over white
petticoat, embroidered in red ; her 1. hand holds her gown, her r.
a jewel in a paper, held up before her by the boy, who stands
facing her ; he has fair hair falling to neck, and wears square
collar and grey dress ; dark architectural background, sunset sky
through opening to 1. ; inscribed ^TATIS : 37 SEPBRIS ANNO DOMINI
1645. .ETIS 12, A.D. 1645; and (c. 1720) 124 SE JOHN TRADESCANT
HIS SECOND WIFE AND SON. Canvas 53J x 43J in.
Formed part of the Tradescantian Collection made over to the
University by Elias Ashmole, 1683.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 140 *.
440 HESTER, FRANCES, AND JOHN TRADESCANT
Attributed to William Dobson.1
Three-quarters length figures, walking towards 1. ; Mrs. Trades-
cant on the r., the boy on the 1., their heads turned three-
quarters to 1., the girl, between them, three-quarters to r. ; Mrs.
Tradescant wears a black broad-brimmed hat over white cap ;
deep lace-edged collar ; brown dress trimmed with gold lace and
flame-coloured ribbon ; her 1. hand at her side, her r. rests on the
arm of the boy, who has fair hair falling to neck, and wears deep
lace-edged collar, and dark green dress; his 1. hand, wearing
fur glove, is on his hip, his r. rests on a walking-stick ; the girl
has fair hair falling to shoulders, and wears low-necked black
dress with lace collar; architectural background; inscribed
(c. 1720) SR JOHN TRADESCANT SENR, HIS WIFE, SON AND DAUGHTER.
Canvas 43 x 46 in.
Formed part of the Tradescantian Collection made over to the
University by Elias Ashmole, 1683.
Exhibition of National Portraits, 1866, No. 988 ; Oxford Exhi-
bition of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 141*.
1 See Summary Guide, p. 112, where this and No. 426 are described as ' cer-
tainly most accomplished work of the English School of Vandyck, and one or
both may be by Dobson '.
182 PORTRAITS IN
441 FRANCES TRADESCANT
B. 1630 (?) ; m. Alexander Norman ; living a widow in 1661. l
Half length, as a young girl, slightly to 1., looking at spectator ;
flaxen hair falling to neck tied with sky-blue ribbon ; deep white
collar edged with lace; tawny yellow dress trimmed with sky-
blue ribbons ; the sleeves slashed and pulled with white and em-
broidered with sky-blue and red; grey shaded background;
painted in an oval spandrel. Canvas 27 X 24 in.
Part of the Tradescant Collection.
442 UNKNOWN LADY, PROBABLY OF THE
TRADESCANT FAMILY2
Bust, three-quarters to r., looking at the spectator ; brown hair in
curls round the face ; broad-brimmed black hat ; deep white
collar or cape ; black dress trimmed with white ; gold ring
hanging by black threads round neck ; warm grey background.
Canvas 23£ x 17£ in.
Probably the picture formerly designated Esther, Lady Wotton of
Marley ; from the Tradescant Collection.
443 OLIVER DE CRITZ3
Attributed to Emanuell de Critz.
B. 1625 (?); elder son of John de Critz (1595 ?-l 644 ?), Sergeant
Painter in 1610, when he was too young to execute the office
alone ; in 1640 Oliver is said to be too old to enjoy a poor
scholar's place at the Charterhouse School, and his younger
brother Henry applies for it in his stead.4
Half length, to 1., the head turned three-quarters towards the spec-
tator ; dark hair falling to shoulders ; clean-shaven face ; falling
collar ; grey cloak lined with another shade of grey ; his r. hand
holds a paper ; grey background ; inscribed (c. 1720) 85 SB OLIVER
DE CRATS A FAMOUS PAINTER.5 Canvas 26^ X 20^ in.
Formed part of the Tradescant Collection made over to the Uni-
versity by Elias Ashmole, 1683.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 82*.
1 When her father made his will, Notes and Queries, 1st ser. v. 367-8.
2 It was not so considered by William Huddesford, Keeper of the Museum,
who investigated the history of the Tradescant portraits in 1772, but may repre-
sent John's first wife Jane.
3 The name is spelt in various ways, most commonly as here, or Decreets.
* Dow. State Papers, 23 June, 1640 : attention was first called to this entry by
Mr. Arthur Chamberlain in the Art Journal, July, 1905.
6 See also Introduction, p. xxiv.
THE ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM 183
444 WILLIAM LILLY
B. 1602; began to practise and teach Astrology, 1632, and to
publish prophecies, 1644 ; issued almanacks, 1647-82 ; rewarded
by Parliament for favourable predictions, 1648 ; practised medi-
cine, 1670; d. 1681.
Half length, three-quarters to 1. ; dark hair falling to shoulders,
moustache and tuft on chin ; falling collar ; black dress ; his r.
hand holds a pen, his 1. a paper, with the outline of a horoscope
inscribed AETATIS 45. NON COGUNT; architectural and curtain
background ; sunset sky through opening to 1. ; dated 1646.
Canvas 29x24 in.
Given by the subject, January 29, 1652, to Elias Ashmole, who
bequeathed it to the University, 1692.
Exhibition of National Portraits, 1866, No. 138 ; Exhibition of
Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 138.
445 KING CHARLES II
Attributed to John Riley.
B. 1630 ; son of Charles I and Henrietta Maria ; succeeded 1649 ;
ascended the throne, 1660 ; d. 1685.
Bust, three-quarters to 1., looking at spectator ; clean-shaven face ;
long dark curling wig flowing over shoulders ; white lace cravat ;
steel plate armour ; ribbon of the Order of the Garter across
breast ; dark brown background. Canvas, oval, 29 X 24 in.
Given to the Museum by the Founder, 1686-7, when 1*. was paid
for hanging it.
446 JOHN MAURICE, COUNT OF
NASSAU-SIEGEN *
B. 1604 ; commanded the Dutch settlement in Brazil, 1636-44 ;
d. 1691.
Bust, three-quarters to r., looking at the spectator; grey hair,
moustache and tuft on chin ; white cravat with lace ends ; black
and russet plate armour ; Maltese cross hanging by chain round
neck ; blue sash across breast with pendent badge of the Order
of the Elephant ; dark grey background ; painted in an oval
spandrel. Canvas 34 x 26J in.
Formerly in the Bodleian Gallery ; it was given to the University,
1 This identification is given on the judgement of a high authority on Dutch
history and art. The name of this member of the Nassau family does not occur
among Knights of the Elephant (Berlien, Der Elephantenorderi). But the list
there given is probably not complete.
PORTRAITS IN
in 1734, as a picture of Axel Oxenstierna, Chancellor of Sweden
(d. 1654), by Dr. Rawlinson, who bought it for £1. 6s. at a sale
of Thomas Rawlinson's and Lord Craven's pictures that year.1
447 ELIAS ASHMOLE
Attributed to John Riley.
B. 1617 ; appointed Commissioner of Excise by Charles I ; in
Oxford, 1644 ; entered Brasenose College ; studied mathematics,
chemistry, and astrology ; Windsor Herald, 1660 ; published
a History of the Order of the Garter, 1672 ; obtained possession
of the Closet of Rarities collected by the Tradescants and pre-
sented it to the University, 1683 ; added his library by bequest ;
d. 1692.
Three-quarters length, standing slightly to 1., the head turned
slightly to r., and looking at the spectator ; long flaxen curled
wig, flowing over shoulders ; clean-shaven face ; lace cravat and
ruffles ; red velvet coat ; tawny yellow drapery round hips ;
gold chain with portrait medal attached (that given to Ashmole by
the Great Elector) looped round waist ; his 1. hand on his hip,
his r. holds a closed book inscribed: ASHMOLE OF THE GARTER,
which stands beside a round box, inscribed : c. R., filled with
gold coins, two gold medals, one with a chain attached, and a
gold George of the Order of the Garter, on a table to 1. ; below
this group of objects are the words 'Praemia Honoraria'; dark
brown background. Canvas 49 x 39J in.
Painted 1683 2, apparently for the purpose of presentation to the
Museum by the Founder.
Exhibition of National Portraits, 1866, No. 991.
448 THE SAME
Attributed to John Riley.
Bust, three-quarters to r., looking at the spectator ; long curled
light brown wig falling over shoulders ; lace cravat ; dark
dress; gold medal and chain (that given to Ashmole by
Christian V, King of Denmark) round neck ; brown background ;
painted in an oval spandrel; inscribed AET 73. 1689. Canvas
29 x 23i in.
Presented to the University by Mr. T. Whitcombe Greene, 1907.
The previous history of this picture is unknown, but it is pre-
sumably the ' second picture ' by Riley, for which Ashmole sat
on Sept. 14, 1687.3
1 See the marked Catalogue in the Bodleian Library, Crynes 808, and Rawl.
MS. C. 937, fol. 100.
3 Ashmole, Diary, Feb. 2, 1683. 3 Ibid. 1687.
THE ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM 185
449 ROBERT PLOT
William Rieder.
B. 1640 ; educated at Magdalen Hall ; M. A. 1664 ; D.C.L. 1671 ;
published the Natural History of Oxfordshire, 1677 ; Fellow and
Secretary of the Royal Society, 1682-4 ; first Keeper of the
Ashmolean Museum and Professor of Chemistry, 1683-90 ; d.
1696.
Bust, three-quarters to r. ; grey periwig falling over shoulders ;
clean-shaven face ; lace cravat ; black dress ; dark background ;
painted in an ornamental oval spandrel. Canvas £9£ X 24| in.
Engraved by M. Burghers.
In the Ashmolean Museum before 1756.
Exhibition of National Portraits, 1866, No. 955 ; Oxford Exhi-
bition of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 188*.
450 JOHN AUBREY1
William Faithorne.
B. 1626 ; educated at Trinity College ; an indefatigable antiquary
and historian ; F.R.S. 1663 ; left collections including short bio-
graphies of great value ; d. 1697.
Bust, three-quarters to r., looking at the spectator ; dark wig falling
over shoulders ; clean-shaven face ; lace bands ; coat with knots
of ribbon on shoulders ; embroidered sash across breast ; plain
background, the portrait bounded by an oval line ; beneath is
written < Mr. John Aubrey, R.S.S., 1666, Aetatis 40.' Drawing
in black lead, the face touched with red, on vellum. 7^ x 5J in.
On the back-board of the frame is written in Aubrey's hand —
Effigies Johannis Awbrey
de Easton Pierse
Guliel: Faythorne
Amicitiae ergo adumbravit
An. Dni. 1666.
Given to the Ashmolean Museum by the subject, subsequently
transferred to the Bodleian Library, re-transferred to the
Museum, 1904.
451 KING JAMES II
Attributed to John Riley.
B. 1633 ; son of Charles I and Henrietta Maria ; succeeded to the
throne, 1685; fled to France, 1688 ; d. 1701.
1 A miniature of himself by Cooper was also given to the Museum by Aubrey,
which was stolen before or in 1691 with one of Archbishop Bancroft by Milliard.
See letter from Aubrey to John Ray, Oct. 22, 1691, printed in Ray's Memoirs.
186 PORTRAITS IN
Bust, three-quarters to 1., looking at the spectator ; long curled
flaxen wig falling over shoulders ; clean-shaven face ; white lace
cravat ; steel plate armour ; ribbon of the Order of the Garter
across breast; brownish-grey background. Canvas, oval, 30 x 24 in.
Given to the Museum by the Founder, 1686-7.
A payment of 2s. occurs in the Museum accounts for 1686-7 for
hanging this portrait and that of Charles II.
452 KING WILLIAM III, AS A CHILD
Copy from Cornelius Janssen the Younger.
B. 1650, at the Hague ; son of William II of Orange and Mary of
England ; K.G. 1653 ; married Mary, daughter of James II ;
called to the throne of England, 1688 ; d. 1702.
Three-quarters length, standing three-quarters to 1., looking at the
spectator ; dark hair hanging about neck ; white wrist ruffles, and
deep collar edged with lace, with band strings ; yellow gown, the
sleeves slashed and pulled with white ; ribbon of the Order of the
Garter across breast with jewelled George hanging at his r. side ;
his 1. hand hangs by his side, his r. rests beside plumed hat upon
a table with a crimson cover to 1. ; background of red curtain.
Canvas 46J x 28 in.
Copy from the picture of which examples are at Knole and in the
National Portrait Gallery, and at Windsor.
Probably the picture bequeathed to the Museum by Elias Ashmole
catalogued under the name of Henry, Duke of Gloucester.
453 SIR JOHN CHARDIN
Attributed to Bartholomew Dandridge.
B. 1643, in Paris ; a jewel merchant, travelled in the East
1664-70 and 1671-7 ; published narrative of his journeys ;
settled in England as a Huguenot refugee, and knighted 1681 ;
F.R.S. 1682; d. 1713.
Three-quarters length, seated three-quarters to r., the head turned
towards the spectator ; grey periwig falling over shoulders ;
clean-shaven face ; purplish-brown gown lined with blue ; white
cravat and shirt ; his r. hand rests on the arm of his chair, his 1.
points to the map of Persia, held up before him by a black boy ;
in background, curtain to 1., bookshelves to r. ; inscribed ANNO
1711 AETATIS 68. Canvas 54£ x 54£ in.
On the frame is an inscription commemorating the gift of the
picture by Sir John Chardin, Bart., eldest son of the subject,
1746.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 218.
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454 AN ASSEMBLY OF ARTISTS
William Hogarth.
MICHAEL DAHL, b. at Stockholm, 1656 ; portrait painter ; settled
in London, 1688 ; d. there, 1743.
— HAMILTON ; no artist of this name has yet been identified who
could have been present at an assembly held in 1730 or 1735.1
MARCELLUS LAROON, the younger, b. in London (?), 1679 ; painter
of small portrait groups ; d. 1772.
GIBBONS. The only known English artist of this name is GRINLING
GIBBONS, b. at Rotterdam, 1648 ; settled in London before 1671,
and d. 1720; too early therefore for this group if the supposed
date is correct.
JOHN MICHAEL RYSBRACK, b. at Antwerp (?), 1693 ; sculptor ; settled
in London, 1720 ; d. there, 1770.
JOHN VANDERBANK, b. in Paris, naturalized in England 1700; portrait
painter ; d. in London, 1739.
WILLIAM KENT, b. 1685 ; architect and decorative painter ; d. in
London, 1748.
CHARLES BRIDGMAN ; landscape gardener ; d. 1738.
The foregoing are identified by numbers over the heads of the
figures referring to a list inscribed in the top left-hand corner of
the picture ; the remaining seven figures are unnamed.
Fifteen whole-length figures grouped round a table in a room with
warm grey panelled walls ; in the middle of the background is a
chimney-piece, surmounted by a picture of a landscape with a man
fishing, on either side of which is a statuette ; to 1. a looking-
glass between two windows, and a bust on a low pedestal ; to r.
above, a dark green curtain. Dahl is seated on the 1., dressed in
black and holding a porte-crayon in his r. hand ; leaning on the
back of his chair is Hamilton, in blue ; the head of Laroon turned
three-quarters to r. is seen directly under the statuette to 1. ; next
to him stands Gibbons, wearing rust-red coat, his 1. hand thrust
into the breast, his r. pointing to a paper on the table ; Rysbrack
in buff, and Vanderbank in black, his r. hand resting on the table,
are seated next to one another in the middle of the picture ; Kent
stands in profile to 1. beneath the statuette to r. ; behind his back
1 A similar group of artists said to belong to the year 1735 and painted by this
same Hamilton is in the National Portrait Gallery. It includes, besides others,
portraits of Dahl, Rysbrack, Bridgman, Kent, and the painter.
188 PORTRAITS IN
is Bridgman in black, his head turned slightly to r. and looking
down ; all have clean-shaven faces ; Laroon and Kent dark hair,
the rest white periwigs. Canvas 23f x 28J in.
Nichols, Anecdotes of Hogarth,^*. 376, says that this picture represents
a Society of Artists about 1730 ; 1735 is a more probable date.1
Bequeathed to the University by Chambers Hall, 1855.
Engraved by Richard Sawyer.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1906, No. 83*.
455 BERNARD LENS Bernard Lem.
B. 1680 ; the third of the name who worked at the arts in London ;
painted fine miniatures in water-colours and made etchings.
Wrote also on the Art of Drawing ; d. 1740.
Half length, standing three-quarters to r.. the face turned towards
the spectator ; clean-shaven face ; brown night-cap ; grey coat open
showing shirt at throat ; his r. hand rests on his hip, his 1. holds
a miniature in a black frame ; miniature on desk, and painting
materials on table to r. ; green background ; inscribed with the
monogram signature of the artist, B. L., and the date 1724.
Water-colours on paper 5| x 4 in.
On the back is inscribed —
Bernard Lens Pictor
Painted by himself. Born 1682
Died Nov. y. 26, 1724
Painter in Miniature to his most
Sacred Majesty King George 1st & 2nd
Son of Bernard and Mary Lens
Painter in Oyle.
Bequeathed by the Rev. W. L. Bentinck Hawkins.
456 THOMAS FERMOR, EARL OF POMFRET, AND
HENRIETTA LOUISA JEFFREYS, COUNTESS
OF POMFRET Thomas Bardwell
THOMAS, EARL OF POMFRET, b. 1698 ; succeeded as second Baron Leo-
minster, 1711 ; created an Earl, 1721 ; Knight of the Order of
the Bath, 1725 ; Master of the Horse to Queen Caroline, 1727-37 ;
Ranger of St. James's and Hyde Parks, 1751 ; d. 1753.
HENRIETTA, COUNTESS OF POMFRET, b. 1703 ; daughter and heiress
of John, second Baron Jeffreys ; m. 1720, Thomas, Earl of Pom-
fret ; travelled in Italy and posed as a learned lady; after the death
1 After ThornhiU's death in 1734. Cf. Hogarth's letter on Academies, Nichols,
p. 25.
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of her husband, bought from her son the Arundelian statues,
which had been acquired by her father-in-law, and presented them
to the University, 1755 ; d. 1761.
Whole length figures ; Lord Pomfret on the r., standing nearly in
profile to 1. ; his head turned three-quarters towards the spectator ;
he is clean-shaven and wears white periwig falling down back ;
lace cravat and ruffles ; scarlet and ermine peer's robes, with collar
of the Order of the Bath, over cloth-of-gold coat ; his 1. hand
holds a fold of his robe, his r., holding a folded document, is ex-
tended towards the Countess, who stands on the 1., facing the
spectator, her head turned slightly to 1. ; she has dark hair dressed
with jewels, and wears low-necked red velvet gown and robes
lined with ermine over white satin petticoat laced with gold ; her
1. hand at her side, her r. extended to take the document from
Lord Pomfret ; warm grey background, green curtain to 1. ; in-
scribed with the names of the subjects and signature of the painter
T. BARDWELL F. Canvas 85 x 49 in. (arched top).
Given to the University by the Countess herself, 1759; from the
style of the frame may be presumed to have been brought from her
house in Arlington Street, the Gothic decorations of which were
famous in their day.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1906, No. 95*.
This picture was the subject in 1832 of an application by the fourth
Lord Pomfret, who desired to have * given up to him the picture of
certain of his ancestors \ The Hebdomadal Board replied that
it had been given to the University by Lady Pomfret herself and
could not be relinquished.
457 THOMAS FERMOR, EARL OF POMFRET
Bust, in white marble, the head turned slightly to 1. ; short curling
hair ; clean-shaven face ; classical drapery round shoulders.
458 HENRIETTA LOUISA, COUNTESS OF POMFRET
Bust, in white marble, the head turned three-quarters to r. ; hair
curled in front and tied with ribbon in coil on the top of the
head ; classical drapery round shoulders.
459 CHARLES FITZROY, SECOND DUKE
OF GRAFTON „. T „ ,,
Str J. Reynolds.
B. 1680; succeeded, 1690; Lord Chamberlain to George II;
KG. 1721 ; d. 1757.
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Whole length, standing facing the spectator, the head turned three-
quarters to r. ; white wig falling to shoulders ; clean-shaven
face ; lace cravat ; robes and collar of the Order of the Garter ;
blue velvet mantle, crimson velvet surcoat lined with ermine, and
red sash over cloth-of-silver dress ; his r. hand extended holds
white wand, his 1. on his hip ; architectural and curtain back-
ground, sky through opening to r., beneath which is a crimson-
covered table upon which rests plumed hat. Canvas 93 x 57 in.
Painted in 1755.
Presented to the Bodleian Gallery by Mr. R. H. Beaumont, of
Whitley Hall, Lanes., 1805.1
460 DAVID GARRICK
Pompeo Battoni.
B. 1717; a pupil of Dr. Johnson and came to London with
him, 1737 ; made his first appearance on the stage at Ipswich,
1741 ; became famous in Richard III, 1741 ; travelled in France
and Italy, 1763-4; d. 1779.
Half length, three-quarters to 1. ; grey wig ; clean-shaven face ;
lace cravat and ruffles ; greyish-purple velvet coat and waistcoat ;
his r. hand holds a volume of Terence, open at a page showing
illustrations of the masks for the Andria, on a table to 1. ; dark
background ; inscribed with the name of the subject and GIVEN AT
ROME, 1764. Canvas £8J x 24 in.
Formerly in the Bodleian Gallery, where it first appears in the
Catalogue of 1840.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1906, No. 98*.
461 EDWARD AUGUSTUS, DUKE OF YORK
Gaetano Manini.
B. 1739 ; son of Frederick Prince of Wales, and brother of King
George III; K.G. 1752; d. 1767.
Bust, three-quarters to r. ; youthful clean-shaven face ; powdered
hair tied with black ribbon ; white neckcloth ; lace cravat ;
crimson velvet robe with Star of the Order of the Garter, and
crimson coat embroidered with gold ; ribbon of the Garter across
breast; brown shaded background. Enamel on gold, oval
1 Cf. Bodl. MSS. Add. A. 64, fol. 122, where the identity is stated. Mr. Beau-
mont had recently become possessed of the picture in 1804, ibid, 232.
THE ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM 191
On the back is the monogram of the painter G.M.F., the date
1755, and the letters P.F.P.D.G.D. 44.
Bequeathed to the University by the Rev. W. L. Bentinck Hawkins,
1894.
462 CAPTAIN PHILEMON P. POWNALL, R.N.
Sir Joshua Reynolds.
B. 1730 (?) ; entered the Navy and served under Admiral Boscawen ;
d. in action, 1780.
Whole length, standing with legs crossed facing the spectator;
dark hair; clean-shaven face; blue coat laced with gold over
white waistcoat and breeches also laced with gold; white
stockings ; black shoes ; his r. hand on his hip, his 1. hand and
elbow rest on the fluke of an anchor ; sea and sky background ;
Canvas 18| x 13 in.
Sketch for the life-size picture painted 1762-69, believed to be
still in the possession of the descendants of the subject.
Presented to the University by Mr. Chambers Hall, 1855.
463 JEAN FRANCOIS PILATRE DE ROZIER
AND PIERRE ROMAIN
School of Henri van Blarenberghe.
The former, b. 1756 ; Professor of Chemistry at Rheims ;
Director of the ' Musee de Monsieur ' ; made the first free ascent
in a Montgolfier balloon, 1783 ; took ladies of fashion for airings
in a captive one ; attempted to cross the channel with Pierre
Remain, a physicist, who had helped in the construction of their
balloon, when both perished, 1785.
Two oval bust portraits grouped together and surrounded by
bays tied with a ribbon inscribed with the names of the subjects
and the date, 1784. Pilatre de Rozier, in profile to r., has clean-
shaven face and wears white wig tied with red ribbon, and a
grey coat open over white frilled shirt; Pierre Romain is in
profile to 1. ; he has a clean-shaven face and wears white wig tied
with mauve ribbon ; white neckcloth and rust-red coat ; both
heads are against grey backgrounds. Water-colours on parch-
ment ; circular, diam. If in.
The miniature is enclosed in a shagreen case with another represent-
ing the ascent of a Montgolfier balloon from the seashore, which
is crowded with spectators.
Bequeathed to the University by the Rev. W. L. Bentinck Hawkins,
1894.
192 PORTRAITS IN
464 JAMES PAINE AND HIS SON JAMES
Sir Joshua Reynolds.
B. 1725 ; architect to the King; designed and published plans of
mansions in various counties of England ; designed Magdalen
Bridge ; President of the Society of Artists of Great Britain ;
d. 1789. His son, also James and an architect, travelled in
Italy ; d. 1829.
Two half-length figures, the father seated three-quarters to r. before
a table, looking at the spectator, the son standing three-quarters
to r. behind him ; the father has dark hair, clean-shaven face,
and wears a grey frieze overcoat over blue coat showing white
shirt at throat and wrists ; both hands, his r. holding a pair of
green spectacles, rest upon some architectural drawings lying
before him ; also upon the table, which is covered by a turkey
carpet, are gloves and a cane ; the son has fair hair and youthful
face ; he is dressed in a white satin Vandyck habit ; his r. hand
rests on the back of his father's chair, his 1. on the drawings on
the table; architectural and curtain background, stormy sky
through opening to r. ; to 1. is a shelf containing books and
documents, one of which with the Great Seal attached is inscribed
ROYAL CHARTER INCORPORATING THE SOCIETY OF ARTISTS OF GREAT
BRITAIN. Canvas 49 x 39 in.
Bequeathed to the University by James Paine, jun., and received
in 1834.
Formerly in the Bodleian Gallery.
Painted in 1764 and engraved the same year by J. Watson.
465 FRANCIS RANDOLPH
B. 1714 (?) ; educated at University College ; Fellow of Corpus
Christi College; M.A. 1737; D.D. 1763; Principal of St. Alban
Hall, 1759.; bequeathed a sum to open a fund for building the Fine
Art Galleries of the University ; d. 1797.
Three-quarters length, seated three-quarters to 1. ; white bushy
wig; clean-shaven aged face ; white bands ; scarlet and black
D.D. robes ; his r. hand rests on a book l)flhg on a table to 1. ;
his 1. on the arm of his chair ; dark background ; inscribed with
the name of the subject and the date 1794. Canvas 39£ x 33 \ in.
Given to the University by the Rev. Edward Cardwell, D.D., in
1847.
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No. 4(14. JA.MKS PAIXK AND HIS Sox
THE ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM 193
466 JOSEPH WARTON
Sir Joshua Reynolds.
B. 1722; educated at Oriel College; B.A. 1744; D.D. 1768;
Prebendary of St. Paul's, 1788, of Winchester, 1788 ; head master
of Winchester, 1766-93 ; d. 1800.
Half length, slightly to 1. ; white bushy wig ; clean-shaven face ;
bands ; black gown and cassock ; his r. hand held before him ;
grey background. Canvas 29 x 24J in.
Bequeathed to the University by the Rev. Thomas Penrose, 1851.
Engraved by J. R. Smith, 1777.
Exhibition of National Portraits, 1867, No. 592 ; Oxford Exhibition
of Historical Portraits, 1906, No. 143*.
467 SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON
William H. Craft.
B. 1730; Plenipotentiary at Naples, 1764-1800; K.B. 1772;
F.R.S. ; made archaeological collections and wrote on the action
of volcanoes; D.C.L. 1802; d. 1803.
Bust, almost in profile to r., clean-shaven face ; white wig tied
in a long pigtail with black ribbon ; white neck-cloth ; pink
waistcoat ; blue coat with brass buttons ; grey background.
Enamel on copper, oval, 6f x 5f in.
back
Inscribed on the back with the name of the subject and signature
of the artist, w. H. CRAFT FECT.
A very similar portrait is in the British Museum.
Bequeathed to the University by the Rev. W. L. Bentinck Hawkins,
1894.
468 CHARLES BURNEY
Sir Joshua Reynolds.
B. 1726; pupil of Dr. Arne, 1744-7; D.Mus., Oxford, 1769;
Organist of Chelsea Hospital, 1783 ; published 1773 an account
of his travels on the Continent undertaken to collect materials for
his History of Music, which appeared 1776-89 ; d. 1814.
Half length, facing the spectator, the head turned slightly to 1. ;
white wig ; clean-shaven face ; lace cravat and ruffles ; bands ;
white and scarlet D.Mus. robes over black clothes ; his r. hand,
raised as if conducting, holds a roll of music ; warm grey back-
ground. Canvas 29 \ x 24| in.
Painted in 1781.
Given to the Music School by the subject, before 1795, and trans-
ferred here in 1909.
890 P
194 PORTRAITS IN
A similar picture, painted for the famous series in Mr. Thrale's
library at Streatham, and exhibited at the Royal Academy,
1781, was in the possession of the late Archdeacon Burney ; the
payment of £35 for this picture occurs in the painter's accounts
for that year.
Engraved by F. Bartolozzi, 1784.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits 1906, No. 170*.
469 JAMES DOUGLAS
B. 1753 ; after serving in the Austrian army, entered Peterhouse,
Cambridge ; F.S. A. 1780 ; Chaplain to the Prince of Wales ;
painted, and wrote on antiquarian subjects ; d. 1819.
Bust, three-quarters to r. ; white powdered wig ; white cravat ;
black coat ; dark background. Canvas 29£ x 22£ in.
Probably given with the collection of Anglo-Saxon antiquities
excavated by Dr. Douglas, by Sir Richard Colt Hoare in 1825.
470 KING GEORGE III
Gaetano Manini.
B. 1738 ; ascended the throne, 1760 ; d. 1820.
Bust, three-quarters to 1. ; youthful clean-shaven face ; powdered
hair tied with black ribbon; white neckcloth; lace cravat;
crimson velvet robe and crimson coat embroidered with gold ;
ribbon of the Order of the Garter across and star on breast ;
brown shaded background. Enamel on gold, oval, 1-^ x 1-^ in.
Fellow to the miniature of Edward Duke of York, evidently
executed by the same artist at the same time (1755).
Bequeathed to the University by the Rev. W. L. Bentinck Hawkins,
1894.
471 CHARLES FERDINAND, DUG DE BERRY
Jean Baptiste Jacques Augustin.
B. 1778 ; s. of Charles X of France and Caroline of the Two
Sicilies ; murdered 1824.
Bust, slightly to 1., looking at the spectator ; fair brown hair and
slight side-whiskers ; black uniform coat with scarlet collar ;
silver epaulettes ; star of the Order of St. Esprit and crosses of
three Orders on breast ; background of sky and clouds ; inscribed
with the signature of the painter AUGUSTIN and the date 1814.
Water-colours on ivory, oval, 3f x 3 in.
Bequeathed to the University by the Rev. W. L. Bentinck Hawkins,
1894.
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472 THE SAME
Jean Baptiste Jacques Augustin.
Similar to the last, but with plain grey background ; signed and
dated 1820. Water-colours on ivory, oval, 3f x 3 in.
Bequeathed to the University by the Rev. W. L. Bentinck Hawkins,
1894.
473 RICHARD PARKES BONINGTON
A. Colin.
JB. 1801 ; studied painting in France and exhibited first in Paris,
1822; came to England, 1825, and exhibited at the Royal
Academy, 1827 ; d. 1828.
Bust, very slightly to r. ; curling hair parted on his r. side ; clean-
shaven face ; white shirt, collar, and neckcloth ; coat with large
roll collar ; beneath are the signatures of the subject and the
artist. Pencil-drawing on white paper, 8J x 7 in.
Given to the University by Mr. T. W. Jackson, 1896.
474 SIR WALTER SCOTT, BARONET
Colvin Smith,
B. 1771 ; published translations of German ballads, 1799, The
Lay of the Last Minstrel, 1805, Waverky, 1814, Castle Dan-
gerous, 1832 ; created a Baronet, 1820 ; d. 1832.
Bust, facing the spectator, the head turned slightly to r. ; white
hair and slight whiskers ; white collar ; black stock ; black dress ;
dark background. Canvas 29 x 24J in.
Scott, in his diary, mentions giving sittings between February,
1828, and June, 1830, to Colvin Smith, who painted about
twenty portraits of him. The present picture was executed
for Edward Copleston, Bishop of Llandaff (d. 1849).
Given to the University by the Rev. J. Treherne, 1854.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1906, No. 185.
475 THE SAME
Sir F. Chantrey.
Bust, in profile to 1. ; clean-shaven face ; coat with high roll collar ;
inscribed SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART, 19 APRIL 1820 F. CHANTREY.
Pencil-drawing on white paper, oval, 9 x 7 in.
Given to the University by Mr. Henry Willett ; d. 1906.
p 2
196 PORTRAITS IN
476 AUGUSTUS FREDERICK, DUKE OF
SUSSEX
Samuel John Stump.
B. 1773 ; sixth son of George III ; K.G. 1786 ; created Duke of
Sussex, 1801; d. 1843.
Bust, three-quarters to 1. ; fair hair, parted in the middle, and side-
whiskers ; white shirt-collar, neck-cloth and frilled shirt ; black
coat with roll collar ; Star of the Order of the Garter on breast ;
brown shaded background ; dated 1804 and signed : s. j. STUMP,
PINXIT. Water-colours on ivory, 4J x 3 J in.
Bequeathed to the University by the Rev. W. L. Bentinck Hawkins,
1894.
477 JOHN SHUTE DUNCAN
Thomas Kirkby.
B. 1769 (?); educated at New College; Fellow, 1791; Keeper of
the Ashmolean Museum, 1823-6; Barrister-at-law ; D.C.L.
1830 ; d. 1844.
Bust, three-quarters to r., looking at spectator ; grey hair, and
slight side- whiskers ; white shirt, collar, neck-cloth, and waist-
coat ; black coat with roll collar, and M.A. gown ; brown shaded
background. Canvas 16 X 21 in.
Engraved by Thomas Lupton.
478 DAVID CHARLES READ
Richard Cockle Lucas.
B. 1790 ; a drawing- master at Salisbury ; produced some landscape
etchings, and painted also in oil ; d. 1851.
Plaster bust ; curly hair ; clean-shaven face ; eyes incised ; coat
and waistcoat over bare neck ; inscribed at the back : D. c. READ.
Given to the University Galleries by the subject.
479 SAMUEL WOODBURN
William Behnes.
B. 1786 ; the head of a firm of picture dealers, who had remark-
able critical and artistic gifts ; he bought largely for Sir Thomas
Lawrence and, when his collection was dispersed, exerted himself
to promote the purchase of a portion of the drawings by the Old
Masters for the University ; d. 1855.
Bust, in white marble, the head turned three-quarters to 1. ; curling
XXIX
No. 47.(\ SAMUEL U
No. 481. CHAMBERS HALL
No 713. BENJAMIN WOODWARD
THE ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM 197
hair parted on his 1. side ; clean-shaven face ; classical drapery
round shoulders ; inscribed w. BEHNES, SCULP. LONDON 1832.
Bequeathed to the University by Miss Woodburn, 1865.
Exhibited in the Royal Academy, 1863.
480 CHAMBERS HALL
John Linnell.
B. 1786; of Elmfjeld Lodge, Southampton, and Bury Street, St.
James's ; connoisseur and collector ; benefactor to the British
Museum and to the University Galleries ; d. 1855.
Bust, facing the spectator, the head turned three-quarters to I. ;
grey curling hair and side-whiskers ; white shirt-collar ; black
stock ; black coat with roll collar, and waistcoat open over white
shirt at breast ; clouded background ; inscribed with the name
of the subject. Drawing in crayons on paper ; oval 21 £ x 17|.
Given to the University by the subject, 1855.
481 THE SAME
Richard Cockle Lucas (?)
Medallion, relief in white wax ; bust in profile to 1. ; curling hair
and whiskers; stock and shirt-collar; coat with roll collar.
Diameter 5 in.
Probably given by the subject, 1855.
482 ROBERT HENRY HERBERT, EARL
OF PEMBROKE _. D „, 4
Sir R. Westmacott.
B. 1791 ; succeeded as 12th Earl, 1827 ; d. 1862.
Bust, plaster; crown of head bald, with fringe of hair; side-
whiskers ; eyes incised ; no drapery ; signed WESTMACOTT.
One of the two busts given to the University by Sir R. West-
macott, R.A., in 1851.
483 PHILIP BURY DUNCAN
W. Smith.
B. 1772 ; educated at New College ; Fellow, 1792 ; Keeper of the
Ashmolean Museum, 1826 to 1855 ; D.C.L. 1855 ; d. 1863.
Bust, three-quarters to r., looking at spectator ; grey hair and
slight side-whiskers ; white shirt-collar and neck-cloth ; black
satin waistcoat ; black coat with roll collar and M.A. gown ;
dark grey background. Canvas 16 x 21 in.
A similar picture is at New College.
Lithographed by Gauci.
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484 HENRY WELLESLEY
Alexander Munro.
B. 1791; Student of Christ Church, 1811; M.A. 1818; D.D.
1847 ; Principal of New Inn Hall, 1847 ; d. 1866.
Medallion, relief in white marble ; head only, in profile to 1. ; bald
forehead ; slight side-whiskers ; inscribed with the monogram of
the artist A. M. interlaced. Circular, diameter 21J in.
The frame is inscribed HANC IMAGINEM SOCIETAS OXON. ARTIBUS
COLENDIS DEDITA FAC. CUR. A.S. 1856.
Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1856.
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485 % HENRY PHILLPOTTS
Andrew Robertson*
B. 1778 ; educated at Corpus Christi College ; M.A. 1798 ; Bishop
of Exeter, 1830 ; wrote political pamphlets ; known in connexion
with the Gorham case ; d. 1869.
Bust, three-quarters to r. ; dark brown hair and side-whiskers ;
white shirt-collar, neck-cloth and bands ; black gown over black
cassock ; green background ; signed with monogram A. R. and
dated 1841. Water-colours on ivory, 4| x 3 in.
Bequeathed to the University by the Rev. W. L. Bentinck Hawkins,
1894.
Perhaps the portrait exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1842.
486 THOMAS COMBE
W. Holman Hunt.
B. 1797 ; in 1837 became connected with the Clarendon Press,
which prospered greatly under his management ; a friend and
helper of the painters of the Pre-Raphaelite school ; benefactor
to the Radcliffe Infirmary, and the parish of St. Barnabas;
d. 1872.
Bust, three-quarters to 1., looking at the spectator ; flowing white
hair and beard ; dark coat ; signed with monogram and dated
i860, OXFORD. Red and black chalk on white paper, 27f X 18| in.
Bequeathed by Mrs. Combe, 1893.
Reproduced in Holman Hunt's Pre-Raphaelitism, ii. 182.
487 THE SAME
Sir John Everett Millais.
Small three-quarters length figure, seated slightly to 1. in an arm-
chair, looking at the spectator ; white whiskers and- waving hair ;
XXX
No. 487. THOMAS COMBK
No. 494. J. E. MILLAIS
Xo 500. AV. HOL.MA.V HINT
199
THE ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM 199
cream-coloured waistcoat open over white shirt; black tie
knotted in bow, coat and trousers ; both hands touch a tabby cat
which lies asleep in his lap ; dark green background, coat of
arms above to 1. ; signed with monogram and dated 1850.
Panel, 12| x 10£ in.
According to Mr. J. G. Millais (Life and Letters of Sir John
Everett Millais, 1905, p. 43) this portrait was painted while the
artist was staying with Mr. Combe at the Clarendon Press in
1849. It was first publicly exhibited at the Millais Exhibition
in the Grosvenor Gallery, 1886.
Bequeathed by Mrs. Combe, 1893.
488 THE SAME
Thomas Woolner.
Bust, marble ; flowing hair and beard ; drapery round shoulders ;
inscribed with the name of the subject, and the date, 1863, and
signed T. WOOLNER sc. LONDON.
Bequeathed by Mrs. Combe, 1893.
Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1864.
489 CHARLES ALLSTON COLLINS
Sir John Everett Millais.
B. 18^84 exhibited in the Royal Academy between 1847 and
1855 ; worked under the influence of the Pre-Raphaelite move-
ment ; a writer of essays and novels ; d. 1873.
Bust, slightly to L, looking at spectator ; youthful face ; smooth
hair parted on his 1. side ; coat and waistcoat open at breast over
white shirt ; dark tie knotted in bow ; signed and dated JOHN E.
MILLAIS, P.R.B., 1850. Black lead on white paper, 6^ X 5 in.
Purchased at Mrs. Combe's sale, 1894.
Reproduced in Holman Hunt's Pre-Raphaelitism.
490 PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST
Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
B. 1828 ; studied at the Royal Academy, 1846 ; worked with the
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood ; exhibited first in 1849 ; published
poems from 1861-81 ; d. 1882.
Bust, three-quarters to r., looking at the spectator ; hair parted on
his 1. side ; moustache and peaked beard ; costume roughly in-
dicated. Slight sketch in charcoal on white paper, 6J x 5 in.
Purchased at Ford Madox Brown's sale, and given to the Univer-
sity by Mr. T. W. Jackson, 1896.
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491 MRS. MARTHA HOWELL BENNETT
COMBE 117 rr 7 U
W. Holman Hunt.
B. 1806 (?) ; married to Thomas Combe ; lived till her death within
the precincts of the Clarendon Press ; a benefactor to Keble
College and the University, to which she bequeathed the Combe
Collection ; d. 1893.
Bust, three-quarters to r. ; smooth hair parted in the middle ; cap
of lace and ribbons ; dark dress ; signed with monogram and
dated 1861. Red and black chalk on white paper, 27 x 18£ in.
Given to the University by the artist in 1895.
492 JOHN OBADIAH WESTWOOD
Sir Hubert von HerJcomer.
B. 1805 ; Hope Professor of Zoology, 1861 ; Honorary Fellow
of Magdalen College, 1880 ; an eminent palaeographer and
entomologist ; d. 1893.
Three-quarters length, seated three-quarters to 1. ; white hair and
flowing beard ; upper lip shaven ; white collar and cuffs ; black
M. A. gown over black dress ; pink rose in buttonhole of coat ;
both hands, his r. holding a magnifying lens, his 1. an insect in
a little saucer, before him ; dark brown background ; inscribed
with the signature of the painter H. H. and the date '90.
Canvas 43 x 33 in.
Given to the University by the painter, 1891.1
493 SIR CHARLES THOMAS NEWTON
Waldo W. Story.
B. 1816; Student of Christ Church; M.A. 1840; entered the
Department of Antiquities at the British Museum, 1840 ; held
consular appointments at Mytilene 1852 and Rhodes 1853,
Rome 1860 ; excavated at Calymnos and Halicarnassus ; Keeper
of Classical Antiquities, British Museum, 1861 ; D.C.L. 1875,
K.C.B. 1877 ; d. 1894.
Marble relief, bust in profile to r. ; thick hair, moustache and
beard ; coat ; collar and large tie in a loose bow ; inscribed
SIR C. T. NEWTON K.C.B. AET. LXXI and signed WALDO STORY, ROME
1888. 23Jxl7m.
Presented to the Ashmolean Museum by Mrs. Henry Furneaux,
sister-in-law of the subject, in 1895.
1 This and Nos. 503, 507, and 508 were painted before his class, each in
six hour sittings, in the course of the first six years that Sir Hubert held the
Slade Professorship, 1885-91.
THE ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM 201
494 SIR JOHN EVERETT MILLAIS
Charles Allston Collins.
B. 1829 ; a student at the Royal Academy 1840 ; exhibited there
from 1846 to 1896 ; D.C.L. 1880 ; created a baronet 1885 ; P.R. A.
1896 ; d. 1896.
Bust, slightly to r., looking at the spectator ; youthful face ; waving
hair parted on his r. ; dark coat and waistcoat open at the breast
over white shirt ; dark tie knotted in bow ; signed and dated
c. COLLINS, P.R.B. 1850. Black lead and bistre wash on white
paper, 6£ x 5 in.
Purchased at Mrs. Combe's sale, 1894.
495 THE SAME
Alexander Munro.
Medallion relief in plaster ; head only, in profile to 1. ; clean-shaven
youthful face ; curling hair parted on his 1. side ; inscribed with
the monogram of the artist A M interlaced and ALEX MUNRO sc ;
oval medallion enclosed in a rectangular panel 22J x 18 in.
Probably the portrait exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1854.
496 HENRY GEORGE LIDDELL
Sir Hubert von Herkomer.
B. 1811 ; Student of Christ Church, 1830 ; M. A. 1833 ; D.D. 1855;
head master of Westminster School, 1846 ; published the Greek
Lexicon with Dean Scott, 1855 ; Dean of Christ Church, 1855-
92; for many years a Curator of the University Galleries;
d. 1898.
Three-quarters length, seated three-quarters to r. ; bald head with
fringe of white hair ; clean-shaven face ; white collar and cuffs ;
black dress ; his r. hand holds square cap in his lap, his 1. rests
on the arm of his chair ; brown background ; inscribed with the
signature of the painter H. H. and the date '91. Canvas
55x43 in.
Exhibited in the Royal Academy, 1891.
Given to the University by the painter, 1891.
497 CHARLES DRURY EDWARD FORTNUM
Charles Alexander.
B. 1820 ; F.S.A. 1858 ; D.C.L. 1889 ; generous benefactor to the
University ; his gifts including the endowment of the present
202 PORTRAITS IN
Ashmolean Museum, and his own splendid collections chiefly
illustrative of the fine art of the Renaissance ; d. 1899.
Half length, seated slightly to r. ; white curling hair parted on his
1. side ; moustache and long side-whiskers ; white collar and
cuffs ; scarlet D.C.L. robes over black coat and waistcoat ; gold
watch-chain and seal ; both hands, his r. holding spectacles, rest
on the arms of his chair ; dark background ; signed CHARLES
ALEXANDER and dated 1893. Canvas 34 x 28 in.
Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1893.
Bequeathed, with the three following, by the subject in 1899.
498 THE SAME
Jules Jacquemart.
Half length, seated in a green arm-chair, looking at spectator ; grey
curling hair parted on his 1. side; white moustache and long
side-whiskers ; white collar and cuffs ; blue necktie, black jacket
and waistcoat ; both hands clasped together in his lap ; light
background ; coat of arms above to 1. ; signed j. j. and dated
7 MAR. 1878. Water-colours on paper, 10 J x 8 in.
499 THE SAME
Cirilotti.
Cameo cut in shell ; head only, in profile to 1. ; curling hair parted
on his 1. side ; moustache and side-whiskers. Oval, 2 x If in.
500 THE SAME
Charles Alexander.
Half length, represented as seated facing the spectator, the head
turned three-quarters to r., in his library at the Hill House,
Stanmore ; white hair parted on his 1. side ; moustache and
long side-whiskers ; gold spectacles ; white collar and cuffs ;
blue necktie ; grey suit ; his r. hand holding magnifying-glass
rests on his knee, his 1., holding a piece of china he is studying,
rests on the arm of his chair ; various works of art on table to r.,
a picture on a chair, bronzes in glass cases behind to 1. ; signed
CHARLES ALEXANDER. Panel 14| x 21£ in.
501 JOHN RUSKIN
Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
B. 1819 ; entered Christ Church, 1836 ; published Modem Painters,
1843 ; Slade Professor of Fine Art, 1870-S4 ; D.C.L. 1893 ;
d. 1900.
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202
THE ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM 203
Bust, slightly to r., looking at the spectator ; flowing hair parted on
his r. side ; side-whiskers ; shirt-collar ; stock tied in bow ; coat
open over shirt at breast; shaded background; inscribed with
the monogram of the artist and the date 1861. Drawing in red
chalk of two shades on white paper, 18J x 13 in.
Given to the University by Mr. Malcolm McLean, 1891.
502 THE SAME
Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm.
Bust, in white marble ; the head turned slightly to 1. ; flowing hair
parted on his r. side ; side- whiskers ; shirt-collar and stock tied
in bow; coat with deep collar, showing waistcoat; signed
J. E. BOEHM FECIT ; inscribed on the base with the name of the
subject ; on the pedestal is an inscription commemorating the
gift of the bust to the Ruskin School of Drawing by some of
Ruskin's friends, 1881.
A bust in terra-cotta was exhibited in the Royal Academy in 1880.
503 SIR HENRY WENTWORTH ACLAND
Sir Hubert von Herkomer.
B. 1815 ; educated at Christ Church ; Fellow of All Souls, 1840 ;
M.D. 1848 ; Regius Professor of Medicine, 1858 ; d. 1900.
Three-quarters length, seated facing and looking at the spectator ;
bald head with fringe of grey hair ; clean-shaven face ; scarlet
D.M. robes over black coat ; both hands (unfinished) rest on
his knees ; dark background ; inscribed with the signature of the
painter H. H. and the date '88. Canvas 43 x 33 in.
Given to the University by the painter, 1891.
504 FRANQOIS, PRINCE DE JOINVILLE
Rudolphe Bel.
B. 1818 ; 3rd son of King Louis Philippe of France and Marie
Amelie ; d. 1900.
Half length, as a little boy, standing slightly to 1., looking at the
spectator ; dark hair ; deep white collar with gauffred edge ; black
coat and trousers with brass buttons ; his r. arm extended, his 1.
at his side; clouded sky background; inscribed with the signature
of the artist RUDOLPHE BEL and the date 182 ... Miniature in
water-colours on paper, oval, 5-£§ x 3f in.
Bequeathed by the Rev. W. L. Bentinck Hawkins, 1894.
204 PORTRAITS IN
505 THE PRINCESS CLEMENTINE OF ORLEANS
Rudolphe Bel
B. 1817 ; daughter of King Louis Philippe; m. in 1843 to Augustus,
Duke of Saxe-Coburg Gotha; d. 1907.
Bust, as a little child, turned slightly to right, the eyes looking
at the spectator ; fair curling hair ; white low-necked frock with
blue sash ; a white scarf is round the figure and floats in the air
above the head ; background and foreground of clouded sky ;
inscribed with the signature of the painter RUDOLPHE BEL.
Water-colours on paper, oval, 5^ x 3f in.
Bequeathed to the University by the Rev. W. L. Bentinck
Hawkins, 1894.
506 WILLIAM HOLMAN HUNT
Sir John Everett Millais.
B. 1827 ; one of the three Founders of the Pre-Raphaelite move-
ment ; began to exhibit 1846 ; D.C.L. 1905, O.M. ; d. 1910.
Bust, three-quarters to 1. ; long smooth hair parted on his 1. side,
whiskers, and moustache ; striped tie ; the rest of the dress
slightly indicated; signed with monogram and dated 1854.
Black lead with touches of water-colour on white paper, 9 x 7 in.
Bequeathed by Mrs. Combe, 1893.
507 ALEXANDER MACDONALD
Sir Hubert von Herkomer.
B. 1839 ; appointed Ruskin Master of Drawing by Ruskin, 1872 ;
Keeper of the University Galleries, 1890-1908.
Three-quarters length, seated almost in profile to 1. ; dark hair,
moustache and beard ; black M.A. gown over black dress ; white
collar ; hands unfinished ; dark grey background ; inscribed with
the signature of the painter H. H. and the date '88. Canvas
43 x 33 in.
Given to the University by the painter, 1891.
508 HENRY GEORGE WOODS
Sir Hubert von Herkomer.
B. 1842 ; educated at Corpus Christi College ; Fellow of Trinity,
1865; President, 1887-97; Master of the Temple, 1904; for
many years a Visitor of the University Galleries.
No. 509. SIR ARTHUR EVAXS
THE ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM 205
Three-quarters length, seated slightly to 1., the head turned to face
the spectator ; fair hair, moustache and beard ; black M.A.
gown over black dress ; white collar and tie ; both hands hold-
ing square cap lie in his lap ; dark brown background ; inscribed
with the signature of the painter H. H. and the date '90. Canvas
43 x 33 in.
Given to the University by the painter, 1891.
509 SIR ARTHUR JOHN EVANS
Sir William Blake Richmond.
B. 1851 ; Fellow of Brasenose ; D. Litt., F.R.S., F.S. A., Keeper of
the Ashmolean, 1884-1908, then Hon. Keeper, and Extraor-
dinary Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology ; began to excavate
in Crete, 1893 ; knighted, 1911 ; munificent Benefactor to the
University.
Three-quarters length, three-quarters to 1. ; represented as standing
in the ruins of the palace at Knossos ; iron-grey hair and mous-
tache ; white trousers, and jacket open in front over cream-
coloured shirt ; red sash ; pink rose in buttonhole of coat ; both
hands hold inscribed clay tablet before him ; on a ledge in the
foreground are a fragment of a bas-relief, a columnar lamp-stand,
and other antiquities found at Knossos ; on the wall in the back-
ground to r. is the ' Cupbearer fresco ', landscape with olive-yard
and distant mountains through opening to 1. Canvas 49 X 35J in.
Exhibited in the Royal Academy, 1907.
Presented to the University by an International Body of Subscribers,
1907.
510 QUEEN WILHELMINA OF THE
NETHERLANDS
George Frederick Zink.
B. 1880, daughter of William III and Emma of Waldeck Pyrmont ;
succeeded to the throne, 1890 ; m. Henry, Duke of Mecklenburg,
1901.
Bust, as a little child, facing the spectator ; fair hair cut in a
straight line across the forehead ; pearl necklace ; white lace
frock with sky-blue ribbons on shoulders; light greenish-grey
background ; inscribed with the signature of the artist G. F. ZINK
and the date 1884. Water-colours on ivory, oval, 3| x 2| in.
Bequeathed to the University by the Rev. W. L. Bentinck Hawkins,
1894.
206
MASKS
511 WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
B. 1770; Poet Laureate; d. 1850.
Plaster cast taken from the living face, 1815.
Given to the University by Miss Elizabeth Wordsworth in 1905.
512 OLIVER CROMWELL
B. 1599; d. 1658.
Death mask, plaster cast said to be taken from the cast in wax at
Warwick Castle. Not entered in the early catalogues, but prob-
ably from the Tradescant or Ashmole collection. It has the
appearance of being an early work, and may perhaps be the
original from the piece-mould made from the first impression of
the face taken after death. It is the only one known which shows
the plugging of the nostrils. Copies are in the possession of
Mr. T. Cromwell Bush, Mr. J. B. Oldham, Mr. H. L. Tangye,
and Mrs. T. Woolner.1
The following portraits mentioned in P. B. Duncan's catalogue of
the Museum published in 1836 are now no longer in existence.
John, King of France, on panel, 11 x 8 in.
King Edward IV, on panel, 10 x 7 in.
Cardinal Wolsey, on panel, 12 x 11 in. ; given by Dr. Bliss.
James VI of Scotland as a child.
Oliver Cromwell.
Cardinal Richelieu.
In a catalogue of 1799 occur also portraits of Queen Anne,
Queen Anne of Denmark, Lewis XI of France, Henry IV of
France, on copper, and Dr. Bathurst, the last the gift of
Dr. Thomas Warton. A few other pictures entered unnamed in
the Catalogue of Dr. Plot cannot even be quite definitely
counted.
1 I owe this information to Mr. J. D. Milner.
207
LIST OF THE ORIGINAL MODELS OF
BUSTS AND STATUES
BY SIR FRANCIS CHANTREY
PRESENTED TO THE UNIVERSITY BY HIS WIDOW IN 1842.
In alphabetical order. The figures in brackets correspond to the numbers
affixed to the Busts and Statues in the Museum.
Two previous lists exist. The earlier, of statues only, was drawn up by Joseph
Fisher, Keeper of the Galleries, in 1850. The other, to be found in a little book,
Life and Work of Sir Francis Chantrey, by Mr. A. J. Raymond, 1904, does not
discriminate between busts and statues. Both these lists are incomplete and
inaccurate, and no attempt has been made at all to identify the names generally
given on the pedestals of the models in the briefest possible form. In this
catalogue when a certain identification has been arrived at through comparison
with other portraits or through records, — as for example in the case of a bust
labelled *Mr. Tomkins' — the actual inscription is not copied. When doubt
remains, as in the case of 531 and 576, the name is given first in inverted commas
as it appears on the model. Drawings made by Chantrey for some of these busts
are preserved in the Reference Library of the National Portrait Gallery.
t indicates when this is the case.
513 ABERCORN, JAMES HAMILTON, ? 1st Marquess of, 1756-1818.
Bust. (1)
514 ABERNETHY, DR. JOHN, 1764-1831. Bust. (2)
The marble is at the Royal College of Surgeons. It was
ordered in 1833.
515 QUEEN ADELAIDE, 1792-1849.
Medallion in relief, stone. (3)
Given to the University by Miss Jones.
516 ANDERSON, DR. JAMES, Physician-General to the East India
Company at Madras ; d. 1809. Bust. (4)
517 ANDERSON, DR. JAMES. Statue? sitting figure. (5)
Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1819 as posthumous,
and to be erected in Madras.
518 ANGLESEY, HENRY WILLIAM PAGET, 1st Marquess of, 1768-
1854. Bust. (6)
Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1816.
1 George Jones, R.A., Recollections of Chantrey ', 297. *
208 MODELS OF BUSTS AND STATUES
519 BABINGTON, STEPHEN, Judge in the Bombay Civil Service;
President of a Committee to revise the fi Regulations ' ;
d. 1822. Statue, seated figure -, holding a book. (7)
Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1827, and erected in
Bombay.
520 BANKS, SIR JOSEPH, Bart., 1743-1820. Bust. (8)
Busts were exhibited in the Royal Academy in 1816 and
1818. A marble bust is at the Royal Society.
521 BANKS, SIR JOSEPH. Statue, sitting figure. (9)
For the British Museum, 1818. The marble is now in the
Natural History Museum at South Kensington.
522 BARRINGTON, SHUTE, Bishop of Durham, 1734-1826.
}Bust. (10)
523 BARRINGTON, SHUTE, Bishop.
Statue, kneeling figure against a wall. (11)
Erected in marble, Durham Cathedral.
524 BATHURST, COLONEL SEYMOUR THOMAS, 1795-1834.
Bust. (12)
525 BATHURST, HENRY, Bishop of Norwich, 1744-1837.
Statue, seated figure. (13)
Exhibited at the Royal Academy as a posthumous portrait
in 1841. Erected in Norwich Cathedral.
526 BIRD, EDWARD, R.A., 1772-1819. Bust. (14)
Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1817. A plaster copy is
in the National Portrait Gallery.
527 BLIZARD, SIR WILLIAM, Surgeon, 1743-1835. Bust. (15)
Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1816. The marble is at
the Royal College of Surgeons. It was ordered in 1816.
528 BOULTON, MARY ANNE, wife of Matthew Robinson Boulton,
1795-1829. Statue, semi-recumbent figure. (16)
The marble, signed and dated CHANTREY sc. 1834, is in the
church of Great Tew, Oxon.1
529 BRADFORD, MARY ANN LADY, wife of Lieut.-General Sir
Thomas Bradford, K.C.B. ; d. at sea 1830.
Statue, recumbent figure. (17)
The marble, signed and dated 1834, is in the chancel of
Hartburn 2 Church, Northumberland, where Lady Bradford
is buried.
1 Mrs. Boulton was buried in Handsworth Parish Church.
2 In both lists mentioned above this monument is said to be in Storrington
Church, Sussex, where it has been searched for in vain.
BY SIR FRANCIS CHANTREY 209
530 BURDETT, SIR FRANCIS, Bart., M.P., 1770-1844. Bust. (18)
Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1811.
531 ' MR. JUSTICE BURTON,' ? CHARLES BURTON, Justice of the
King's Bench, 1820. }Bust. (19)
532 CAMDEN, JOHN J. PRATT, 1st Marquess, 1759-1840.
^Bust. (20)
The drawing for this bust is dated 1830.
533 CANNING, GEORGE, 1770-1827. ^Bust. (21)
Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1819.
The marble is in the National Portrait Gallery.
534 CANNING, GEORGE. Statue, standing figure. (22)
Exhibited in marble at the Royal Academy, 1832. Executed
by subscriptions in Liverpool, to be erected in the Town
Hall there.
535 CANNING, GEORGE. Statue, standing figure. (23)
Erected in bronze, Westminster New Palace Yard.
536 CASTLEREAGH, ROBERT STEWART, Viscount, 1769-1822.
•fBust. (24)
Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1821.
The marble is in the National Portrait Gallery.
537 CAVE, HON. ROBERT OTWAY, of Stamford Hall, Leicester,
M.P. ; d. 1844. Bust. (25)
538 CLARKE, SIR CHARLES MANSFIELD, Bart., M.D., 1782-1857.
The drawing is dated 1833. -fBust. (26)
The marble was exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1840.
539 CLINE, DR. HENRY, 1750-1827. }Bust. (27)
Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1813. The marble is at
the Royal College of Surgeons ; ordered in 1827.
540 CODRINGTON, ADMIRAL SlR EDWARD, 1770-1851. Bust. (28)
Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1819.
541 COLEBROOKE, HENRY THOMAS, Sanskrit scholar ; President of
the Court of Appeal at Calcutta, 1765-1837. jBust. (29)
542 COUTTS, THOMAS, founder of the bank, 1735-1822.
Statue, seated figure. (30)
543 COWPER, HENRY, Clerk of the House of Lords, 1758-1840.
•fBust. (31)
544 CURRAN, JOHN PHILPOT, Master of the Rolls in Ireland,
1750-1817. Bunt. (32)
Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1812.
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210 MODELS OF BUSTS AND STATUES
545 CURTIS, SIB WILLIAM, Bart., Lord Mayor of London, 1752-
1829. ^Bust. (33)
Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1828.
546 DALTON, JOHN, D.C.L., chemist, 1766-1844. }Bust. (34)
547 DALTON, JOHN. ^ Statue, seated figure. (35)
Exhibited in marble at the Royal Academy, 1837 ; for Man-
chester. The drawings are dated 1834.
548 DIGBY, CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH, daughter of Colonel and Lady
Lucy Digby, m. in 1803 the Rev. William Digby ; Maid
of Honour to Queen Charlotte ; 1778-1820.
Statue, semi-recumbent figure. (36)
Erected in marble in Worcester Cathedral in 1825.
549 DOWNE, WILLIAM HENRY DAWNAY, ? 7th Viscount, 1812-54.
Statue, standing figure. (37)
550 DUCKWORTH, ADMIRAL SIR JOHN THOMAS, Bart., 1748-1817.
Bust. (38)
Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1811.
551 DUNDAS, ROBERT, of Arniston, the third of the name, Lord
Chief Baron of the Exchequer of Scotland, 1801, 1758-
1819. -fBust. (39)
Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1817.
552 DUNDAS, ROBERT, of Arniston. Statue, seated figure. (40)
Erected in Edinburgh.
553 DUNDAS, probably Thomas, 1st Baron Dundas of Aske,
1741-1820 (father of the 1st Earl of Zetland).
Bust. (41)
554 DUNLOP, JAMES, of Russell Square, London, 1769 (?)-Nov. 29,
1841. -\Bust. (42)
Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1841. The drawing is
dated 1836.
Chantrey was paid ^1 50 for this portrait.1
555 EAST, SIR EDWARD HYDE, Bart., Chief Justice of Calcutta,
1764-1847. Statue, seated figure. (43)
Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1829; to be erected in
the Court House, Calcutta.
556 ' EGERTON,' 2 ? CHARLES CHANDLER, Surgeon to the Calcutta
Hospital, 1798-1885. Bust. (44)
1 Recollections, 269.
2 ' Egerton, Esq.', is all that appears in the early lists.
BY SIR FRANCIS CHANTREY
557 EGREMONT, GEORGE O'BRIEN WYNDHAM, 3rd Earl of, con-
noisseur and friend of artists, 1751-1837. Bust. (45)
558 ELPHINSTONE, MOUNTSTUART, Governor of Bombay, 1779-
1859. Bust. (46)
559 ELPHINSTONE, MOUNTSTUART. Statue, standing figure. (47)
Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1833 ; for Bombay.
560 ENGLEFIELD, SIR HENRY CHARLES, F.S.A., F.R.S., antiquary,
1752-1822. Bust. (48)
561 FARNBOROUGH, SIR CHARLES LONG, Lord, b. 1760 ; raised to
the peerage, 1826 ; d. 1838. Bust. (49)
562 FORBES, SIR CHARLES, Bart., head of the first mercantile
house in Bombay, 1774-1849.
•f Statue, standing figure. (50)
Exhibited in marble at the Royal Academy in 1842, com-
missioned by the native merchants of Bombay. A drawing
of the head only is dated 1839.
563 FULLER, JOHN, M.P., ?of Rosehill, Sussex; M.P. for the
county, 1801-7 ; d. ? 1839. f Bust. (51)
Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1820.
564 KING GEORGE III, 1738-1820. Statue, standing figure. (52)
The marble was erected in the Guildhall in 1812.
565 KING GEORGE IV, 1762-1830. -fBust. (53)
Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1822.
566 KING GEORGE IV. Colossal statue, standing figure. (54)
Erected in marble in Windsor Castle.
567 GILLESPIE, GENERAL SIR ROBERT ROLLO, 1766-1814.
Statue, standing figure. (55)
Erected in marble in St. Paul's Cathedral, 1813.
568 GRATTAN, HENRY, Irish statesman, 1746-1820.
Statue, standing figure. (56)
Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1826, for a bronze to be
erected in Dublin.
569 HALFORD, SIR HENRY, Bart., M.D., 1766-1844. Bust. (57)
The marble is at the Royal College of Physicians, acquired
1825.
570 HAMOND, SIR ANDREW SNAPE, Bart., Controller of the Navy ;
1738-1828. Bust. (58)
Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1821.
571 HARCOURT, REV. WILLIAM VERNON, F.R.S., 1789-1871.
Bust. (59)
Q 2
212 MODELS OF BUSTS AND STATUES
572 HATCHETT, CHARLES, F.R.S., chemist, 1765 (?)-1847.
^Bust. (60)
The drawing is dated 1820.
573 HEBER, REGINALD, Bishop of Calcutta, 1783-1826.
Bust. (61)
574 HEBER, BisHOP.1 Statue, larger than life, kneeling. (62)
Erected in marble in Calcutta.
575 HEBER, BISHOP.
Statue, seated figure blessing two Hindoos kneeling before
him. (63)
Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1830. Erected in marble
in St. Paul's Cathedral.
576 * DR. HENRY.' ? DR. JAMES HENRY, physician in Dublin,
1798-1876. Bust. (64)
577 « COLONEL HERRIES.' Bust. (65)
Perhaps William Lewis Herries, Lieut.-Colonel, and a comp-
troller of Army accounts, who was knighted in 1826.
578 HERTFORD, FRANCIS SEYMOUR-CONWAY, 2nd Marquess of,
1743-1822. Bust. (66)
579 HERTFORD, FRANCIS SEYMOUR-CONWAY, 2nd Marquess of.
Statue, semi-recumbent figure in bed. (67)
580 HEY, WILLIAM, « of Leeds.' ? a surgeon at Leeds, 1736-1819,
but perhaps his son, also William Hey and a surgeon,
1772-1844. Statue, seated figure. (68)
581 HOBHOUSE, SIR BENJAMIN, Bart., M.P., 1757-1831.
^Bust. (69)
Exhibited at the Royal Academy as late President of the
West of England Society for the Promotion of Agricul-
ture, ' to be placed in their room at Bath,' 1819.
582 HOME, SIR EVERARD, Bart., surgeon, 1756-1832. -fBust. (70)
Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1816. The marble is at
the Royal College of Surgeons ; it was ordered in 1816.
583 HORNER, FRANCIS, M.P., 1778-1817. Bwt. (71)
Exhibited at the Royal Academy as a posthumous portrait,
1818.
584 HORNER, FRANCIS. Statue, standing figure. (72)
Erected in Westminster Abbey, 1820.
1 Probably this is the statue to make which a picture was borrowed from
Oxford. See Recollections of Chantrey, p. 199, where New College is no doubt an
error for All Souls.
BY SIR FRANCIS CHANTREY
585 HOWLEY, WILLIAM, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1766-1848.
Bust. (73)
586 HUME, DAVID, Baron of the Scottish Exchequer, 1757-1838.
Bust. (74)
587 HUNTER, JOHN. The great Anatomist, 1728-1793.
Bust. (75)
Made for the Royal College of Surgeons in 1820.
588 INGLIS, SIR HUGH, Bart., Director of the East India Company ;
of Milton Bryant, Beds. ; created a baronet, 1801 ;
d. 1820. Statue* Jigure lying on a couch, dead. (76)
589 IRELAND, JOHN, Dean of Westminster, 1761-1842.
Bust. (77)
The marble was presented to the University, Nov. 8, 1831,
the Dean describing it as the bust on which Chantrey's
' talents have been exerted with so much success'.1 No. 296.
590 JACKSON, CYRIL, Dean of Christ Church, 1746-1819.
Statue, seated Jtgure, based upon Owen's portrait.2 (78)
For Christ Church, erected by subscription among members
of the House. Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1824.
591 JOHNES, THOMAS, of Hafod, Cardiganshire, M.P., F.R.S.,
1748-1816. Bust.3 (79)
Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1812.
592 ' EDWARD JOHNSTONE.' 4
Perhaps the Edinburgh physician of the name, who was the
first Principal of Queen's College, Birmingham ; 1757-1851.
Bust. (80)
Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1819.
593 JORDAN, DOROTHY BLAND, the actress, called Mrs. Jordan,
1762-1816. Statue, smaller than life, with two children. (81)
Executed in commemoration of ' her kindness and maternal
affection ', by order of William IV.5
594 KING, WALTER, Bishop of Rochester, 1755 (?)-1827.
Bwt. (82)
Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1821 ; placed in Roches-
ter Cathedral.
1 Minutes of the Hebdomadal Board. 2 Recollections, 107.
3 Called Miss Johnes in Mr. Raymond's list. A monument by Chantrey to
Mary daughter of Thomas Johnes made in 1812 is erected in a church near the
Devil's Bridge.
* Called Miss Johnson in Mr. Raymond's list.
6 Recollections, 119.
214 MODELS OF BUSTS AND STATUES
595 LIVERPOOL, THEODOSIA LOUISA, Countess of, daughter of the
4th Earl of Bristol, and 1st wife (m. 1795) of the 2nd Earl
of Liverpool, the Prime Minister ; d. 1821.
Statue, seated figure. (83)
Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1824 ; no doubt erected
in Buxted Church, Sussex,
596 'MACKENZIE.^ Bust. (84)
597 MALCOLM, SIR JOHN, Governor of Bombay, 1769-1833.
^Bust. (85)
598 MALCOLM, SIR JOHN. Statue, standing figure. (86)
Exhibited in marble at the Royal Academy, 1837 ; for West-
minster Abbey.
599 MEADOWBANK, ALEXANDER MACONOCHIE, 2nd Lord, Lord
of Session; 1777-1861. Bust. (87)
600 MELBOURNE, WILLIAM LAMB, 2nd Viscount, Prime Minister,
1779-1848. * }Bust. (88)
The drawing is dated 1838.
601 MELVILLE, HENRY DUNDAS, 1st Viscount ; statesman, 1742-
1811. Bust. (89)
602 MILL, REV. DR. WILLIAM H., the first Principal of Bishop's
College, Calcutta ; Regius Professor of Hebrew at Cam-
bridge; 1792-1853. }Bust. (90)
Exhibited in marble at the Royal Academy in 1840 ; for the
Asiatic Society, Calcutta.
603 MORRISON, JAMES, M.P., merchant and politician, 1790-
1857. ^Bust. (91)
Exhibited in marble at the Royal Academy, 1842.
604 MUDGE, REV. ZACHARY, Vicar of St. Andrew's, Plymouth;
1694-1769. Posthumous bust. (92)
Based on Sir Joshua Reynolds' portrait 1 ; for St. Andrew's
Church.
605 ' MlSS MUNDY.'
Perhaps Laura Mundy, who died in 1842, or Emily who died
in 1839, both daughters of Francis Mundy of Markeaton,
Derby. Bust. (93)
606 MUNRO, SIR THOMAS, Bart., Governor of Madras, 1761-
1827. Bust. (94)
A bust in marble was exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1840,
from which the head of a colossal statue was made for
Madras.
1 Recollections, 107.
BY SIR FRANCIS CHANTREY 215
607 « W. MURDOCH, ' ^Bust. (95)
So spelt on the bust, but probably William Murdock, 1754-
1839, who worked with Boulton and Watt as a practical
engineer and invented coal-gas lighting.
608 NEELD, JOSEPH, of Grittleton House, Wilts., M.P. for Chip-
penham from 1831 to 1856. ^Bust. (96)
Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1841.
609 NELSON, ADMIRAL HORATIO, 1st Viscount, 1758-1805.
Colossal bust. (97)
Erected in the Trinity House, 1809.
610 NICHOLL, SIR JOHN, Dean of Arches, 1759-1838. -fBust. (98)
611 NOLLEKENS, JOSEPH, R.A., sculptor, 1737-1823.
Bust. (99)
Busts were exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1817 and 1818.
612 NORTHCOTE, JAMES, R.A., painter, 1746-1831. Bust. (100)
Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1812.
613 NORTHCOTE, JAMES. Statue, seated figure. (101)
Commissioned by the will of the subject.1
Exhibited in marble at the Royal Academy, 1840, and
erected in Exeter Cathedral.
614 'LADY NUGENT.'
Perhaps Anne Lucy, daughter of General Vere Poulett, and
wife of George, 1st Baron Nugent, who succeeded to the
title 1812; 1790-1848. ^Bust. (102)
Exhibited at the British Academy, 1820.
615 PACK, GENERAL SIR DENIS, 1772 (?)-1823. Bust. (103)
616 ' MR. PERKINS, a brewer.'
Perhaps Henry Perkins, a partner in the firm of Barclay,
Perkins, & Co., Brewers ; book collector ; 1778-1855.
Bust. (104)
617 PHILLIPS, THOMAS, R.A., portrait painter, 1770-1845.
Bust. (105)
Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1821.
618 PITT, WILLIAM, 1759-1806. Bust. (106)
619 PITT, WILLIAM. Statue, standing figure. (107)
For the bronze in Hanover Square, London.2
620 PLAYFAIR, JOHN, Professor of Natural Philosophy at Edin-
burgh, F.R.S. ; 1748-1819. Bust. (108)
Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1814.
1 Recollections, 134. a Ibid, 87.
MODELS OF BUSTS AND STATUES
621 PORSON, RICHARD, Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge,
1759-1808. Bust. (109)
Erected in Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge.
622 RAFFLES, SIR THOMAS STAMFORD, Lieutenant-Governor of
Java, 1781-1826. Statue, standing figure. (110)
The marble was erected in Westminster Abbey.
623 RENNIE, JOHN, engineer, 1761-1821. -\Bust. (Ill)
Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1818.
The marble is in the National Portrait Gallery.
624 ROSCOE, WILLIAM, M.P., of Liverpool, 1st President of the
Liverpool Royal Institution, 1753-1831.
Statue, seatedjigure. (112)
Exhibited in marble at the Royal Academy, 1840, now at
Liverpool.
625 RUSSELL, SIR HENRY, Bart., Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court in Bengal, 1751-1836. Bust. (113)
Modelled in 1822 for friends in India.1
626 RUSSELL, LADY LOUISA JANE, daughter of the 6th Duke of
Bedford, married in 1832 the 2nd Marquess of Abercorn,
1812-1905.
•\Small statue as a child claspmg a bird to her breast. (114)
Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1818,2 and erected in
marble at Woburn.
627 RYDER, HENRY, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, 1777-
1836. Statue, kneeling figure. (115)
Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1841, as a posthumous
portrait, for Lichfield Cathedral.
628 SAXE- WEIMAR, PRINCESS LOUISA WILHELMA ADELAIDE OF,
daughter of Charles Bernard of Saxe- Weimar and Princess
Ida of Saxe-Meiningen, b. at Ghent 1817 ; d. at Windsor
Castle, 1832 Bust. (116)
Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1833.
629 SCOTT, SIR WALTER, 1771-1832. Bust. (117)
Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1821.
The marble is now in the National Portrait Gallery.
Scott sat to Chantrey in 1820, when the marble was presented
by the sculptor to Abbotsford, and a duplicate given to
the Duke of Wellington. In 1828, Scott sat again, and
1 Recollections, 275.
a The description as the * late Lady Louisa ' in the Catalogue appears to be
an error.
BY SIR FRANCIS CHANTREY
Chantrey gave the marble to Sir Robert Peel for Drayton
Manor.1
630 SCOTT, JoHN,2 engraver, 1774-1827. Bust. (118)
631 SHARP, GRANVILLE, philanthropist, 1735-1813. Bust. (119)
632 SHARP, WILLIAM, engraver, 1749-1824. Bust. (120)
Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1813, as a member of the
Academy of Vienna.
633 SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL, painter and engraver, 1752-1812.
Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1811. Bust. (121)
634 SOANE, SIR JOHN, R.A., founder of the Soane Museum,
1753-1837. -fBust. (122)
Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1830. The marble is in
the Soane Museum.
635 SOMERVILLE, MRS. MARY, scientific writer, 1780-1872.
The drawing is dated 1832. ^Bust. (123)
Exhibited in marble at the Royal Academy, 1837 ; for the
Royal Society.
636 SOUTHEY, ROBERT, Poet Laureate, 1774-1843. Bust. (124)
Exhibited in marble at the Royal Academy, 1837.
637 SPENCER, GEORGE JOHN, 2nd Earl, 1758-1834. -\Bust. (125)
Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1819.
638 STANHOPE, LADY FREDERICA, daughter of the Earl of Mans-
field, (m. 1820) the Hon. James, son of the 4th Earl
Stanhope; 1800-23.
Statue, recumbent figure with a child. (126)
Erected in marble in Chieveley Church, Berks.
639 STOTHARD, THOMAS, R.A., painter and engraver, 1755-1834.
Bust. (127)
Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1812.
640 STRUTT, JOSEPH, mayor, and benefactor to Derby, 1765-1844.
Bust. (128)
641 STUART, WILLIAM, Archbishop of Armagh, 1755-1822.
Bust. (129)
642 ST. VINCENT, JOHN JERVIS, Earl, Admiral, 1735-1823.
Bust. (130)
Busts were exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1809 and
1816.
1 Recollections, 254 seq.
2 This identity is suggested by a comparison with a print of Jackson's portrait
of John Scott. The bust is inscribed, « Scott, Esq.'
218 MODELS OF BUSTS AND STATUES
643 ST. VINCENT, Countess. Martha, daughter of Sir Thomas
Parker, wife of Admiral the Earl St. Vincent, d. 1816.
Statue, kneeling figure. (131)
Erected in Caverswall Church, Staffordshire.
644 SUSSEX, AUGUSTUS FREDERICK, Duke of, 6th son of George III,
1773-1843.1 Bust. (132)
Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1832.
645 SUTHERLAND, GEORGE GRANVILLE LEVESON-GOWER, 2nd Duke
of, b. 1786, succeeded 1833 ; d. 1861. Bust. (133)
646 SUTTON, CHARLES MANNERS, Archbishop of Canterbury,
1755-1828. jBust. (134)
647 TAYLOR, GEORGE WATSON, of Erlestoke Park, Wilts., M.P.
for Devizes ; d. 1841. Bust. (135)
Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1820.
648 TIERNEY, SIR MATTHEW, Bart., Physician to George IV and
William IV, 1776-1845. Bust. (136)
649 TOMKINS, THOMAS, the author of the Beauties of Writing,
who kept a writing-school in London ; 1743-1816.2
Bust. (137)
Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1816.
650 TOOKE, JOHN HORNE, 1736-1812.3 \Bust. (138)
Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1811.
651 VERNON, Mrs.
Probably Jessie Anne Letitia, daughter of J. H. Foley,
and wife of Thomas Taylor Vernon of Hanbury Hall,
who d. 1835 ; she m. secondly Thomas Chalmers, M.P.,
and died 1840. She had two sons by her first marriage.
Mural statue, with two children. (139)
Composed for a monument to Mr. Vernon of Hanbury Hall,
near Droitwich.
652 QUEEN VICTORIA, 1819-1901. ^Bwt. (140)
Exhibited in marble at the Royal Academy, 1840.
653 'MR. WARP, merchant'. Bust. (141)
654 WASHINGTON, GEORGE, 1732-1799.
Statue, standing figure. (142)
Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1826 ; to be erected in
Boston, Massachusetts.
1 Recollections, 204.
2 Sir Joshua Reynolds painted a portrait of Tomkins, as also did George
Engleheart. It is an engraving of the latter that has decided this identification.
3 Recollections, 8, 280.
BY SIR FRANCIS CHANTREY 219
655 WATT, JAMES, engineer, 1736-1819. Bust. (143)
Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1815.
656 WATT, JAMES. Statue, sitting figure. (144)
Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1824; for Handsworth
Church, near Birmingham.
657 WATTS, DAVID PIKE, a successful manufacturer, 1754 (?)-
1816, with his daughter, and heiress, Mrs. Maria Watts
Russell, 1792-1840, and her children.
Statues, semi-recumbent figure on a couch, the daughter with
three children kneeling" beside him. (145)
Erected by Mrs. Watts Russell in Ham Church, Staffordshire.
Signed and dated F. CHANTREY sc: 1826.
658 WELLINGTON, ARTHUR WELLESLEY, Duke of, 1769-1852.
•\Bust. (146)
659 WELLINGTON, Duke Si'. Colossal bust. (147)
Modelled in 1814.
660 WEST, BENJAMIN, P.R.A., subject and portrait painter, 1738-
1820. Bust. (148)
Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1818.
The marble is in the National Portrait Gallery.
661 WESTMINSTER, ROBERT GROSVENOR, 1st Marquess of, 1767-
1845. Bust. (149)
662 KING WILLIAM IV, 1765-1837. jBust. (150)
A bust was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1831.
663 WILSON, HORACE HAYMAN, Professor of Sanskrit in the
University of Oxford, 1786-1860. ^Bust. (151)
Exhibited in marble at the Royal Academy, 1837.
664 WOLLASTON, WILLIAM HYDE, M.D., F.R.S., man of science,
benefactor to the Royal Society 1766-1828. }Bust. (152)
665 WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM, Poet Laureate, 1770-1850.
^Bust. (153)
Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1821.
666 WYATVILLE, SIR JEFFRY, R.A., architect, 1766-1840.
jBmt. (154)
Exhibited in marble at the Royal Academy, 1837 ; now at
Windsor.
667 YORK, FREDERICA CHARLOTTE, daughter of King Frederick
William II of Prussia, and wife of Frederick, Duke of
York, 2nd son of George III ; 1767-1820.
Statue, in mural relief, kneeling figure. (155)
220
IV
PORTRAITS IN THE TAYLOR
INSTITUTION
668 SIR ROBERT TAYLOR
B. 1714 ; Architect of the Bank of England and other buildings ;
Sheriff of London and knighted, 1783 ; Founder of the Taylor
Institution ; d. 1788.
Three-quarters length, seated facing the^ spectator, the head turned
almost in profile to r. ; white wig tied in a bag ; clean-shaven face ;
white stock and frilled shirt ; red coat over cream silk waistcoat;
his r. hand holds a scroll ; dark background. Canvas 48 x 38^ in.
Given to the University by the Rev. John Vane in 1835.1
669 THOMAS FINCH2
Joseph Nollekens.
B. 1756 (?) ; the son of Robert Poole Finch ; educated at St. John's
College ; Fellow ; M. A. 1781 ; barrister of the Inner Temple ;
F.R.S. ; the father of Robert Finch, donor of the Finch collec-
tion ; d. 1810.
Bust, marble, the head turned to r. ; hair short and curly ; clean-
shaven face ; nose very aquiline ; eyes incised ; no drapery ;
signed and dated NOLLEKENS FT. 1812.
This and the two following portraits passed into the possession
of the University with the Finch bequest, made by the
Rev. Robert Finch in 1830 ; they were placed in the charge of
the Curators of the Taylor Institution.
670 ROBERT FINCH3
William Ewmg.
B. 1783; Scholar of Balliol College; Ordained, 1807; M.A.
1809 ; F.S.A. ; left England, 1814 ; lived abroad, chiefly in
1 Minutes, Hebdomadal Board.
2 1 take the identification from the Inventory of the Finch collection in the
Archives of the University, and suppose the bust to be posthumous.
3 See note to Thomas Finch.
XXXIII
No. 668. SIR 11. TAYLOR
220
THE TAYLOR INSTITUTION
Rome ; collected a library and works of art which he bequeathed
to the University of Oxford and to Balliol College ; grandson of
Robert Poole Finch whose portrait hangs in the Chest Office ;
d. 1830.
Bust, marble, facing the spectator ; crown of head bald ; short wavy
hair ; clean-shaven face with slight whiskers ; no drapery ;
Signed and dated EWING ROME 1826 ; probably the artist who is
described in Graves's Dictionary of Contributors to the Royal
Academy as a carver in ivory. He worked in Rome about the
date of this bust.
671 THE SAME(?)
Miniature, bust, facing the spectator, looking slightly to 1. ; fair
hair; clean-shaven face; white stock and frilled shirt; yellow
waistcoat ; black coat. Water-colour on ivory, 8x2^ in.
672 HENRY WELLESLEY
B. 1791 ; Student of Christ Church, 1811 ; M.A. 1818 ; D.D. 1847;
Principal of New Inn Hall, 1847 ; collector and antiquary ;
d. 1866.
Three-quarters length, seated to r., looking at the spectator ; bald
head with white hair at the sides and slight whisker ; collar and
fine transparent cambric bands ; black silk gown over red Con-
gregation habit and black clothes ; his r. hand holds cap on his
knee, his 1. rests on book lying with others on a table to r. Oil
painting, 10 x 8 in. (arched top).
Bequeathed by the subject.
PORTRAITS IN THE LIBRARY OF
THE BOTANIC GARDEN
673 ROBERT MORISON
William Sonmans.
B. 1620 ; educated at Aberdeen ; employed in the royal gardens
in France; returned to England at the Restoration; first
Professor of Botany at Oxford ; M.D. of University College,
1669 ; lectured in the open air in the middle of the Physic
Garden ; d. 1683.
Bust, facing the spectator, the head turned three-quarters to 1. ;
long grey hair falling to shoulders; clean-shaven face; wide
square bands ; scarlet M.D. gown over black clothes ; his r. hand
holds a partly unrolled paper ; dark brown background. Canvas
29£ x 24| in.
Inscribed on back « Rob* Morison M D e coll. Univ. Bot Prof 1669 ;
Geo. Williams M.D. regius & Sher. Bot. Prof. D. D. J. Griffiths
S.T.P. Coll. Univ. Magr. 1816', and on the frame at the back,
PAINTED BY ROBT WALKER, PORTRAIT PAINTER TO CROMWELL.
Engraved by R. White after the death of the subject, marked Sun-
mans pinx.
674 JACOB BOBART THE YOUNGER
B. 1641 ; succeeded his father as Keeper of the Physic Garden, 1680 ;
Professor of Botany, 1684 ; left his collections to the University ;
d. 1719.
Bust, three-quarters to 1. ; long brown hair ; clean-shaven face ; lace
cravat ; loose brown gown or drapery over brown clothes ; brown
background. Canvas, oval, 29 J X 23J in.
675 WILLIAM SHERARD (?)
B. 1659; Fellow of St. John's College, 1683; D.C.L. 1694;
travelled on the continent ; consul at Smyrna, 1702 ; returned to
London with considerable collections, 1717, which he bequeathed
to the Physic Garden ; endowed the Chair of Botany in the
University ; d. 1728.
THE BOTANIC GARDEN 223
Bust, three-quarters to r., grey wig; clean-shaven face ; long cravat ;
black gown (?) over dark clothes ; dark background ; painted in
an oval spandrel. Canvas 29£ x 24f in.
676 THOMAS FAIRCHILD1
A gardener of Hoxton who acquired botanical knowledge under the
influence of Sloane.and Sherard ; Founder of an annual lecture to
be delivered in Shoreditch Parish Church which is still given ;
a Liveryman of the Gardeners1 Company, and the author of
botanical pamphlets ; d. 1729.
Half length, seated three-quarters to r. ; thick white hair falling to
neck ; clean-shaven face ; cravat with long ends ; dark grey col-
larless coat and waistcoat ; his r. hand supports a large open
volume ; his 1. is raised to his cheek ; dark background. Canvas
29| x 24 £ in.
A label pasted at the back is inscribed ' Portrait of G. Fairchild of
Hoxton, botanist, by Van Blach ' (? Van Bleeck) given by Charles
Moore Esq., S. John's College.
In the Catalogue of the Ashmolean Museum, c. 1750, where the
painter's name is given Van Black.
Transferred from the Ashmolean Museum, 1897.
677 JOHN JAMES DILLENIUS
Copy by J. Smith.
B. 1687, at Darmstadt; came to England at the invitation of
Sherard, 1721 ; Professor of Botany at Oxford, 1734 ; M.D.
1735 ; a friend of Linnaeus ; d. 1747.
Half length, slightly to r. ; short grey curly wig ; clean-shaven
face ; square bands ; black gown over brown coat ; his r. hand
points to a coloured drawing of the flower Amaryllis Formosis-
sima ; dark background ; painted in an oval spandrel. Canvas
29 £ X 24£ in.
A copy from the Bodleian portrait (No. 247), inscribed on back,
J. SMITH PINXIT, OXFORD, 1836.
678 CARL VON LINN& (CAROLUS LINNAEUS)
M. Hallmann after A. Roslin.
B. 1707, at Roeshult in Sweden ; Professor at Upsala ; d. 1778.
Bust, slightly to r. ; grey wig with lock tied and hanging on his r.
shoulder; clean-shaven face; neck -band and frilled shirt; dull
1 Pulteney, Sketches of the Progress of Botany, ii. 236, and The Times, June 7,
i y 1 1 *
224 THE BOTANIC GARDEN
mulberry-coloured coat and waistcoat ; the cross of the Polar Star
hanging from a black ribbon on his 1. breast ; dark background ;
signed below in 1. corner, hidden by frame, M. HALLMANN 17 . . o.
Inscription on the back records name and titles and dignities of
subject.
Copy after the portrait painted by A. Roslin in 1775.1
679 JOHN SIBTHORP
B. 1758; Educated at Lincoln College; Fellow of University
College, M.A. 1780, M.D. 1784 ; succeeded his father in the
chair of Botany, 1784 ; travelled on the continent and in the
East ; foundation member of the Linnean Society ; F.R.S. ; a dis-
tinguished writer on botany ; benefactor to the Physic Garden ;
d. 1796.
Bust, nearly profile to r. ; powdered wig tied behind with black
ribbon ; clean-shaven face ; neckcloth, frilled shirt-front and
ruffles ; scarlet D.C.L. gown over black coat and white waistcoat \
his r. hand in breast of coat. Canvas 29£ x 24 \ in.
Inscribed on the back, < J. Smith & Sons 1850.'
680 WILLIAM GEORGE MATON
B. 1774; educated at Queen's College; M.A. 1797; M.D. 1801;
practised medicine and wrote on natural science and antiquarian
subjects ; d. 1835.
Bust, seated in profile to 1. ; short hair ; clean-shaven face ; stock
and cravat ; aouble-breasted, buttoned-up coat, with high collar.
Pencil on paper (inside mount) 9| X 6| in.
681 CHARLES GILES BRIDLE DAUBENY
Attributed to Thomas Phillips?
B. 1795; educated at Magdalen College ; Fellow ; M.D. and Professor
of Chemistry 1822, of Botany 1834, of Rural Economy 1840 ; did
much to promote the pursuit of Natural Science in Oxford ; d.
1867.
Bust, slightly to 1., the head turned slightly to r. ; fair hair,; slight
whiskers ; white collar and shirt ; black stock and tie ; black coat
with high collar ; greenish-grey background. Canvas 29| X 24£ in.
1 Cf. Tullberg's Linn^-Portratt.
8Bloxam's Register of Magdalen College, vii. 185.
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No. 683. Du. RADCLIFFE
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PORTRAITS BELONGING TO THE
RADCLIFFE TRUSTEES
IN THE RADCLIFFE CAMERA
682 JOHN RADCLIFFE
Sir Godfrey Kneller.
B. 1650 ; educated at University College ; Fellow of Lincoln College,
1669-77 ; M.D. 1682 ; F.R.S. 1687 ; physician to Queen Anne
and William III ; munificent benefactor to the University and
City and County ; d. 1714.
Three-quarters length, seated slightly to r., the head turned slightly
to 1. ; white periwig falling over shoulders ; clean-shaven face ;
white cravat ; grey velvet coat with gold buttons ; his r. hand
spread open on his breast, his 1., holding glove, rests on his hip ;
dark background, letter lying on table to 1. Canvas 52J x 47 in.
On the back is the following inscription, ' The only originall of Dr
John Radcliffe drawne 1712 by Sir Godfrey Kneller for Mr Geo.
Clarke who gave the Dr in Exchange his own picture done by Sir
Godfrey at the same time.' *
Engraved by G. Vertue, 1719, with the date of painting by Kneller,
1710, and the death of the subject, 1714.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1905, No.
683 THE SAME
John Michael Rysbrack.
Statue, marble, whole length, standing facing the spectator, the head
turned slightly to r. ; curled and parted wig to shoulders ; clean-
shaven face ; lace bands ; gown over coat and buttoned waiscoat ;
stockings and buckled shoes ; his r. hand holds out a roll of
parchment, his 1. draws his gown across him ; folds of drapery
with his cap are gathered in his 1. arm ; behind to r. is a tree-
trunk with foliage, round which a snake is coiled ; inscribed on the
pedestal, M. RYSBRACK.
1 Hearne, Collections, iv. 426. The portrait was considered ' extraordinarily
well- done '.
890 R
226 PORTRAITS IN
Rysbrack was appointed sculptor to the Camera building by the
Radcliffe Trustees, and this statue is thus mentioned by Gibbs :
' This is the Niche . . . where the Doctor's figure stands in his
Academic Habit, curiously done in marble by Mr Michael
Rysbrack a noted Sculptor.' l
684 ? UNKNOWN MAN2
John Michael Rysbrack.
Bust, terra-cotta, black ; long hair curling on to shoulders ; clean-
shaven rather heavy face ; incised eyes, bare throat ; loose drapery
over open coat, of which the edge stands up ; signed at the back,
MICHAEL RYSBRACK 1741.
685 JAMES GIBBS
John Michael Rysbrack.
B. 1682; studied architecture in Rome; came to England, 1710;
began to work in London, 1720; built the Radcliffe Library,
1737, and bequeathed his books to the University ; d. 1754.
Bust, marble, done in middle life; short hair; clean-shaven thin
face ; drapery round shoulders ; the foot is inscribed : JACOBUS
GIBBS A. M., R. s. s., HU.Tus AEDiFicn ARCHiTECTUs ; signed behind :
GIBBS ARCHITECT RYSBRACK SCULP. 1726.
The portrait was part of the original design of the building.3
686 THE SAME
Bust, marble ; aged face, rather fat ; crown of head bald ; lanky hair
to the neck behind, brushed backward ; clean-shaven face ; no
drapery ; foot inscribed GIBBS ARCHITECT : PRESENTED TO THE
UNIVERSITY BY T. C. BUCKNALL ESTCOURT, ESQ., D.C.L., M.P. A. D. 1845.
687 RICHARD FREWIN
Louis Francois Roubiliac.
B. 1677 (?) ; educated at Christ Church ; M.A. 1704 ; M.D. 1711 ;
Camden Professor of Ancient History, 1727 ; bequeathed his
house (Frewin Hall) for the Regius Professor of Medicine ; d. 1761.
1 Bibliotheca Radcliviana, by James Gibbs, 1747, 6 and 10.
2 A bust of Dr. Radcliffe and one of Purcell, recorded to have belonged to the
University collections, are now missing. But neither name seems to be appro-
priate to this head.
3 Bibliotheca Radcliviana, pi. xi.
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Bust, marble ; bald head ; close fringe of hair at the back and sides ;
incised eyes ; flabby hanging cheeks much lined ; loose drapery ;
inscribed under his r. shoulder RICHARD FREWIN AETAT 80, under
his 1. ROUBILIAC AD VIVUM MDCCLVII.
A duplicate is at Christ Church.
No doubt bequeathed with his books to the Radcliffe Trustees by
Dr. Frewin.
688 JOHN SHUTE DUNCAN
J. S. Devitte.
B. 1769 (?); Fellow of New College, 1791; Keeper of the Ashmolean
Museum, 1823-6 ; D.C.L. 1830 ; d. 1844.
Bust, plaster ; thick hair ; clean-shaven face ; eyes incised ; drapery
round shoulders ; signed at the back, j. DEVILLE FT. PUB. MARCH
1825.
Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1825.
IN THE RADCLIFFE OBSERVATORY
689 SIR HENRY SAVILE
B. 1549 ; Founder of the Savilian Professorships ; d. 1622.
Copy of the head from the whole length portrait by Marcus
Gheeraerts in the Bodleian Gallery. Chalk and pencil,
19xl3| in.
690 JOHN WALLIS
B. 1616 ; Savilian Professor of Geometry ; d. 1703.
Copy of the head from the whole-length portrait by Kneller in the
Bodleian Gallery. Chalk and pencil, 19 X 13| in.
691 STEPHEN CHARLES TRIBOUDET
DEMAINBRAY
B. 1710 ; educated at Westminster School and Leyden ; LL.D.,
Edinburgh ; Tutor to George III ; an electrician ; Astronomer at
the Royal Observatory, Kew, 1768 ; d. 1782.
Silhouette profile to 1. ; rough hair ; clean-shaven face ; neck-cloth ;
coat with high collar. Black paint on paper, 3| x 2J in.
R 2
228 PORTRAITS IN
Inscribed on back: <Dr Stephen Charles Triboudet Demainbray
Born Feb 20 1710, died Feb 20 1782. First observer of the
King's Observatory at Kew [given by] Gibbes Rigaud, Major
General 31. 10. 81.'
692 STEPHEN PETER RIGAUD
B. 1774; Fellow of Exeter College, 1794; M.A. 1799; F.R.S.
1805; Savilian Professor of Astronomy, 1827; d. 1839.
Silhouette, profile to 1. ; curly hair ; clean-shaven face ; white
collar and frilled shirt ; black coat with high collar. Black
paint on paper, 3f x 2| in.
Inscribed on the back : ' Stephen Peter Rigaud, grandson of Dr
Demainbray, Savilian Professor of Astronomy, and co-observer
with his uncle the Rev. S. Demainbray at Kew. Born August 12
1774, Died March 1839 [given by! Gibbes Rigaud, Maior Gen1
31. 10. 81.'
693 MANUEL JOHN JOHNSON
Copy after George Richmond.
B. 1805 ; Astronomer in charge of the Observatory at St. Helena,
1832 ; M.A. Magdalen Hall, 1842 ; Radcliffe Observer, 1839 ;
F.R.S. 1856; P.R.A.S. 1857; d. 1859.
Bust, facing the spectator, looking slightly to r. ; hair and slight
whiskers ; collar, black stock and dark coat. Chalk and pencil
drawing, 11 x 9 in.
A copy from the original (drawn c. 1850) in the possession of the
family, made by Major-General Rigaud and given by him to
the Observatory in 1881.
IN THE RADCLIFFE INFIRMARY
694 JOHN RADCLIFFE
B. 1650 ; physician to William III and Queen Anne ; Founder of
the Infirmary ; d. 1714.
Three-quarters length, seated to r. ; the head turned facing the
spectator ; long grey wig over shoulders ; clean-shaven face ;
THE RADCLIFFE INFIRMARY
white cravat and sleeve ruffles; brownish-grey velvet coat; his
r. hand spread on his breast, his elbow supported on a red table
to 1., on which is a paper inscribed THESE TO DR RADCLIFFE ; the
r., holding other papers, on hip. Canvas 50 x 37 in.
Another similar portrait, slightly varied, is in the Bodleian, No. 204,
The original by Kneller is in the Camera.
695 THOMAS ROWNEY THE YOUNGER
B. 1693 (?) ; lived in St. Giles's parish ; M.P. for the city 1722 to
1759 ; gave money for the building of the old Town Hall, 1752 ;
donor of the site of the Infirmary 1758 ; d. 1759.
Three-quarters length to r., the head turned facing the spectator ;
white wig over shoulders behind ; clean-shaven face ; cravat and
full shirt-sleeves ; brown coat ; his r. hand hangs down, the 1.
points to the inscription below to r. : THOMAS ROWNEY ESQ., DONOR
OF THE SITE OF THIS INFIRMARY. Dark background. Canvas
50 x 39 in.
696 UNKNOWN MAN
Bust to r., looking at the spectator ; grey wig to shoulders ; clean-
shaven face ; long cravat ; greenish-grey coat. Canvas 29 X 24£ in.
It has been suggested that this portrait represents Dr. Frewin ; it
has on the whole more resemblance to Dr. Mead.
697 GEORGE HENRY LEE, EARL OF
LICHFIELD
B. 1718 ; succeeded as fourth earl, 1743 ; Chancellor of the University,
1762, and D.C.L. ; founded by bequest the Lichfield clinical
Lectureship ; d. 1772.
Bust, to r. ; the head turned three-quarters towards the spectator ;
short dark hair in a queue ; clean-shaven face ; white neck-cloth
and shirt frill and sleeve ruffles ; dark blue coat embroidered in
gold, pale yellow waistcoat ; his 1. hand thrust into his waistcoat ;
inscribed THE EARL OF LITCHFIELD, FOUNDER OF THE CLINICAL PRO-
FESSORSHIP 1772.1 Canvas 29 x 24 in.
A whole length portrait is in the Examination Schools, No. 347.
1 Lord Lichfield was one of the Trustees of Dr. Radcliffe's will.
230 THE RADCLIFFE INFIRMARY
698 JOHN WINSTON SPENCER CHURCHILL,
DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH
Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm.
B. 1822 ; educated at Oriel College ; succeeded as eighth l Duke
1857 ; D.C.L. 1853 ; K.G. 1868 ; Lord Lieutenant of Ireland,
1876-80 ; benefactor to the Radcliffe Infirmary ; d. 1883.
Bust, marble, slightly to 1. ; curly hair ; whiskers and shaven chin ;
Garter robes with collar, badge and ribbon ; signed at the r. side
J. E. BOEHM FECIT.
The foot is inscribed : JOHN WINSTON CHURCHILL STH DUKE OF MARL-
BOROUGH K. G.
Presented to the Infirmary by the subscribers to the Marlborough
Memorial Fund in 1885.
1 Seventh or eighth duke according as the eldest daughter of the first duke is
counted in the succession or not.
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PORTRAITS IN THE UNIVERSITY
MUSEUM
699 THOMAS LINACRE(?)
B. 1460 (?) ; Fellow of All Souls College ; taught at Oxford, 1510 ;
Founder of the College of Physicians and lectureships at both
Universities ; d. 1524.
Modern copy of the picture so named at All Souls College.
Bust to r. ; black cap ; black clothes, white shirt ; paper in 1. hand.
Canvas 20J x 16J in.
(Room of the Regius Professor of Medicine.)
700 WILLIAM HARVEY
B. 1578 ; Educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge ;
the discoverer of the circulation of the blood ; Warden of Merton
College ; d. 1657.
Modern copy from a portrait at the Royal College of Physicians.
Bust to 1. ; grey hair, moustache and peaked beard ; falling
collar with tassels, and black clothes. Canvas 20J x 16£ in.
(Room of the Regius Professor of Medicine.)
701 THOMAS SYDENHAM
B. 1624 ; the famous physician ; d. 1689.
Modern copy of a portrait in the Royal College of Physicians and
at All Souls College; bust, white hair over shoulders, lace
cravat. Canvas 20J x 16J in.
(Room of the Regius Professor of Medicine.)
702 RENE ANTOINE F. DE REAUMUR
Jean Baptiste Lemoine.
B. 1683, at La Rochelle ; member of the Academic, 1708 ; a
distinguished zoologist and physicist ; invented the thermometer
called after him in 1730 ; d. 1757.
232 PORTRAITS IN
Bust, plaster, painted black ; wig in a queue ; clean-shaven aged
face ; cravat ; embroidered coat and waistcoat ; ribbon of an
order from the r. shoulder across breast ; inscribed MB DE REAUMUR
and signed j. B. LEMOINE. (Court, Gallery.)
703 CARL VON
B. 1707, at Roeshult in Sweden ; the great scientific discoverer ;
Professor at Upsala ; d. 1778.
Bust, to r., looking at the spectator ; grey wig ; clean-shaven
face ; neck-cloth ; purplish coat with large buttons ; dark back-
ground. Canvas 23 x 17 in.
Given to the Entomological Department by F. W. Hope.
(Laboratory of the Hope Professor.)
704 GEORGES C. LEOPOLD D. BARON CUVIER
Attributed to Louis Parfait Merlieux.
B. 1769, at Montbeliard ; Professor in the College de France, 1800 ;
made great collections for the study of comparative anatomy,
at the Jardin des Plantes ; created a baron 1819 ; d. 1832.
Bust, plaster, painted black ; short hair ; clean-shaven face ;
drapery over classic inner garment finely gathered into a narrow
square band about the neck.
Busts of Cuvier dated 1833, and Latreille 1835, both by Merlieux,
are said to be in the Museum at Valenciennes. (Court, Gallery.)
705 THE SAME
Pierre Jean David d? Angers.
Medallion, bronze, profile to r.; thick hair; clean-shaven face;
inscribed GEORGES CUVIER and signed P. j. DAVID 1832. 5| x 5f in.
On the back is written, « Presented by the Rev. Dr. Buckland 1834.'
(Room of the Professor of Geology.)
706 PIERRE ANDR£ LATREILLE
Louis Parfait Merlieux.
B. 1762, at Brives in France ; Professor of Entomology in the
Natural History Museum at Paris ; a distinguished zoologist ;
d. 1833.
Bust, plaster, painted black; short hair, slight whiskers; bare
neck ; signed P. MERLIEUX 1833. (Court, Gallery.)
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707 WILLIAM SMITH
Matthew Nobk.
B. 1769; geologist and collector; d. 1839.
Bust, marble, the head slightly to 1. ; head bald, slight whiskers ;
incised eyeballs ; drapery round shoulders ; signed M. NOBLE 1848.
(Court.)
A posthumous bust was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1848.
708 ALEXANDRE BRONGNIART
Philip Bury Duncan.
R in Paris 1770 ; mineralogist and geologist ; Professor in the
Museum of Natural History in Paris ; member of the Academy,
1815 ; author of a treatise on Les Arts Ceramiques ; visited
England in 1790 and 1836 ; d. 1847.
Miniature, bust, in profile to 1., hair brushed over forehead ; clean-
shaven face ; stock ; blue coat with high collar. Water-colour
and chalk on paper, 3^ x 2 in.
Inscribed M* BRONGNIART OXFORD MAY 21 1836 P. B. DUNCAN.
(Room of the Professor of Geology.)
709 JOHN KIDD
B. 1775; Student of Christ Church; M.D. 1804; Aldrichian
Reader in Chemistry, 1803; Lee's Reader in Anatomy, 1816;
Regius Professor of Medicine, 1822; d. 1851.
Bust, facing the spectator; dark hair and slight whiskers ; white stock
and tie ; dark coat. Pencil and chalk on paper, 15£ x 12J in.
On the back is pasted a letter, dated 1860, from Mrs. Fanny Kidd
to J. O. Westwood, giving the dates of Dr. Kidd's appointments.
(Laboratory of the Hope Professor.)
710 THE SAME
Another copy ; canvas 15 x 12 J in.
(Room of the Regius Professor of Medicine.)
711 WILLIAM BUCKLAND
After Thomas Clement Thompson.
B. 1784; educated at Corpus Christi College; Fellow, 1808;
Professor of Mineralogy, 1813 ; Reader in Geology, 1819 ; Canon
of Christ Church, 1R25 ; Dean of Westminster, 1845 ; d. 1856.
234 PORTRAITS IN
Half length, seated to 1., the head turned three-quarters towards
the spectator ; white hair ; clean-shaven face ; high collar and
white tie ; black gown over black clothes ; both hands hold a
large bone or horn ; signed below to r. AYERST HOOKER 1894 AFTER
T. c. THOMPSON R.H.A. 1845. Canvas 38 x 30 in.
The original portrait was exhibited at the Royal Academy in
1845. (Geological Tfoatre.)
712 THE SAME
Henry Weekes.
Bust, marble, the head turned slightly to 1. ; head a little bald,
slight whiskers; collar, stock, and white tie; double-breasted
coat ; Order of the Bath ; signed H. WEEKES sc. A.R.A. 1858.
Given to the University by friends and pupils of the subject.
Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1858. (Court.)
713 BENJAMIN WOODWARD
Alexander Munro.
B. 1815 ; architect ; built the Library of Trinity College, Dublin,
1853 ; the Oxford University Museum, 1855 ; a friend of the
Pre-Raphaelites ; d. 1861.
Medallion, marble, in high relief set in green serpentine, the head
almost facing the spectator ; long hair over ears, parted on the
side ; clean-shaven face ; collar ; tie in a bow, and coat ; signed
in monogram A. M. (Court.)
714 ALBERT, PRINCE CONSORT OF ENGLAND
Thomas Woolner.
B. 1819; second son of Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha ;
married Queen Victoria, 1840 ; d. 1861.
Whole length in Caen stone, the head slightly to r. ; parted hair,
whiskers and moustache ; loose cloak over coat with one button ;
trousers ; his 1. hand holds gloves, his r., indicated beneath the
cloak, on his hip. Inscribed : THIS STATUE OF THE PRINCE
CONSORT WAS PRESENTED TO THE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM BY CITIZENS
OF OXFORD APRIL, 1864. (Court.)
715 FREDERICK WILLIAM HOPE
Lowes Cato Dickinson.
B. 1797 ; educated at Christ Church ; M.A. 1823 ; founded the
Professorship of Zoology and endowed the Chair with his
Entomological collections ; d. 1862.
THE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM 235
Nearly whole length, seated to r. in a carved chair, looking at the
spectator ; grey hair and whiskers ; black tie ; white shirt ;
black Inverness cape over black clothes ; the r. hand closed on
knee, the 1. holds upright hooked stick; warm light-brown
background ; table with books to r. ; signed L. c. DICKINSON 1864.
Canvas 23 x 17^ in. Tablet inscribed : THE REV. FREDERICK
WILLIAM HOPE M.A. ; D.C.L. ; F.R.S. ; L.S. ; ETC. LOWES DICKINSON
PINXIT. PRESENTED BY MRS. HOPE, 1864.
(Laboratory of the Hope Professor.)
716 SIR BENJAMIN COLLINS BRODIE
William Behnes.
B. 1783 ; studied anatomy in London ; F.R.S. 1810 ; Professor of
Comparative Anatomy at the Royal College of Surgeons, 1816 ;
created a baronet, 1834 ; D.C.L., President of the Royal Society,
1858; d. 1862.
Bust, plaster, facing the spectator, the head turned to 1. ; thick
hair ; clean-shaven face ; eyeballs slightly incised ; drapery over
shoulders ; signed w. BEHNES SCULPTOR LONDON 1835.
A bust of Brodie by Behnes was exhibited at the Royal Academy
in 1836. (Room of the Regius Professor of Medicine.)
717 MICHAEL FARADAY
Edward Hodges Baity.
B. 1791 ; great scientific discoverer, especially of electrical forces ;
d. 1867.
Bust, plaster, head slightly to r. ; thick hair, curly over forehead ;
clean-shaven face ; eyeballs incised ; loose drapery over bare
neck ; signed E. H. BAILEY R.A. 1830.
Given to the Ashmolean Museum before 1836 by E. Magrath, Esq.,
and since transferred to the University Museum.
Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1830.
Lithographed as No. 10 of the Athenaeum Portraits in 1835.
(Court.)
718 JOHN PHILLIPS
Matthew Noble.
B. 1800 ; Keeper of the York Museum, 1825 ; F.R.S. 1834 ; Pro-
fessor of Geology at Trinity College, Dublin, 1844 ; Keeper of
the Ashmolean Museum, 1854 ; Professor of Geology, 1860 ;
D.C.L. 1866 ; d. 1874.
236 PORTRAITS IN
Bust, marble, the head turned to 1. ; curly hair, slight whiskers ;
incised eyeballs ; drapery round shoulders ; signed M. NOBLE sc.
1849.
The plaster model of this bust was exhibited at the Royal Academy
in 1850. (Court.)
jig CLAUDE BERNARD
Henri Frederic Iselm.
B. 1813, at Saint- Julien in the department of the Rhone ; studied
medicine at Paris ; M.D. 1843 ; Professor of Physiology in the
College de France, 1855 ; d. 1878.
Small plaster model of a bust in the Sorbonne ; longish hair ;
long whiskers ; eyeballs incised ; open collar, loose tie ; signed
IF. ISELIN 1878.
Presented to Sir J. S. Burdon-Sanderson, as one of the subscribers
to the original, and given to Dr. Gotch by the executors of Lady
Burdon-Sanderson, in 1909.
(Room of the Waynflete Professor of Physiology.)
720 WILLIAM SHARPEY
William Hamo Thornycroft.
B. 1802 ; studied at Edinburgh, London, and Paris ; M.D. 1823 ;
Professor of Anatomy and Physiology at University College,
London, 1836 ; F.R.S. 1839 ; d. 1880.
Small plaster bust ; head rather bald ; whiskers ; incised eyeballs ;
bare neck ; inscribed SHARPEY, signed w. H. THORNYCROFT 1871.
A reduced model of the marble executed for the Sharpey Memorial
Committee which was exhibited at the Royal Academy, in 1872,
and placed in University College, London.
The model was given to Dr. Gotch for the Museum, by the executor
of Lady Burdon-Sanderson, in 1909.
(Room of the Waynflete Professor of Physiology.)
721 GEORGE ROLLESTON
H. R. Hope Pinker.
B. 1829 ; educated at Pembroke College ; Fellow, 1851 ; M.D.
1857 ; Lee's Reader in Anatomy ; Linacre Professor of Physio-
logy, 1860; F.R.S. 1862; d. 1881.
Bust, marble, facing the spectator ; clean-shaven face ; incised eye-
balls ; turned-down collar, and tie ; Doctor's embroidered gown
over buttoned coat.
Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1884 as ' Presented to the
Oxford University Museum \ (Court.)
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722 CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN
H. R. Hope Pinker.
B. 1809 ; educated at Edinburgh and Christ's College, Cambridge ;
published the Voyage of the Beagle, 1840; the Origin of Species,
1859 ; d. 1882.
Whole length statue, stone ; standing leaning back with his feet
crossed ; bald head, thick beard and moustache ; full gathered
cloak with deep collar hanging from shoulders over coat and
trousers ; his hands held one over the other at his waist in front.
Offered to the University by Professor E. B. Poulton in 1896, and
presented and unveiled in 1899. (Court.)
723 HENRY JOHN STEPHEN SMITH
Sir J. E, Boehm.
B. 1826; educated at BaUiol College; Fellow, 1849; Savilian
Professor of Geometry, 1860 ; F.R.S. 1861 ; Keeper of the
University Museum, 1874 ; d. 1883.
Bust, marble ; short hair, thick beard and moustache ; incised eye-
balls ; gown and hood over coat ; shirt-front just showing ;
inscribed PROFESSOR HENRY SMITH and signed J. E. BOEHM FECIT 1883.
(Court.)
724 JOHN OBADIAH WESTWOOD
B. 1805 ; first Hope Professor of Zoology, 1861 ; Honorary Fellow of
Magdalen College, 1880 ; a distinguished palaeographer and
entomologist ; d. 1893.
Half length to 1., leaning back in a chair, the head three-quarters to
r. ; rough white hairand bushy beard, shaven upper lip ; black tie,
white shirt ; dull grey clothes ; on a wooden table in front lies
a book, his r. hand holds eyeglass. Canvas 31 x 25 in.
The tablet is inscribed JOHN OBH WESTWOOD M.A., L.S., HOPE PROFESSOR
OF ZOOLOGY ; PRESENTED BY MRS. HOPE 1876.
(Laboratory of the Hope Professor.)
725 SIR JOSEPH PRESTWICH
H. R. Hope Pinker.
B. 1812 ; educated at the University of London ; F.R.S. 1853 ;
Professor of Geology at Oxford, 1874 ; D.C.L. 1888; knighted,
1896; d. 1896.
238 PORTRAITS IN
Bust, marble ; hair thick over ears ; long whiskers ; incised eyeballs ;
stand-up collar; bow-tie ; shirt-front ; gown over coat.
Given to the Museum by Lady Prestwich and her family through
Mr. Russell Scott, 1903.
Exhibited as a posthumous portrait at the Royal Academy in 1901.
(Court.)
726 THE SAME
Medallion, bronze, in profile to 1. ; thick hair and whiskers ; clean-
shaven chin ; collar and coat ; inscribed JOSEPH PRESTWICH, BORN
1812 DIED 1896. F. B. AFTER H. PINKER.
Based on the bust by Mr. Hope Pinker in the Court of the Museum,
and presented by Sir John Evans.
(Room of the Professor of Geology.)
727 SIR HENRY WENTWORTH ACLAND
Sir Joseph Edgar Soehm.
B. 1815 ; educated at Christ Church ; Fellow of All Souls College,
1840 ; M.A. 1842 ; M.D. 1848 ; Regius Professor of Medicine,
1858 ; K.C.B. 1884 ; a chief promoter of scientific studies at
Oxford, and of the building of the Museum ; d. 1900.
Bust, bronze, facing the spectator ; head a little bald ; thick hair
over the ears ; whiskers and beard under the chin ; gown over
double-breasted coat ; star of a K.C.B. ; inscribed ACLAND 1887.
BOEHM FECIT.
Probably a replica from a marble bust made for the General
Medical Council, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1887.
(Court.)
728 SIR JOHN SCOTT BURDON-SANDERSON
H. R. Hope Pinker.
B. 1828 ; educated at Edinburgh ; Professor of Physiology at
University College, London, 1874-82 ; Waynflete Professor at
Oxford, 1882-95; Regius Professor of Medicine, 1895-1904;
created a Baronet 1899 ; D.C.L., F.R.S. ; d. 1905.
Bust, marble, facing the spectator ; longish curly hair ; clean-shaven
face ; turned-down collar and loose tie ; Doctor's embroidered
gown over buttoned coat ; signed and dated H. R. HOPE PINKER
1907. (Court.)
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729 THE SAME
The Hon. John Cottier.
Whole length, seated to r., leaning over a wooden laboratory table,
the head turned facing the spectator ; longish grey hair ; clean-
shaven face ; white turned-down collar, grey tie, black coat and
dark grey trousers ; his r. hand on the key, the 1. touching an
electrical instrument on the table ; warm grey background ;
signed below to r. JOHN COLLIER 1893. Canvas 55^ x 43J in.
Painted by subscription for his old pupils, and presented to Lady
Burdon-Sanderson, who gave it to the Physiological Laboratory
in 1895.
Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1894.
(Theatre of the Department of Physiology.)
730 WALTER FRANK RAPHAEL WELDON
R. H. Hope Pinker.
B. 1860 ; Scholar of St. John's College, Cambridge ; Fellow, 1884 ;
F.R.S. 1890; Professor of Zoology at University College, London;
Linacre Professor of Comparative Anatomy, 1899 ; d. 1906.
Bust, marble, facing the spectator; head slightly bald; heavy
moustache ; collar and loose tie ; Doctor's embroidered gown over
buttoned coat ; a measuring calliper projecting from the breast
pocket.
Made, and presented to the University by the Subscribers to the
Weldon Memorial Fund in 1908. (Court.)
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INSTITUTE
731 ROBERT, LORD CLIVE
Attributed to Sir Nathaniel Dance.
B. 1725 ; entered the service of the East India Company, 1743 ;
won the battle of Plassey, 1757 ; created Baron Clive, 1762 ;
K.B. 1764 ; Governor of Bengal, 1765 ; d. 1774.
Three-quarters length, three-quarters to r., the head turned three-
quarters to 1. ; powdered hair tied with black bag ; clean-shaven
face ; white neck-cloth and frilled shirt-front ; white waistcoat
with gold buttons ; red coat with blue and gold facings and
epaulettes ; buff breeches ; red sash of the Order of the Bath
with star on his breast ; ring with the head of George III cut in
the gem on little finger of r. hand, which is pointing to a camp
of tents in a landscape background ; the 1. hand grasps the hilt
of his sword. Canvas 44 x 37 in. The frame inscribed : PAINTED
BY SIR NATHANIEL DANCE R.A.
Presented to the Indian Institute by E. Walford, M.A., formerly
Scholar of Balliol College.
A similar but not identical picture by Dance is in the National
Portrait Gallery.
732 PAL KRISTO DAS
Thomas Nelson Maclean.
B. 1834 ; educated at the Metropolitan College, Calcutta ; editor
and manager of the Hindu Patriot, 1861 ; Member of the Bengal
Legislative Council, 1872 ; on the Governor-General's Council,
1883; C.I.E. 1878; d. 1884.
Bust, bronze ; round Indian hat ; heavy moustache ; eyes incised ;
cloak over inner embroidered garment ; the 1. hand on heartj
signed T. NELSON MACLEAN, sc: and inscribed : WITH THE SCULP "
KIND REGARDS TO SIR W. HUNTER.
KS
THE INDIAN INSTITUTE
733 BRIAN HOUGHTON HODGSON
Charles Alexander.
B. 1800; of the Bengal Civil Service; Resident at the Court of
Nepal ; RR.S. 1877 ; D.C.L. 1889 ; a distinguished student of
Buddhism ; d. 1894.
Three-quarters length, seated three-quarters to 1. in a wooden arm-
chair ; rough white hair, moustache and beard ; red D.C.L.
gown over dark clothes ; his hands resting on arms of chair.
Canvas 55 x 43 ins.
Given to the Indian Institute by Mrs. B. H. Hodgson.
734 SIR MONIER MONIER WILLIAMS
W. W. Ouless.
B. 1819, at Bombay ; educated at Balliol College ; D.C.L. 1875 ;
Fellow, 1882 ; Boden Professor of Sanskrit, 1860 ; Keeper of
the Indian Institute ; knighted 1886 ; K.C.I.E. 1887 ; d. 1899.
Three-quarters length, slightly to r., the head turned and looking
at the spectator ; short dark hair, grey beard and moustache ;
white collar ; black tie in a bow ; D.C.L. red gown over black
clothes ; Order on breast, gold watch-chain ; his r. hand rests on
books lying on table to 1., his 1. holds a pamphlet ; dark architec-
tural background ; signed w. w. OULESS, 1882. Canvas 43 J X 33-| in.
Given to the Indian Institute by the sister of the subject, Hannah
Sophia, wife of John C. Cattley of Shabden, Chipstead, Surrey.
Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1882.
735 SIR WILLIAM WILSON HUNTER
W. Hamo Thornycroft.
B. 1840 ; entered the Indian Civil Service, 1861 ; organized the
statistical Survey of Indian Empire, 1869, which resulted in the
Imperial Gazetteer of India ; C.I.E. 1878 ; K.C.S.I. 1887 ;
Curator of the Institute, 1893 ; d. 1900.
Bust, bronze, facing the spectator ; short hair and moustache ; eyes
incised ; standing collar ; tie in a sailor's knot with pin ; coat
over double-breasted waistcoat ; inscribed SIR w. w. HUNTER,
K.C.S.I., HAMO THORNYCROFT 1900.
Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1901.
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736 GEORGE UGLOW POPE
Alfred Wolmark.
B. 1820 ; went to India, 1839 ; a missionary for forty-two years ;
D.D. from Lambeth, 1864 ; Lecturer in Tamil, 1884 ; published
works on Tamil ; d. 1908.
Three-quarters length, seated slightly to 1., his head against a red
cushion; grey hair, beard and moustache; white collar and
cuffs ; M.A. hood and black gown over black clothes ; his r.
hand rests on a book which lies on the arm of his chair; his
left holds spectacles ; dark background ; signed in monogram
A. w. and dated 03. Canvas 43 x 33£ in.
Presented to the Institute by subscription among his pupils in
Madras in 1903.
737 THOMAS, FIRST EARL BRASSEY
Copy from Frank Holl.
B. 1836; educated at University College; entered Parliament, 1865 ;
Governor of Victoria, 1895 ; D.C.L. ; Lord Warden of the
Cinque Ports, G.C.B. 1906 ; created an earl, 1911 ; generous
benefactor to the Institute.
Three-quarters length to r. ; greyish hair and whiskers ; white collar,
black tie ; black clothes ; his r. hand holds a telescope, the 1.
his hat by his side. Canvas 43 x 33f in.
Given to the Indian Institute by the subject.
738 HIS HIGHNESS BALA RAMA VARMA,
MAHARAJA OF TRAVANCORE
K. P. Tampy.
B. 1857 ; succeeded to the throne, 1885 ; G.C.S.I. 1888 ; G.C.I.E.
1903 ; benefactor to the Institute.
Three-quarters length, facing the spectator, the head turned slightly
to r. ; white jewelled turban with plume ; clean-shaven face ;
diamond ear-rings ; blue and gold brocade garment with sleeves
over deep blue close-fitting tunic ; star of the Order of the Star
of India with ribbon, heavy jewelled collar and badge; large
diamond and emerald rings on both hands, the r. resting on book
on a table to 1., the 1. hanging by his side ; dark background ;
signed and dated K. P. TAMPY 1895. Canvas 51 x 38£ in.
THE INDIAN INSTITUTE 243
739 HIS HIGHNESS SIR BHAGVAT SINJI
THAKUR SAHIB OF GONDAL
Frank Brooks.
B. 1865 ; educated at Edinburgh University ; Fellow of Bombay
University ; M.D. 1895 ; D.C.L. 1892 ; author of a history of
Aryan Medical Science; G.C.I.E. 1897; benefactor to the
Institute.
Three-quarters length, seated three-quarters to r. ; gold turban ;
blackhair andmoustache ; red D.C.L. gown over gold-embroidered
dark blue uniform ; the star and badge and ribbon of the Order
of the Indian Empire and another Order on breast ; both hands
hold half-opened printed paper ; dark reddish background ;
signed FRANK BBOOKS 1895. Canvas 49J x 39^ in.
Given to the Indian Institute by the subject.
844
IX
PORTKAITS IN THE POSSESSION OF
THE CITY OF OXFORD
i
PRESERVED IN THE TOWN HALL
740 SIR THOMAS WHITE
Sampson.
B. 1492 ; apprenticed to a member of the Company of Merchant-
Taylors of London ; set up his own business, 1523 ; first Renter-
warden of the Company, 1530 ; Master, e. 1535 ; Alderman,
1545 ; Sheriff, 1547 ; one of the promoters of the Muscovy Com-
pany; Lord Mayor, and knighted, 1553; founded St. John's
College, 1555 ; helped to found Merchant Taylors' School ;
bought and remodelled Gloucester Hall, 1559-60 ; d. 1567.
Three-quarters length, standing slightly to 1. ; black cap ; white
hair, clean-shaven face ; narrow white collar with gauffred edge ;
black dress ; scarlet gown lined and edged with brown fur ; long
gold chain over shoulders ; his r. hand holds gloves, his 1. grasps
his girdle ; dark-brown background ; two shields of arms above.
Panel37ix29in.
A payment to ' Sampson the Paynter, for Paynting Sir Thomas
White's Picture, ^3,' occurs in the accounts of the city for 1597.
Inscribed on the frame :
Thomas White, Miles, Aldermannus civitatis London Fundator Collegii S.
Johannis Baptistae et Aulae Glocestrensis Oxon.
Cum 24or Urbes hujus regni Angliae suis ditassit opibus.
Anis et honore plenus obiit Febr. n° A° D° 1566 aetatis sue 72.
A worthy Benefactor who gave unto the cite of Oxon, and XXIIItie other cities
and townes everie XXIIIth yeare one hundred and fyve Poundes, for ever.
Probably a copy from a similar portrait at Merchant Taylors' Hall.1
Other portraits are at St. John's College and elsewhere.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1904, No. 37*.
741 RALPH FLEXNEY
Owned property in St. Michael's and St. Frideswide's parishes in
1 Reproduced as the frontispiece of F. M. Fry's Historical Catalogue of th*
Pictures . . . at Merchant Taylors' Hall, 1907. It has been in the possession of
the Company since before 1609.
THE TOWN HALL 245
1545 ; married 1st, Agnes Cogan (d. 1550), 2ndly, Catherine
(d. 1567) ; Mayor 1551, 1552, 1562, 1577 ; M.P. for the city,
1547-52; d. 1578.
Half length, slightly to 1. ; grey hair, moustache, and white beard ;
white pleated ruff and cuffs ; black dress ; his r. hand lies on a
email book open before him, his 1. holds gloves ; dark background ;
shield of arms above to 1. Canvas 37 x 28| in.
If this is a contemporary portrait, the arms must have been
added at a later date, as they were not granted to this Ralph
Flexney, but to another, probably a descendant, in 1592. They
appear also on a brass representing a man in an alderman's gown,
and a woman, kneeling, the shield between them, which was put
up by Thomas in memory of his parents Ralph and Catherine
Flexney, in St. Michael's Church where they lie buried.1
Thomas Flexney died in 1623 and it seems probable that the
picture was painted somewhere in the middle of James Ps reign,
when the commemorative brass was engraved, and both decorated
with the later honours of the family. The portrait is not in
Peshall's list, or may then have borne another name.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1904, No. 36.
742 ZACHARY BOGAN
Shorter.
B. 1625 ; Scholar of Corpus Christi College, 1641 ; Fellow, 1647 ;
left Oxford when the city was garrisoned for the King, but
returned after the surrender ; benefactor to the city ; d. 1659.
Half length, standing three-quarters to 1. ; black hair falling to
shoulders ; clean-shaven face ; black skull-cap ; square bands ;
black dress ; his 1. hand holds a small book ; dark background.
Canvas 33 x 24 in.
The frame is inscribed :
Zacharias Bogan artium magister, C.C.C. nuper socius in acad: Oxoniensi.
A worthy Benefactor who gave to this cittie of Oxford Five hundred Poundes
that the increase thereof should yearlie bind apprentices soe many of the children
of ye poorest of ye inhabitants of ye parishes of St. Ebbes, St. Peters in ye
Bayly, St. Thomas parish, St. Mary Magdalen and St. Giles as ye Maior Alder-
men and Bayliffs of ye sayd cittie or ye major part of them shall thinke fitte.
1659.
Payments to 'Mr. Shorter for drawing Mr. Bogan's picture
i?3. lOtf. OJ.,' and for making a copy of it, <£>2. 10s. Od.9 occur
in the accounts of the city for 1660. At a meeting of the Town
Council on 14 May 1660 it was agreed that as Mr. Bogan the
1 Wood's City of Oxford, in, 162.
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brother of the late worthy Benefactor desired the first draught
of the portrait, another picture be drawn and a frame provided
at the city charge for the use of the city.1
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 66.
743 JOHN NIXON
Attributed to John Taylor.
B. 1588 ; a mercer in the parish of St. Mary the Virgin ; Bailiff
of the city, 1627 ; Mayor, 1646 and 1654 ; M.P. for the city,
1646 ; founded a free school for citizens1 sons, 1658 ; d. 1662.
Half length, standing slightly to 1. ; white hair, moustache and
tuft on chin ; black broad-brimmed hat ; deep square collar ;
scarlet gown lined with fur over black dress ; both hands before
him, his 1. holding gloves, his r. resting on a ledge ; curtain and
architectural background ; inscribed AETATIS SUAE 70mo FEE 20mo
A° DOM. 1658. Canvas 44 x 34£ in.
An entry recording that it was agreed that the portraits of
Alderman Nixon and his wife (see No. 745) be fairly drawn at
the expense of the city, occurs in the minutes of the Town
Council, May 11, 1659.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 85*.
744 JOHN WALL
John Taylor.
B. 1588 ; educated at Christ Church ; M.A. 1611 ; D.D. 1623 ;
Vicar of St. Aldate's, 1617 ; Canon of Christ Church, 1632, of
Salisbury, 1644. Gave ^1,040 to the city, 1664, and left an
equal sum by will ; d. 1666.
Three-quarters length, standing slightly to 1. ; grey hair, moustache
and tuft on chin ; black square cap ; deep square collar ; black
and scarlet D.D. gown over black dress ; both hands before him,
his r. holding a small book, his 1. a pair of fringed gloves ;
landscape background with overhanging rock to r., view of
Oxford to 1. ; inscribed THE LORD MAKE SALVATION THY WALLS AND
PRAISE THY GATES . IN THE TYME OF JOHN HARRIS ESQ. MAIOR AN°
DO. 1664. Canvas 44 x 34£ in.
Payments of £8 10s. Od. ' to Mr. Taylor for drawing ' this picture,,
and £2 Is. 4td. to Thurston and John Woodfeild < for the skreen
and the frame "', occur in the city accounts for 1664.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1905, No 93*.
1 Minute book of the Town Council.
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745 JOAN NIXON
Attributed to John Taylor.
B. at Weston-on-the-Green, daughter of — Stevenson, and wife of
Alderman John Nixon (see No. 743) ; she added to her husband's
foundation a benefaction for apprenticing schoolboys ; d. 1671.
Three-quarters length, standing slightly to r. ; black broad-
brimmed steeple-crowned hat over black and white hood ; black
dress and cape trimmed with white ; her 1. hand holds a small
book before her, her r. a feather fan ; architectural background
with landscape through opening to r. Canvas 44 x 35 in.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 101*.
746 UNKNOWN MAN. ? ALDERMAN JOHN
HARRIS
B. 1594, at Burford, Oxon. ; a tailor ; m. daughter of Thomas Lynk ;
bailiff, 1652 ; mayor, 1663 ; benefactor to the city ; buried in St.
Michael's Church ; d. 1674.
Three-quarters length, standing almost facing the spectator ; white
hair falling to neck ; white moustache and beard ; square bands ;
small turned-back cuffs ; scarlet and tawny gown trimmed with
fur over dark brown clothes braided in gold ; his r. hand draws
his gown across chest, his 1., gloved, hangs by his side holding
glove with deep embroidered gauntlet ; green-covered table to 1. ;
dark background. Canvas 47-| x 38 in.
This picture cannot represent Henry Wise, whose name and the date
of his first year of office, 1711 (he was mayor as late as 1730), are
recorded on the tablet. It appears to be an eighteenth-century
restoration of an earlier portrait which was no doubt decayed. The
beard and hair could not possibly belong to a man living when
clean-shaving and large wigs were in fashion ; they and the glove
with its deep gauntlet suggest the early or middle seventeenth
century. The frame also is approximately of that period. It seems
possible that it is the portrait, restored, of Alderman John Harris,
which is mentioned among those in the Guildhall in 1773 by
Sir John Peshall in his edition of Wood.
747 RICHARD HAWKINS
Attributed to John Taylor.
B. 1611 (?) ; described as herald painter and painter stainer ;
employed ' about the porch and gates of St. Mary's ', 1637-8 ; in
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the Divinity School, 1669 ; in the ' Repository for Mr. Ashmole's
Rarities,' 1678-9 ; bailiff of the City of Oxford, 1661 ; Mayor,
1689 ; appeared as witness in the trial of A. Wood for libel, 1693,
when, at the age of 82, he had lived 70 years in Oxford.
Three-quarters length, standing slightly to r. ; grey hair, moustache
and tuft on chin ; black broad-brimmed hat ; deep square collar ;
scarlet and tawny gown over black dress ; his r. hand rests on the
head of a staff, his 1. holds gold-fringed gloves ; landscape back-
ground with overhanging rock to 1. Canvas 44f x 35 in.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 176*.
748 JAMES BERTIE, EARL OF ABINGDON
B. 1654 ; Baron Norreys of Rycote, created Earl of Abingdon, 1681 ;
High Steward of Oxford, 1687 ; took an active part in promoting
the accession to the throne of William III ; d. 1699.
Whole length, standing slightly to r., the head turned slightly to 1. ;
long dark wig ; clean-shaven face ; lace cravat and ruffles ; peer's
robes ; red velvet coat, the sleeves richly embroidered, lined with
white and girdled ; red velvet breeches ; white silk stockings ;
buff square-toed buckled shoes with red heels ; red velvet mantle
lined with white silk, with deep ermine cape ; his r. hand on hip, his
1. holding earl's coronet ; architectural background.
Inscribed above to 1. : RT HON. JAMES EARL OF ABINGDON AND LD NORRIS
OF RYCOT, SON OF MOUNTAGU EARL OF LINDSEY (LD. GREAT CHAM-
BERLAIN OF ENGLAND) BY BRIDGET HIS WIFE BARRONESS NORREYS
SOLE DAUGHTER AND HEIR TO EDWARD WRAY ESQB AND THE LADY
ELIZ NORREYS DAUGHTER AND HEIR TO FRANCIS LD NORREYS VISCOUNT
THAME AND EARL OF BERKSHIRE, FROM WHOM THE BARONEY
OF NORREYS DESCENDING TO HIM. HE WAS FOR HIS GREAT LOYALTY
AND SERVICES TO YE CROWN CREATED EARL OF ABINGDON BY KG CHARLES
THE SECOND A° D. 1681 ; HE WAS LD LIEUTT OF THIS COUNTY FROM
THE YEAR 1674 TO THE YEAR 1687. AND AFTERWARDS L° LIEUT. AND
CUSTOS ROTULORUM FROM THE FIRST OF KG W. AND QU. MA: A.D. 1688
TILL THE YEAR 1697, AND WAS CHOSEN HIGH STEWARD OF THIS CITY
IN THE YEAR 1687, WAS LIKEWISE CHIEF JUSTICE IN EYRE OF ALL THIS
KINGDOM FOREST ETC SOUTH OF TRENT. Canvas 96 X 58 J in.
Painted for the city, perhaps, as the date of death is not recorded,
between 1697 and 1699 ; a very similar picture, ascribed to Michael
Dahl, was given to the Bodleian Picture Gallery in 1700 by the
second earl, and is now at the Examination Schools, No. 338.
THE TOWN HALL 249
749 KING JAMES II
B. 1633 ; second son of Charles I and Henrietta Maria ; m. 1st,
Anne, daughter of Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, 1659, 2nd,
Mary of Modena, 1673 ; succeeded to the throne, 1685 ; visited
Oxford, 1663 and 1687 ; fled to France, 1688 ; d. 1701.
Three-quarters length, standing facing the spectator, the head turned
slightly to 1. ; dark periwig falling over shoulders ; clean-shaven
face ; lace cravat ; plate armour ; blue ribbon with pendent
George of the Order of the Garter across breast ; red sash round
waist ; his r. hand grasps baton, his 1. knuckles downward, on hip ;
landscape background with overhanging rock to 1., battle to r.
Canvas 49 x 39£ in.
This picture is not in PeshalPs list of 1773.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1905, No. 191.
750 QUEEN ANNE
Ascribed to Sir G. Kneller.
B. 1665 ; second daughter of King James II and Anne Hyde ; m.
George, Prince of Denmark, 1683; succeeded to the throne,
1702; visited Oxford 1683, 1688, 1702, and 1708; d. 1714.
Whole-length, seated facing the spectator on a red chair of state, the
back surmounted by cherubs ; dark hair dressed close to the head ;
low-cut cloth-of-gold dress, the sleeves and bodice trimmed with
ermine ; full lace undersleeves over bare arms ; blue velvet mantle
lined with ermine and edged with bands of ermine and gold studded
with pearls ; ribbon of the Garter with the lesser George set in
diamonds round neck ; her r. hand rests on her lap, her finger in
her girdle, her 1. holds the orb on her knee ; one foot on red gold-
fringed cushion before her ; crown and sceptre on table to r. ;
red background. Canvas 93J x 55J in.
751 JOHN CHURCHILL, DUKE OF
MARLBOROUGH
B. 1650; entered the army, 1667; colonel, 1678; created Earl of
Marlborough, 1689 ; K.G. and Duke, 1702 ; won the battle of
Blenheim, 1704 ; was voted the Palace of Blenheim, 1705 ; d.
1716.
Half length, to 1., the head turned slightly to r. ; long dark brown
wig ; clean-shaven face ; white cravat ; dark red coat ; ribbon of
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the Garter and badge on breast ; inscribed INO DUKE . . . MARL-
BOROUGH ; painted in an oval spandrel ; warm brown background.
Canvas 30 x 25 in.
Copy of the head of a portrait at Blenheim, which is itself a copy
by John Smith of a three-quarters length at Al thorp. Dibdin in
his Aedes Althorpianae records the tradition that the picture was
a special favourite with Duchess Sarah, who called it ' her dark
hero ', all other portraits of the duke representing him in a fair wig.
The picture does not occur in Peshall's list of the portraits in the
Town Hall in 1773.
752 SIR JOHN WALTER
B. 1673, of Sarsden, Oxfordshire ; entered Queen's College, 1691 ;
succeeded as third baronet, 1694 ; created D.C.L. 1702 ; M.P. for
Appleby, 1694 ; M.P. for the city, 1705, and sat in six Parlia-
ments ; m. Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Vernon ; d. 1722.
Three-quarters length, to r., looking at the spectator; fair wig,
clean-shaven face ; white cravat and full white shirt-sleeves ;
golden-brown coat ; red drapery round waist and over 1. arm ;
his r. hand holds drapery on hip, his 1. on high table to r., on
which are books ; more books behind to r. ; warm grey back-
ground. Canvas 47^ x 38£ in.
Tablet on frame inscribed : « Sir John Walter Baronet M.P. 1705.'
753 THOMAS ROWNEY THE ELDER
B. 1668 (?) ; son of Thomas Rowney, an attorney of the city (d.
1694) ; matriculated at St. John's College, 1684 ; called to the
Bar at the Inner Temple, 1694 ; m. Elizabeth, daughter of Ed-
ward Noel ; built the Judge's Lodgings in St. Giles, 1702, and
lived there ; represented the city in ten Parliaments, 1695-1722;
d. 1727.
Half length, to r., the head turned facing the spectator ; long grey
wig over shoulders ; clean-shaven face ; white shirt open at neck
with full sleeves ; blue velvet coat with silver buttons ; pale red
drapery over his 1. arm and round waist, held on hip by his r.
hand; the 1. is thrust into his coat ; hilt of sword to r. Canvas
in.
754 PHILIP HERBERT
Attributed to Adrien Carpentwr.
B. 1697 (?) ; second son of James Herbert of Tythorp and Kingsey,
THE TOWN HALL 251
Bucks., and brother of James Herbert, M.P. for the city, 1738-
40 ; m. Mary, daughter of Dr. Edward Butler, President of Mag-
dalen College and M.P. for the University; M.P. for the City,
1740-49 ; ' beloved of all not because he sought it, but because
he deserved it ' ; d. 1749.1
Three-quarters length, standing to r. ; long powdered wig over
shoulders ; clean-shaven face ; full lace ruffles ; grey velvet coat
with silver buttons, lined with white silk, over rich cloth-of-silver
waistcoat, the same material forming the wide cuffs of the coat ;
his r. hand on his hip ; his 1. thrust into his waistcoat ; black hat
under his 1. arm ; landscape background, sea and rock to r.
Canvas 48| x 39 in.
Painted apparently as a pair to the portrait of Thomas Rowney
the younger (No. 755) which is signed and dated ' A. Carpentier
1745.' The similarity of handling, pose, size, etc., makes this
practically certain, and it follows that the picture represents
Philip Herbert, who was a fellow burgess with Rowney in 1745,
and not James, whose name appears on the tablet. In earlier
lists of this collection (Peshall, p. 113), it is rightly identified as
Philip Herbert.
Herbert and Rowney the younger were concerned together in the
building of the Town Hall in the middle of the eighteenth
century.
755 THOMAS ROWNEY THE YOUNGER
Adrien Carpentier.
B. 1693 (?) ; entered St. John's College, and Student of the Inner
Temple, 1709 ; succeeded his father, Thomas Rowney the elder,
as M.P. for the City of Oxford, 1722, and sat for it in six Parlia-
ments ; a munificent benefactor to the city ; d. 1759.
Three-quarters length, standing three-quarters to 1. ; white periwig
falling to shoulders ; clean-shaven face ; white cravat and ruffles ;
grey coat ; blue waistcoat embroidered with gold ; his r. hand
thrust into his breast, his 1., gloved and holding glove, hangs by
his side ; three-cornered hat under his 1. arm ; blue sky and
landscape background ; distant view of the old Town Hall,2 which
1 Lipscombe's History of Buckinghamshire gives the record of Philip Herbert's
death from his tomb in Thame Church as July 1759, aged 3% : which, since his
father died in 1709, is obviously impossible. 52 is probably right.
2 It was intended that a statue of Thomas Rowney by Rysbrack should be
placed in front of the Town Hall ; this may never have been achieved, or the
figure may have perished. In Parker's Handbook for Visitors to Oxford, 1858,
p. 227, it is recorded that a statue of the benefactor, in Caen stone, was placed
in the niche in the front of the Town Hall, sculptured by Grimsley, the gift of
Alderman Charles Tawney, in 1840.
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was built in 1752 chiefly at his expense, to 1., tree trunk, with
shield of arms above to r. ; signed and dated A: CARPENTIER. P:
A° 1745. Canvas 49 x 39| in.
Head only engraved by J. Green, Oxon. ; the whole, in the style of
J. Faber but without signature, and named Thomas Rowney
senior.
Oxford Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1906, No. 80*.
756 THE SAME
Bust, slightly to r., looking at the spectator ; fair wig ; clean-shaven
face; white bands over full shirt; cinnamon-brown coat with
large buttons ; black gown ; warm dark background. Canvas
oval 29i x 24£ in.
Tablet on frame inscribed : ' This portrait of Thomas Rowney Esq.,
formerly High Steward and M.P. for this City and a liberal con-
tributor to the building of this Hall, A. D. 1752, was presented
to the citizens to commemorate the opening of the Public
Library, June 1st, 1854. Presented by Frederick King. '
757 THOMAS WISE
B. 1690 (?) ; Mayor, 1746 ; Key keeper in 1754, 1758-9 and 1761 ;
d. (?) 1763.
Three-quarters length, sitting to r., the head turned facing the
spectator ; black wig to shoulders ; clean-shaven face ; white
cravat ; scarlet, black velvet, and fur gown over dark clothes ; his
r. hand on arm of chair, his 1. rests on table on which lies paper
inscribed THOMAS WISE OXFORD ; architectural background. Canvas
48 x 40 in.
Tablet on frame inscribed ALDERMAN THOMAS WISE 1738.
758 SIR JOHN TREACHER
Margaret Fletcher.
B. 1719 (?) x ; a brewer ; Mayor, 1741, 1754, 1763, 1784 ; knighted,
1785 ; d. 1807.
Half length, slightly to r., looking at the spectator ; short grey
wig ; clean-shaven face ; white neck-cloth ; yellow and blue
striped waistcoat with high collar; dark grey coat; dark red
curtain background ; landscape with sky through arched opening
to r. Canvas 38 x 25£ in.
1 In the Gentleman? sMagazine, 1807, he is said to have died in his 68th year,
which is impossible if the dates of the mayoralties are correct.
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Tablet inscribed : SIR JOHN TREACHER, FOUR TIMES MAYOR OF OXFORD,
KNIGHTED BY GEORGE III IN 1785. PRESENTED TO THE MAYOR ALDER-
MEN AND CITIZENS OF OXFORD BY THE REV. J. S. TREACHER M.A.
(COUNCILLOR F. TWINING, MAYOR.)
On a paper pasted on back is written : —
Sir John Treacher, four times Mayor of Oxford, knighted by George III in
1785. Founder and builder of the Swan Brewery, and the fine residence near
it, all which he afterwards sold to the grandfather of A. W. Hall, Esq., late M.P.
for Oxford. Sir John died in 1807, and was buried in the family vault at Stoke
Talmage.1 This picture was painted by Margaret Fletcher from a miniature and
a chalk drawing, and given to the Mayor and Corporation in 1906, by the Rev.
J. S. Treacher, 24 Norham Gardens.
759 GEORGE SPENCER, DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH
Copy from G. Romney.
B. 1739 ; succeeded as fourth duke in 1758 ; Lord-Lieutenant of
Oxfordshire, 1760; Lord Chamberlain, 1762; Privy Seal, 1763;
D.C.L. 1763; E.G. 1768, installed 1771; High Steward of
the University, 1779 ; gave copies of Raphael cartoons, 1808,
and a telescope to the University ; d. 1817.
Whole length, standing slightly to 1. on a marble floor ; short
white wig ; clean-shaven face ; white neck-cloth ; in Garter robes;
white silk tunic and breeches, stockings and kid shoes ; red,
white-lined surcoat; blue velvet mantle lined with white with
badge ; he wears collar and Garter of that Order, and the ribbon
of the Bath over his r. shoulder ; his r. hand on hip, his 1. holds
plumed hat by his side ; red curtain and architectural back-
ground. Canvas 91^ x 55^ in.
The tablet on frame is erroneously inscribed ' Charles 3rd duke \
An account of the visit of the Lord Mayor of London to Oxford
in July 1826, written by the Chaplain to the Mayoralty by desire
of the party, describes this portrait (p. 22) as that of 'the late
Duke of Marlborough by Gainsborough1. It is in fact a copy
of a portrait by George Romney at Blenheim, painted between
1779 and 1786, and sent off July 1787, with a fellow portrait of
the Duchess.
The original was exhibited at the Grafton Gallery, 1900, No. 4.
760 SIR WILLIAM ELIAS TAUNTON
B. 1744 ; Solicitor to the city, 1794 ; Town Clerk, 1795 ; m. Frances
Grosvenor; father of the judge of the same name (d. 1835);
1 I am informed that the date of birth is not to be found there.
254 PORTRAITS IN
knighted by the Prince Regent on the occasion of the visit of
the Allied Sovereigns, 1814 ; d. 1825.
Half length, seated in a red-backed chair, facing the spectator ; grey
hair and slight whiskers ; clean-shaven face ; white neck-cloth
and frilled shirt ; black clothes ; his r. hand holds a scroll. Canvas
35x27 in.
Tablet inscribed SIR WILLIAM ELIAS TAUNTON, KNT, TOWN CLERK 1795.
The Minutes of the Town Council record in 1825 the acceptance of
the bequest of ' this portrait after the death of Lady Taunton '.
761 SIR EDWARD HITCHINGS
Eliza Jones.
B. 1749 (?) ; Chamberlain, 1784 ; Bailiff, 1786 ; Mayor of Oxford,
1800, 1811, and 1821 ; knighted, 1812 ; d. in St. Giles, 1825.
Three-quarters length, seated to r. in a red arm-chair ; powdered
hair ; clean-shaven face ; white neck-cloth, and frills at wrists ;
red fur-edged gown with gold work on breast over black clothes;
white or grey thin loose scarf over 1. shoulder passing round neck
and coming down over r. shoulder in front ; his r. hand holds
scroll and rests on table to 1., on which, under his arm, lies a large
paper ; stone pillar behind to 1., green curtain and distant view
of Oxford to r. Water-colour drawing 6x4^ in.
A paper pasted at the back is inscribed : ' Sir Edward Hitchings,
Knight, Mayor of Oxford, I believe three times, painted by Miss
Eliza Jones.'
762 WILLIAM FLETCHER
B. 1739 ; son of James Fletcher, bookseller of the Turl, Oxford ;
prospered in business as a draper in High Street ; in partnership
with Alderman Parsons established the Old Bank ; admitted to
the Freedom of the City, 1765 ; Councillor, 1766 ; Chamberlain,
1769 ; Bailiff, 1773 ; Mayor 1782, 1796, and 1809 ; a collector
and an antiquary to whose efforts is due the preservation of many
beautiful and valuable things in the city; benefactor to the
Bodleian Library, to the city, and to Yarnton parish ; d. in his
house in Broad Street, 1826.
Half length, seated to r. in a wooden chair ; bushy white wig ;
clean-shaven face ; white neck-cloth buttoned inside his brown
waistcoat and pulled out again lower down ; brown coat ; his
r. hand rests on a leather book on table before him, on which are
also an ink-pot and pen standing on a paper inscribed with the
THE TOWN HALL 255
beginning and ends of words NOT . . F . . and at the end LE N . . ;
above to 1. a shield of arms : arg. a cross ragule sa. ; 4 pheons arg.
on pellets. ; crest : a horse's head couped arg., and beneath ^T: SUAE
57 ; to r. a skull subscribed LEARN TO DIE. 1 Canvas 29 x 24£ in.
The tablet on frame bears the words ALDERMAN FLECKER 1798.
763 JAMES HOUGHTON LANGSTON
Attributed to Samuel West.2
B. 1796 ; of Sarsden, Oxfordshire ; educated at Christ Church ;
created D.C.L. 1819 ; High Sheriff, 1819 ; M.P. for the city,
1826-35 and 1841-63 ; d. 1863.
Three-quarters length, standing facing the spectator ; short brown
hair and whiskers ; standing collar ; black stock and tie ; white
shirt and waistcoat ; black coat and trousers ; his r. hand holds
papers by his side, his 1. rests on a yellow-covered table on which
lie more papers, and writing materials ; red chair behind, pillar
to 1. ; warm brown background. Canvas 55J x 43 in.
Tablet on frame is inscribed : JAMES HOUGHTON LANGSTON ESQ., OF
SARSDEN OXON. BORN MAY 25 1796. DIED OCT 10 1863. 32 YEARS M.P.
FOR OXFORD CITY. PRESENTED BY HIS SON-IN-LAW HENRY JOHN EARL
OF DUCIE, 1864.
764 C. J. SADLER
Sir William Boxall.
B. 1792; Councillor, 1823; Chamberlain, 1825 ; Bailiff, 1828; Al-
derman, 1836 ; Mayor, 1837, 1849, 1854, and 1860 ; J.P. ; died
as the ' Father of the Corporation ', 1872.
Three-quarters length, seated to 1., the head turned slightly towards
the spectator ; thin grey hair and whiskers ; standing collar,
shirt-front and cuffs ; black tie ; alderman^ scarlet and fur gown
over black clothes ; his r. hand rests on arm of chair, his 1. on
knee. Canvas 49 x 39^ in.
Given to the City by the subject.
Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1864.
1 The same arms as are here painted appear on Fletcher's tomb at Yarnton,
and in one of the windows which were put up by him there is a skull and cross-
bones with the motto Disce mori. I owe this information to the kindness of the
Vicar of Yarnton, the Rev. E. P. Baverstock. The curious old-fashioned wig is
seen in a caricature of Fletcher by Deighton, dated 1808. I can find nothing
concerning the gift of the portrait in the Minutes of the Town Council nor in their
accounts.
3 The Minutes of the Town Council record the arrival of this portrait from the
'artist Mr. West'.
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765 JAMES HUGHES
William Carter.
B. 1817, at Charndon, Bucks. ; came to Oxford, 1837 ; Councillor,
1859 ; Mayor, 1864, 1869, 1883, 1884, 1886, and 1889 ; d. 1895.
Three-quarters length, seated to 1. in a leather arm-chair, his head
turned towards the spectator ; white hair, moustache and short
beard ; white collar and shirt cuffs ; scarlet, black velvet, and
fur mayor's robe over dark clothes ; gold chain of office round
neck ; his 1. hand holds out a letter, his r. rests on arm of chair.
Canvas 56 x 44 in.
The tablet on frame is inscribed : ' Presented to Alderman James
Hughes J.P., in his sixth mayoralty by his fellow citizens and
friends as a mark of their appreciation of his distinguished and
generous services in various municipal offices during a period of
31 years, October 1890.'
Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1890.
766 JAMES RICHARD BANTING
B. 1824 ; Councillor, 1872 ; d. 1905.
Half length, seated facing the spectator ; grey hair and whiskers ;
standing collar, white shirt, black tie ; alderman's gown over
dark clothes ; his r. hand rests on arm of chair, his 1. holds cocked
hat against side ; grey background. Canvas 19 X 15 in., water-
colour over photograph.
Tablet inscribed : JAMES RICHARD BANTING ALDERMAN OF OXFORD
BORN APRIL 21, 1824, DIED MAY 20, 1905. PRESENTED TO THE COR-
PORATION BY HIS FAMILY, DEC. 11, 1905.
256
257
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PORTRAITS IN THE COUNTY HALL
767
WILLIAM HENRY ASHURST
Henry Perronet Briggs*
B. 1779 ; educated at Worcester College, B.A. 1798 ; of the Man-
sion House, Great Milton ; High Sheriff and D.C.L. 1810 ; M.P.
for the County, 1815-1830 ; Chairman of Quarter Sessions,,
1822 ; d. 1846.
Whole length, seated to 1. in a red leather arm-chair ; head a little
bald ; brown hair and slight whiskers ; white collar, neck-cloth,
and shirt ; dark clothes ; both hands held lightly together, the
elbows supported on the arms of the chair ; red curtains and
architectural background ; to r. a table covered with a turkey
cover on which are inkstand and papers. Canvas 91 x 57 in.
Shields of arms with mottoes at the lower corners of the frame ;
and the name and date, BRIGGS R.A. 1840 ; the tablet is inscribed
WILLIAM HENRY ASHURST ESQ. M.P. FOR THE COUNTY OF OXFORD FROM
1815-1830 ; AND CHAIRMAN OF THE QUARTER SESSIONS FROM 1822-1846 ;
DIED 3BD JUNE 1846 AGED 68 YEARS.
The portrait was subscribed for and presented by the Magistrates
of the County on the completion of the building of the County
Hall.
Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1841, as 'painted for the
Grand Jury Room of the New County Courts \
768 HUGH HAMERSLE-Y
Robert Antoine Mutter.
B. 1818 (?), of Pyrton Manor ; educated at Trinity College, Cam-
bridge ; J.P. 1888 ; High Sheriff, 1840 ; Chairman of Quarter
Sessions, 1864-78 ; d. 1884.
Almost whole length, standing facing the spectator ; white hair
and whiskers ; standing collar ; white shirt ; black and white
spotted tie ; black coat, dark grey trousers ; gold watch-chain ;
his 1. hand rests on book which with ink-pot and other books are
seen on library table to r., his r. holds a folded paper ; warm
890 T
258 PORTRAITS IN
brown background, a chair to 1. ; signed ROBERT A. MULLER 1881.
Canvas 61 x 43^ in.
The tablet on frame is inscribed : HUGH HAMERSLEY ESQUIRE CHAIR-
MAN OF QUARTER SESSIONS 1864-1878 DEPUTY CHAIRMAN 1854-1864.
The portrait was subscribed for and presented by the Magistrates
of the County.
769 JOSEPH WARNER HENLEY
Sir Francis Grant.
B. 1793 ; Gentleman-Commoner of Magdalen College ; B.A. 1815 ;
J.P. 1819, of Waterperry House ; M.P. for the county, 1841-
78; President of the Board of Trade, in the Cabinet, 1852 and
1859 ; Chairman of Quarter Sessions, 1846-64 ; D.C.L. 1854 ;
d. 1884.
Whole length, seated in an armchair, facing the spectator ; dark
hair, greyish whiskers ; brown tie ; white shirt and waistcoat ;
dark clothes and high boots ; black eyeglass-cord round neck ;
his r. hand holds papers on his knee ; his 1. supports his cheek,
the elbow resting on arm of chair ; grey architectural back-
ground ; a fire-place to 1. ; library table with papers and books
to r., against the leg of this lean books labelled County of Oxford
Registration Vol. and Reports. Canvas 93 x 57 in.
On the lower corners of the frame are shields of arms and mottoes
and F. GRANT R. A. 1860. The tablet is inscribed : RIGHT HON. JOSEPH
WARNER HENLEY, M.P. FOR THE COUNTY OF OXFORD FROM 1841 to
1878, AND CHAIRMAN OF QUARTER SESSIONS FROM 1846 TO 1863.
The portrait was subscribed for and presented by the Magistrates
of the County.
Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1860.
770 CHARLES EDWARD THORNHILL
William Carter.
B. 1817 ; of Woodleys, near Woodstock ; educated at Christ
Church ; Barrister of Lincoln's Inn ; helped much to promote
the Volunteer Movement ; Chairman of Quarter Sessions, 1878-
94 ; d. 1904.
Three-quarters length, seated to 1., his legs crossed, in a wooden
arm-chair, the head almost facing the spectator ; grey hair and
whiskers; white collar and shirt; black tie; black coat and
waistcoat, light grey trousers ; gold watch-chain ; his r. hand
THE COUNTY HALL
259
holds papers, his 1. his eyeglass on his chest ; dark curtain
background ; table with ink-pot, pen, and papers to 1. Canvas
48 x 39| in.
The tablet is inscribed with name of subject and CHAIRMAN OF
QUARTER SESSIONS 1878—1894, DEPUTY CHAIRMAN 1864—1878.
The portrait was subscribed for and presented by the Magistrates
of the County.
Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1888.
INDEX OF PORTRAITS
CATALOGUED AND REFERRED TO
[An asterisk is prefixed to the portraits reproduced in this volume.]
Abel, Karl Friederich, 162
Abercorn, John Hamilton, ? first
Marquess of, 207
• — , Louisa Jane, Marchioness of, 216
Abernethy, John, 207
Abingdon, James Bertie, Earl of,
two portraits, 138, 139, 248
*Acland, Henry Wentworth, three
portraits, 125, 203, 238, PI. 36
Addison, Joseph, 85
Queen Adelaide, two portraits, 147,
207
Albany, Prince Leopold, Duke of,124
*Albert Edward, Prince of Wales,
150, PI. 22
Albert, Prince Consort of England,
234
Alcock, Thomas, 177
Aldrich, George Oakley, 111 and w,
— , Henry, two portraits, 78
Alexander I, Tsar of Russia, 144
Allen, Thomas, 38
Allestree, Richard, 64
Anderson, James, two portraits, 207
Andrewes, Lancelot, two portraits,
34,35
Anglesey, Henry William Paget,
first Marquess of, 207
Queen Anne, three portraits, 80, 135,
206,249
Queen Anne of Denmark, 206
Anstis, John, 129
Arran, Charles Butler, Earl of, 141
Artists, an Assembly of, 187
Arundel, Thomas Howard, second
Earl of, 173
*Ashmole, Elias, two portraits, 184,
PL 27
Ashurst, William Henry, 257
890
*Atterbury, Francis, 94, PL 16
* Aubrey, John, 185, PL 27
Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex
196
Babington, Stephen, 208
Bagford, John, 84
Bainbridge, John, xi, 41
Baker, Thomas, 96
Bala Rama Varma, Maharaja of
Travancore, 242
Balliol, John of, 1
Balzac, Jean Louis Guez de (?), 49
Bandinel, Bulkeley, 120
Banks, Sir Joseph, two portraits, 208
Banting, James Richard, 256
*Barlow, Thomas, 69, PL 8
Barrington, Shute, three portraits,
116, 208
Bathurst, Henry, 208
— , Ralph, 206
— , Seymour Thomas, 208
Beaufort, the Lady Margaret, 7
Bedford, Katherine Brydges, Coun-
tess of (?), 174
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 117
Benlowes, Edward, 42, 129
Bentinck, William Henry Cavendish,
Duke of Portland, 143
Bentivoglio, Cardinal, 130
Bernard, Claude, 236
— , Montague, 123
Berry, Charles Ferdinand, Due de
two portraits, 194, 195
Bertie, James, Earl of Abingdon 9
two portraits, 138, 139, 248
Beveridge, William, 77
Beverland, Adrian, 79
262
INDEX Ol< PORTRAITS
Bhagvat Sinji Thakur, Sahib of
Gondal, 243
Bird, Edward, 208
Blackburne, Lancelot, 130
Blackstone, Sir William, three por-
traits, xix, n., 107, 108
Blagrave, Thomas, xii, 156
Blathwayt, John, 159
Bliss, Philip, 136
Blizard, Sir William, 208
Bobart, Jacob, the younger, 222
Bochart, Samuel, 53
Bodley, George Frederick, 128
*Bodley, Sir Thomas, five portraits,
x, 28, 29, Frontispiece
Bogan, Zachary, 245
Bohemia, Frederick V, King of, 38
Bonington, Richard Parkes, 195
*Bouchier, Thomas (?), 89, PI. 15
Boulton, Mary Anne, 208
Bowles, Joseph, 93
Boyce, William, 162
Bradford, Mary Anne, Lady, 208
Bradley, James, 104
Braganza, Queen Catherine of, 75
Brahe, Tycho, 22, 85 n.
Brassey, Thomas, first Earl, 242
Brentford, Patrick Ruthven, Earl of,
44, 129
Bridecake, Ralph, xxviii, n.
Bridgman, Charles, 187, 188
Brodie, Sir Benjamin Collins, 235
Bromley, William, the Speaker, 140
— , William, the younger, 96
Brongniart, Alexandre, 233
Browne, Sir Thomas, 64
Brydges, Katherine, Countess of
Bedford, 174
Buchanan, George (?), 16
Buckingham, John Sheffield, Duke
of, 140
Buckland, William, two portraits,
233, 234
Bull, John, 152
Burck, Michael, 178
Burdett, Sir Francis, 209
Burdon-Sanderson, Sir John Scott,
two portraits, 238, 239
*Burghley, William Cecil, Lord,
xvi, xviii, two portraits, 15, PI. 1
Burney, Charles, xii, xvi, 112, 137,
193, 194
Burton, Charles (?), 209
— , Edward, 118
Butler, Charles, Earl of Arran, 141
* Butler, James, first Duke of Or-
monde, two portraits, xiv, 66 and
n., 132, 133, 141, PL 12
— , James, second Duke of Ormonde,
141
*— , Samuel, two portraits, 62, PI. 9
Camden, J. J. Pratt, first Marquess.
209
— , William, xi, 32
Canning, George, three portraits, 209
Carlingford, Chichester Fortescue,
Lord, 137, 149
Cary, Lucius, Lord Falkland, 42
Casaubon, Isaac, xviii, 30
— , Meric, xviii, 56, 57
Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Vis-
count, 209
Queen Catherine of Braganza, 75
Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 110
Cave, Hon. Robert Otway, 209
* Cecil, Sir William, Lord Burghley,
xvi, xviii, two portraits, 15, PI. 1
Chambers, Sir Robert, 92
Chardin, Sir John, 186
*King Charles I, six portraits, x, xiv,
44, 45, 46, 173, 174, PI. 7
King Charles II, three portraits, 64,
65 and n., 183
Charles XII, King of Sweden, 139
Charleton, Walter, 76
Chaucer, Geoffrey, two portraits, 4, &
Cherry, Francis, 80
Chichele, Henry, 6
Child, William, xii, 157
*Churchill, John, Duke of Marlbor-
ough, two portraits, xvi, 88, 249
PI. 12.
Clarendon, Edward Hyde, first Earl
of, two portraits, 58, 135
Clarke, Sir Charles Mansfield, 209
— , Samuel, the Orientalist, 55
— , Samuel, Court Chaplain, 93
Cline, Henry, 209
Clive, Robert, Lord, 240
Codrington, Sir Edward, 209
Colebrooke, Henry Thomas, 209
Collins, Charles Allston, 199
— , John Churton, 127
INDEX OF PORTRAITS
Columbus, Christopher, 130, 168 n.
Combe, Mrs. Martha, 200
*— Thomas, three portraits, 198, 199,
PI. 30
Conny, Robert, 88 and »., 89
Cookes, Sir Thomas, 72
Cooper, Anthony Ashley, Earl of
Shaftesbury, 130
Corelli, Arcangelo, 157
Cottington, Francis, Lord, 47
Coutts, Thomas, 209
Cowley, Abraham, three portraits, 54
Cowper, Henry, 209
— , William, Earl, 88
Coxe, Henry Octavius, two portraits,
122
Cranmer, Thomas (?), 14
Creech, Thomas, 72
Crew, Nathaniel, Lord, four portraits,
xv, xviii, 86, 87, 133, 158
*Croft, William, 158, PI. 23
Cromwell, Oliver, mask, 206
— , Thomas, 11
*Cumberland, George Clifford, Earl
of, 24, PI. 2 *
* — , Margaret Clifford, Countess of,
30, PL 2
Curran, John Philpot, 209
Curtis, Sir William, 210
Cuvier, George C. Leopold, Baron,
two portraits, 232
Dahl, Michael, 187
Dalton, John, two portraits, 210
Darwin, Charles Robert, 237
Daubeny, Charles Giles Bridle, 224
Dawnay, William Henry (?), seventh
Viscount Downe, 210
De Critz, Oliver, xxiv, xxvi, 182
Dee, John, 169
Demainbray, Stephen Charles Tri-
boudet, 227
de Neve, Cornelius, xxiv, 178
Derby, Edward Geoffrey Smith
Stanley, Earl of, xi, 148
Derham, William, 95
Devorguilla, 2
Digby, Charlotte Elizabeth, 210
* — , Sir Kenelm, four portraits, 52,
53, PI. 4
Dillenius, John James, 99, 223
Dodwell, Henry, 78, 79
Dolben, Sir Gilbert, 87
Dolben, Sir William, 143
Dorset, Charles Sackville, Earl of, 76
Dorset, Thomas Sackville, Earl of, 25
Douce, Francis, 117
Douglas, James, 194
Downe, William Henry Dawnay,
seventh Viscount (?), 210
*Drake, Sir Francis (?), 168, PL 24
Dryden, John, two portraits, 71, 72
Duckworth, Sir John Thomas, 210
Dudley, Robert, Earl of Leicester,
19
*Dugdale, Sir William, 65, PL 10
Duncan, John Shute, two portraits,
196, 227
— , Philip Bury, 197
Dundas, Henry, first Viscount Mel-
ville, 214
— , Robert of Arniston, two portraits ,
210
— , (?) Thomas, first Baron, of Aske,
210
Dunlop, James, 210
Duns Scotus, xiv, 3
East, Sir Edward Hyde, 210
Edward Augustus, Duke of York,
190
King Edward 11, 4
King Edward, IV, 206
*King Edward VHas Prince of Wales,
150, PL 22
Effingham, Lord Charles Howard
of(?), 169
Egerton, (?) Charles Chandler, 210
— , Thomas, Lord Ellesmere, 31
Eglesfield, Robert of, 4
Egremont, George Wyndham, third
Earl, 211,
Eiffert, J. Philip, 161 and n.
Eldon, John Scott, Lord, 131
Queen Elizabeth, two portraits, 23,
24
Elizabeth, Princess Palatine, 63
Queen Elizabeth Woodville, 167
Elphinstone, Mountstuart, two por-
traits, 211
Englefield, Sir Henry Charles, 211
Erasmus, three portraits, xiii, n. , 10,
11,53
* Evans, Sir Arthur John, 205, PL 32
264
INDEX OF PORTRAITS
Fairchild, Thomas, 223
Falkland, Lucius Cary, Lord, 42, 63
Faraday, Michael, 235
Farnborough, Charles Long, Lord,
211
Fermor, Thomas, Earl of Pomfret,
two portraits, 188, 189
Finch, Robert (?), two portraits, 220
— , Robert Poole, 136
— , Thomas, 220
Fiske, Nicholas, 179
Fitzgerald, Gerald, Earl of Kildare,
9
Fitzroy, Charles, second Duke of
Grafton, 189, 190
Flamsteed, John, xi, 85 and n.
Fleming, Richard, 6
— , Robert, the younger, 83
*Fletcher, William, two portraits , 117,
254, 255 and n., PI. 37
Flexney, Ralph, 244
Forbes, Sir Charles, 211
Fortescue, Chichester, Lord Car-
lingford, 137, 149
— , Sir John, 25
*Fortnum, Charles Drury Edward,
four portraits, 201, 202, PI. 31
Fox, Richard, 8
Foxe, John, 17
France, Henry IV, King of, 129, 206
— , John, King of, 206
— , Lewis XI, King of, 206
Franklin, Benjamin, 109
Frederick V, Elector Palatine, 38
Frederick the Great, King of Prussia,
109
Frederick William I, King of Prussia,
140, 141
Frederick William III, King of
Prussia, 146
Freind, John, 92
Freke, William, 50
*Frewin, Richard, 226, PI*. 35
Froben, John, 8
Frobisher, Sir Martin, xiii, 20
Fuller, Isaac, 57
— , John, 211
*Galilei, Galileo, xi, 41, PI. 5
Gardiner, Stephen, 14
Garrick, David, 190
Gassendi, Pierre, 50
Gates, Bernard, 161
King George III, three portraits, 144,
194, 211
King George IV, three portraits. 145,
211
Gibbons, Christopher, xii, 155
— , Orlando, 151
-, <?), 187
*Gibbs, James, three portraits, xvi,
102, 226, PI. 35
Gibson, Edmund, two portraits, 100,
101
Gilbert, Dr. William, 129
Gillespie, Sir Robert Rollo, 211
Gladstone, William Ewart, 125
Glisson, Francis, 60
Gloucester, Henry, Duke of, 186
Godsalve, Sir John, 130
Gondal, Sir Bhagvat Sinji Thakur,
Sahib of, 243
Gower, John, 5
Grafton, Charles Fitzroy, second
Duke of, 189, 190
Grattan, Henry, 211
Gregory, William, 154
Grenville, William Wyndham, Lord,
145
Grey, Lady Jane, xiii, 13
Griffenfeld, Peter Schumacher,
Count of, 71
Grotius, Hugo, xiii, n., 46
Grosvenor, Robert, first Marquess of
Westminster, 219
Guilford, Frederick North, Earl of,
two portraits, 110
Haak, Theodore, 67
Hale, Sir Matthew, 60
*— , Richard, xi, 92, PL 14
Halford, Sir Henry, 211
*Hall, Chambers, two portraits, 197,
PL 29
*Halley, Edmund, xi, 97, PL 16
Hamersley, Hugh, 257
Hamey, Baldwin, 59
Hamilton, James Marquess of Aber-
corn, 207
— , Sir William, 193
-,-(?), 187
Hamond, Sir Andrew Snape, 211
Handel, George Frederick, two por-
traits, xviii, 103, 160
INDEX OF PORTRAITS
265
Harcourt, William Vernon, 211
Harmer, John (?), 56
Harpesfeld, Nicholas (?), 16
Harrington, Anne, Lady Molyneux,
172
Harris, John (?), 247
Harvey, William, 51, 231
Hatchett, Charles, 212
Hawkins, Sir John, 21
* — , Sir John (the Musician), 162,
PL 23
— , Richard, xxviii, 247
Hayes, Philip, 163
— , William, 161, 162, 165
Hazlitt, William, 129
Hearne, Thomas, 95
Heather, Dr. William, xii, 137, 151,
152
Heber, Reginald, three portraits, 212
Henley, Joseph Warner, 258
Queen Henrietta Maria, 45. 55
King Henry VIII, 13
Henry IV, King of France, 129, 206
*Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales,
two portraits, xvi, 27, 45, PL 4
Henry, Dr., (?) James, 212
Herbert, James, 251
*— , Philip, 250 and n., PL 37
— , Robert Henry, twelfth Earl
of Pembroke, 197
* — , William, third Earl of Pembroke,
three portraits, 37, 38, PL 6
Herries, Colonel, 212
Hertford, Francis Seymour-Conway,
second Marquess, two portraits,
212
Hervey, Theodosia Louisa, Countess
of Liverpool, 214
Heseltine, James, 160
*Hevelius, Johannes Hewelke, called,
66, PL 5
Hey, William, 212
Hickes, George, 82
Hilton, John, 153
Hine, John, 159
Kingston, John, xii, 156
Hitchings, Sir Edward, 254
Hobhouse, Sir Benjamin, 212
Hodgson, Brian Houghton, 241
Hody, Humphry, 76
Home, Sir Everard, 212
Hope, Mrs. Ellen, 122
Hope, Frederick William, two por-
traits, 121, 234
Horner, Francis, two portraits., 212
Hough, John, 97
Howard, Charles, Lord, of Effing-
ham, 169
— , Henry, Earl of Surrey, 13
— , Philip Thomas, Cardinal, 69
— , Thomas, second Earl of Arundel,
173
— , Thomas, fifth Duke of Norfolk,
180
Howley, William, 213
Hudson, George, 153
— , John, 86
Hughes, James, 256
Hume, David, 213
*Hunt, William Holman, 204, PL 30
Hunter, John, 213
— , Sir William Wilson, 241
Hyde, Edward, first Earl of Claren-
don, two portraits, 58, 135
— , James, 92, 130
— , Lawrence, Earl of Rochester, 79
— , Thomas, 73
Inglis, Sir Hugh, 213
— , Sir Robert Harry, 148
"Ireland, John, 118, 119, 212, PL 19
Jackson, Cyril, 213
King James I, 34, 206
King James II, three portraits, 72,
185, 248
James Francis Edward Stuart, ' the
Old Pretender', 104
* James, Thomas, x, 36, PL 8
Jane, William, two portraits, 77
Jeffreys, Henrietta Louisa, Countess
of Pomfret, two portraits, 188, 189
Jermyn Henry, Earl of St. Albans,
42
Jervis, John, Earl St. Vincent, 217
John; King of France, 206
Johnson, Manuel John, 228
Joinville, Fra^ois, Prince de, 203
Johnes, Thomas, 213
Johnstone, Edward, 213
Jones, Inigo (?), 174
Jonson, Ben, 40, 129
Jordan, Dorothy Bland, Mrs. , 213
Jowett, Benjamin, 125
266
INDEX OF PORTRAITS
Junius, Francis, 61
Kemble, John Philip, 116
Kent, William, 187, 188
Kerr, William, Marquess of Lothian,
121
Kidd, John, 233
Kildare, Earl of, 9
King, John, 96
— , Walter, 213
*— , William, 104, PI. 16
*Kneller, Sir Godfrey, 89, PI. 14
Kristo Das, Pal, 240
Lamb, William, second Viscount
Melbourne, 214
Langston, James Houghton, 255
Lanier, Nicholas, xii, 137, 154
Laroon, Marcellus, 187, 188
Lasher, Joshua, xi, 93
Lassus, Orlando, ,151
Latreille, Pierre Andre, 232
Laud, Archbishop, three portraits, xv,
43, 135
Lawes, Henry, xii, 137, 153
-, William, 152
Le Courayer, Pierre Francois, 106
Leicester, Robert Dudley, Earl of, 19
Lens, Bernard, 188
Leopold, Prince, Duke of Albany,
124
Levison-Gower, George Granville,
second Duke of Sutherland, 218
Lewie XI, King of France, 206
Lichfield, George Henry, Earl of, two
portraits, xv, 142, 229
Liddell, Henry George, 201
Lilly, William, 183
Linacre, Thomas (?), 231
Linnaeus, Carolus, 223, 232
Liverpool, Theodosia Louisa, Coun-
tess of, 214
Lock, Matthew, xii, 156
Locke, John, two portraits, xv, 74,
75 and n.
*Lockey, Thomas, 61, PL 8
Londonderry, Robert Stewart, second
Marquess, 209
Long, Sir Charles, Lord Farn-
borough, 211
Lothian, William Kerr, Marquess of,
121
Louise, Queen of Prussia, 112
Lowin, John, 175
Luther, Martin, 7
Lye, Edward, 105
Macdonald, Alexander, 204
— , Flora, 109
' Mackenzie,' 214
*Mackenzie, Sir George, xv,68, PI. 10
Maconochie, Alexander, second Lord
Meadowbank, 214
*Macray, William Dunn, xx, 128,
PI. 21
Malcolm, Sir John, two portraits, 214
Manchester, Edward Montague, Earl
of, 180
Maria Clementina Sobieska, 94
Marlborough,George Spencer, fourth
Duke of, 253
* — , John, first Duke of, two por-
traits, xvi, 88, 249, PI. 12
— , John Winston Spencer Churchill,
eighth Duke of, 230
Marnix, Philip, Seigneur de St.
Aldegonde (?) 21
Marshall, Dr. Thomas, 130
Queen Mary, I, 167
Queen Mary II, 138
*Queen Mary of Modena, 84, PI. 12
Mary Queen of Scots, xvi, 18
*Mason, George, 108, PI. 17
Maton, William George, 224
Mayerne, Sir Theodore Turguet der
50
Maynard, Sir John, xxvi
Mead, Richard, xviii, 103
Meadowbank, Alexander Macono-
chie, second -Lord, 214
Melbourne, William Lamb, second
Viscount, 214
Melville, Henry Dundas, first
Viscount, 214
Merton, Walter of, 1
Mill, William H., 214
*Millais, Sir John Everett, two por-
traits, 201, PL 30
* Modena, Queen Mary of, 84, PI. 12
Molyneux, Anne Harrington, Lady,
Monier Williams, Sir Monier, 241
Montagu, Edward, Earl of Man-
chester, 180
INDEX OF PORTRAITS
267
Montaigne, Michel de, 20
More, Sir Thomas, 10
Morison, Robert, 222
Morrison, James, 214
Mudge, Zachary, 214
Mundy, < Miss,' 214
Munro, Sir Thomas, 214
Murdock, Willliam (?), 215
Napier, Richard, 170
*Napoleon I, three portraits, 113, 114,
PI. 18
Nassau-Si egen, John Maurice, Count
of, 183
Neeld, Joseph, 215
Negri, Solomon, 129
Nelson, Horatio, first Vicount, 215
— , Robert, 83
Netherlands, Queen Wilhelmina of,
205,
Neubauer, Adolf, 126
Newton, Sir Charles Thomas, 200
— , Sir Isaac, 91
— , Richard (?), 102 and n., PI. 15
Neyen, Jean, 27
Nicholl, Sir John, 215
Nixon, Joan, xxvii, 247
— , John, xxvii, 246
Nollekens, Joseph, 215
Norfolk, Th omas Howard, fifth Duke
of, 18
North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford,
two portraits, xvi, 110
Northcote, James, two portraits, 215
Nowell, Alexander, 23
Nugent, ' Lady/ 215
Ogilby, John, xiii, 59
Orange Nassau, Frederick Henry,
Prince of, 43, 44
Orange-Nassau, Maurice Prince of,
xiii n., 44, 129
Orange, William of Nassau, Prince
of, 17
Orleans, Charles Ferdinand, Due de-
Berry, two portraits, 194-5
— , Clementine, Princess of, 204
— , Francois, Prince de Joinville,
203
Ormerod, George, 122
* Ormonde, James Butler, first Duke
of, two portraits, xiv, 66 and n.,
132, 141, PI. 12
— , second Duke, 141
Ouseley,Sir F. A. Gore, 164, and ».
*Overbury, Sir Thomas xviii, 30, PI. 4
Oxenstierna, Count Axel, 130, 184
Pack, Sir Denis, 215
Paget, Henry William, first Mar-
quess of Anglesey, 207
*Paine, James, 192, PL 28
::— , James, junior, 192, PI. 28
Palatine, Elizabeth, Princess, 63
— , Frederick V, Elector, 38
Palmer, Peregrine, 142
Paracelsus, 12
Parker, Martha, Countess St. Vin-
cent, 218
Parr, Thomas, 166, 170, 171
*Parsons, Sir William, 164, PL 23
Pell, Walter, xxviii, n.
Pembroke, Robert Henry Herbert,
Earl of, 197
*—} William Herbert, Earl of, three
portraits, 37, 38, PL 6
Pepusch, John Christopher, 160
Perkins, ' Mr.,' 215
*Philip II, King of Spain, PL 2
Phillips, John, 235
— , Thomas, 215
Phillpotts, Henry, 198
Pilatre de Rozier, Jean Fra^ois, 191
Pitt, William, two portraits, 215
Playfair, John, 215
Plot, Robert, 70, 185
Plunket, Oliver, 63
Pococke, Edward, two portraits, xv,
68
Pomfret, Henrietta Louisa, Countess
of, two portraits, 188, 189
— , Thomas Fermor, Earl of, two
portraits, 188, 189
Pope, Alexander, 98
— , George, Uglow, 242
— , Sir Thomas, 14
Person, Richard, 216
Portland, Jerome Weston, Earl of,
39
— , Richard Weston, Earl of, 39
— , William Henry Cavendish Ben-
tinck, Duke of, 143
Potter, John xv, xviii, 100
268
INDEX OF PORTRAITS
Powlett, Lady Elizabeth, 177
Pownall, Captain Philemon, 191
Pratt, John J., first Marquess
Camden, 209
Prestwich, Sir Joseph, two portraits,
237, 238
Price, Bartholomew, 125
Prior, Matthew, 87
Prussia, Frederick William I, King
of, 140, 141
— , Frederick the Great, King of,
109
— , Frederick William III, King of,
146
— , Louise, Queen of, 112
— , William II, King of, Emperor,
150
Prynne, William (?), 55
*Pullen, Josiah, 81, PI. 11
Purcell, Henry, 165
*Radcliffe, Dr. John, four portraits,
xvi, 81, 225, 226, 228, PI. 34
Raffles, Sir Thomas Stamford, 216
Randolph, Francis, 192
Rawlinson, Richard, 103
Raymond, Robert, Lord, 94
Read, David Charles, 196
Reaumur, Rene' Antoine F. de, 231
Reeks, Jennie, 2
Reinagle, Ramsay Richard, 129
Rennie, John, 216
*Ribaut, Jean (?), 168, PI. 24
Richardson, Jonathan the Elder, 98
Richelieu, Cardinal, 206
* Richmond and Lennox, Frances,
Duchess of (?), 19, PI. 2
Rigaud, Stephen Peter, 228
Robertson, Frederick William, 119,
129
Rochester, Laurence Hyde, Earl of,
79
Rolleston, George, 236
Roscoe, William, 216
Romain, Pierre, 191
Rosetti, Dante Gabriel, 199
Rouse, John, 48
Routh, Martin Joseph, 120
Rowney, Thomas, the Elder, 250,
262
— , Thomas, the younger, three
portraits, 229, 253 and «., 252
*Ruskin, John, two portraits, 202,
203, PI. 31
Russell , Sir Henry, 216
Russell, Louisa Jane, Lady, 216
Russia, Alexander I, Emperor of ,144
— , Catherine, Empress of, 110
Ruth ven, Patrick, Earl of Brentford,
44, 129
Ryder, Henry, 216
Rysbrack, John Michael, 187, PI. 23
Sackville,Charles, Earl of Dorset, 76
— , Thomas, Earl of Dorset, 25
Sadler, C. J. 255
* Salomon, Johann Peter, 163, PL 23
*Sarpi, Paolo, xi, 35, PL 5
*Savile, Sir Henry, x, xi and n., xiv,
32, 227, PI. 3
Saxe- Weimar, Princess Louisa Wil-
helma Adelaide of, 216
* Scaliger , Joseph Justus, two portraits,
26, PI. 5
Schmidt, Bernhard, 157
Scott, John, 217
— , John, Lord Eldon, 131
— , Sir Walter, three portraits, 195,
216
— , William, Lord Stowell, 131
Selden, John, four portraits, xiv, 48,
49, 179
Seymour-Conway, Francis, second
Marquess of Hertford, 212
Sharp, William, 217
Sharpey, William, 236
Sheffield, John, Duke of Bucking-
ham, 140
Sheldon, Gilbert, two portraits, 60
and n., 132
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 119
— , P. B., three portraits, xx, 115
Sherard, William (?), 222
*Shirley, James, 53, PL 9
Sibbes, Richard, 39
Sibthorp, John, 224
Sidney, Sir Philip, 17
Silsbee, Edward Augustus, 126
Simpson, Christopher, 155
Sloane Sir Hans, xv, 101
Smith, Gold win, two portraits, 127
— , Henry John Stephen, 237
— , John Raphael, 217
— , Bishop William, 8
INDEX OF PORTRAITS
Smith, William, 233
Soane, Sir John, 217
Sobieska, Maria Clementina, 94
Somerville, Mrs. Mary, 217
*South, Robert, 84, PI. 11
Southey, Robert, 217
Speed, John, 36
Spelman, Sir Henry, 129
Spencer, George, fourth Duke of
Marlborough, 253
— , George John, second Earl, 217
Spencer-Churchill, John Winston,
eighth Duke of Marlborough, 230
Sprat, Thomas, Archdeacon of
Rochester, 82
— , Thomas, Bishop of Rochester, 2
Stainer, Sir John, 164
St. Albans, Henry Jermyn, Earl of,
42
St. Vincent, John Jervis, Earl, 217
— , Martha Parker, Countess, 218
*Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn, 123, PL
20
— , Edward Geoffrey Smith, Earl
of Derby, 148
— , Sir Thomas, xxvi
Stanhope, Lady Frederica, 217
Stapeldon, Walter of, 3
Stewart, Robert, Viscount Castle-
reagh, 209
Stothard, Thomas, 217
Stowell, William Scott, Lord, 131
Stratford, Thomas Wentworth, Earl
of, 40
Strutt, Joseph, 217
Stuart, Clementina, wife of the Old
Pretender, 94
— , James Edward , the old Pretender,
xiii n. 3 104
— , Mary, Queen of Scots, two por-
traits, 18
— , William, 217
*Stubbs, William, 126, PL 21
'Suckling, Sir John, 172, PL 25
Sussex , Augustus Frederick , Duke of,
two portraits, 196, 218
Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of, 13
* Sutherland, Alexander Hendras, two
portraits, 112, 113, PL 18
— , Mrs. Frances, 112
— , George Granville Levison-
Gower, second Duke, 218
Sutton, Charles Manners, 218
Sweden, Charles XII of, 139
*Swift, Jonathan, 98, 99, PL 16
Sydenham, Thomas, 67, 231
Taunton, Sir William Ellias,253, 254
Taylor, George Watson, 218
— , John, the Water-Poet, xxvii, 48
*— , John, the Painter, xxvii, 81, PL
10
*— , Sir Robert, 220, PI. 33
Tesdale, Thomas, 27
Thornhill, Charles Edward, 258, 259
Tierney, Sir Matthew, 218
Tomkins, Thomas, 218
*Tomlins, Richard, 47, PL 4
Tooke, John Home, 218
Torelli, Joseph, 108
Trapp, Joseph, 100
Tradescant, Hester, three portraits,
xxiii, xxiv, 176, 177, 180, 181
— , Frances, two portraits, 181, 182
* — , John, the elder, three portraits,
171, PL 25
* — , John, the younger, three por-
traits, xxiii, xxvi, 175, 176, PL 26
— , John, the third, three portraits,
xxiv, 174, 180, 181
— (?), Unknown Lady, probably of
the family of, 182
Travancore, Bala Rama Varma,
Maharaja of, 242
Treacher, Sir John, 252, 253
Tromp, Admiral, 130
Tudway, Thomas, 62, 158
Unknown Cavalier, 42
Unknown Doctor, 229
Unknown Geometrician, Italian
School, 170
Unknown Lady, Anglo-Flemish School,
169
* Unknown Lady of the Sixteenth
Century, 19," PL 2
Unknown Man,(?) Alderman Harris,
247
Unknown Men, (?) Dutch School, 44,
46
Unknown Man, English School, 174
Unknown Man, Italian School, 170
Unknown Man, called Duke of Mon-
mouth, 70
270
INDEX OF PORTRAITS
Unknown Man, School of Philippe de
Champaigne, 177
Unknown Man, School of Sir Peter
Lely, 179
* Unknown Navigator, 168, PL 24
* Unknown Man, by Rysbrack, 226,
PI. 36
*Ussher, James, 51, PL 8
Vanderbank, John, 187
Vaughan, Richard, 24
Vernon, f Mrs/ 218
Queen Victoria, 218
Vigfusson, Gudbrandr, 124
Wadham, Dorothy, 31
Wadham Nicholas, 26
Walker, Robert, 175
Wall, John, xxvii, 246
Waller, Edmund, 65
Wallis, John, xiv, xv, 70 n., 74 and
w.,227
Walter, Sir John, 250 •
Wanley, Humphrey, two portraits, 90
— , Nathaniel, 62, 159
Ward, Sir Patience, xxviii, n.
Warner, John, xxvii
Warp, < Mr. ,'218
Warton, Joseph, 193
Washington, George, two portraits,
111, 218
Watt, James, two portraits, 219
Watts, David Pike, 218
Watts-Russell, Maria, 219
Waynflete, William, two portraits,
xxvii, 6, 7
Weichmann, Christian Frederick,
105
Weldon, John, 159 and n.
— , Walter Frank Raphael, 239
Wellesley, Henry, two portraits, 198,
221
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke
of, four portraits, 119, 147, 219
Wentworth, Thomas, Earl of Straf-
ford, 40
West, Benjamin, 219
Westminster, Robert Grosvenor,
first Marquess of, 219
Weston, Jerome,Earl of Portland, 39
— , Richard, Earl of, 39
Westwood, John Obadiah, 200, 237
Whartori, Thomas, 130
White, Joseph, 129
— , Thomas, 33
— , Sir Thomas, two portraits, xi,
xxviii, n., 15, 244
Wightwick, Richard, 36
Wilhelmina, Queen of the Nether-
lands, 205
Wilkins, John, 57
King William III,xviii, two portraits,
139, 186
King William IV, two portraits, 146,
219
William II, Emperor of Germany,
137, 150
*Williams, Edward Ellerker, 116,
PL 18
Williamson, Sir Joseph, 73
Willis, Thomas, 59
Wills, John, 111
Wilson, Daniel, 120
— , Horace Hayman, 219
— , John, xii, 137, 155
Wise, Thomas, 252
Wollaston, William Hyde, 219
Wolsey, Thomas, 9, 206
*Wood, Anthony, 69, 74, PL 10
*Woodburn, Samuel, 196, PL 29
Woods, Henry George, 204, 205
Woodville, Queen Elizabeth, 167
*Woodward, Benjamin, 234, PL 29
Wordsworth, William, 219
— , mask, 206
Wotton, Sir Henry, 40, 53
Wotton of Marley, Lady, 182
— of Marley, Lord, 169 n.
*Wren, Sir Christopher, xvi, 90, 132,
133, PL 13
Wyatville, Sir Jeffry, 219
Wyatt, Sir Thomas, the Elder, 12
Wykeham, William of, 5
Wyndham, George O'Brien, third
Earl of Egremont, 211
Yarborough, Francis, 106
York, Edward Augustus, Duke of,
190
— , Frederica Charlotte, Duchess of.
219
Zabarella, Giacomo, 20
Zuccaro, Frederigo, 130, 170
Zythepsa of Lambeth, 176
II
INDEX OF ARTISTS
REPRESENTED AND REFERRED TO
[An asterisk is prefixed to the names of artists examples of whose work
are reproduced.]
Alexander, Charles, 201, 202, 241
Ashfield, Edmund, 3, 133
Augustin, Jean Baptiste Jacques,
194, 195
Bacon, John, R.A., 110, 165
Baily, Edward Hodges, R.A., 235
Bardwell, Thomas, 188
Battoni, Pompeo, 190
Beale, Mary, 54, 57, 67
*Beechey, Sir William, R.A., 163,
164
*Behnes, William, 196, 235
Bel, Rudolphe, 203, 204
Bernini, Giovanni, xxv, 173
Betts, John, 130
1 Bird, William, xxix and n.
Blarenberghe, Henri van, School of,
191
Bleeck, Richard van(?), 223
*Boehm, Sir Joseph Edgar, Bart.,
R.A.,203, 230, 237, 238
Boxall, Sir William, R.A., D.C.L.,
255
Bridges, Charles, 96, 97
Briggs, Henry Perronet, R.A., 257
Brooks, Frank, 243
*Byng, Robert, 81
*Carpentier, Adrien, 250, 251
Carter, William, 256, 258
2 Carwarden, John, 155 and n.
*Chantrey, Sir Francis, R.A., 118,
119, 195, 207-219
Cheere, Sir Henry, 58, 60, 135
Cirilotti, 202
Clint, George, A.R.A., 115, 123,
124
Closterman, John, 83
Colin, A., 195
Collier, the Hon. John, 239
*Collins, Charles Allston, 201
3 Cooper, John, 163
— , Samuel, 177
Corbet, Philip, 118
4 Cornish, John, xvii, 161
Craft, William H., 193
Curran, Amelia, 115
Dahl, Michael, 72, 81, 82, 92, 138,
140, 248
Dance-Holland, Sir Nathaniel, R. A. ,
110, 240
Dandridge, Bartholomew, 186
David d' Angers, Pierre Jean, 232
*5De Critz, Emanuell, xxiv, xxv,xxvi,
and w., 171, 176, 180, 182
— , John, son of John, xxv and n.,
xxviii
— , John, the elder, xxv and n.
D'Heere, Lucas, 13
*De Neve, Cornelius, xxiv n., 172,
178, 179
1 Not noticed by Walpole or Redgrave; flourished in Oxford 1658-87,
repaired the Selden and Arundel marbles.
2 Composer and painter, fl. c. 1640-65.
3 This artist seems not to be included in any dictionary of painters.
* Not noticed by Walpole or Redgrave.
8 For particulars of his life see Introduction, p. xxiv-vi.
272
INDEX OF ARTISTS
Dickinson, Lowes Cato, 234
1 Dindorf , 38
*Dobson, William, xxiii, xxviii, 172,
175, 181
8duBosc, P.,53
Duncan, Philip Bury, 233
3 Dunning, Goddard, 56
Dyck, Anthony van, xv, xvii, 40, 42,
43, 45, 46, 52, 53, 59, 61, 63,
173, 180
<— , A.V. 155
Easton, Reginald, 115, 119
Ewing, William, 220, 221
*Faithorne, Williani, 60, 185
Ferrers, Benjamin, 77
5 Fisher, Robert, xvii, xxviii, 155
Flaxman, John, R.A., 116
Fletcher, Margaret, 252
*•_, William, 51
Forster, Thomas, 70, 76
Foster, Arthur J., 164
Fowler, Marmaduke, 125
Fuller, Isaac, xxviii, 57, 58 and n.
Gainsborough, Thomas, R.A., 108
Gandy, William, xvi, 77
7 Geflowski, E. E., 123
Gerard, Fran9ois(?), 144
*Gheeraerts, Marcus, x, 25, 32, 46,
47
— , School of, 168
Gibson, Thomas, xv, 74, 85
*Gordon, Sir J. Watson, R.A., 150
Grant, Sir Francis, P.R. A., 148, 258
Graff, Anton, 109
Green, John, 34
Greenbury, Robert, xvii, xxviii
Grier, E. Wyly, 127
8 Griffith, James, 17
9Hallmann, M.,223
Harding (?), Sylvester, 54
Hastings, Edward, 116
*Herkomer, Sir Hubert von, C.V.O.,
R.A., 126, 164, 200 and n., 201,
203, 204, 205
Hill, Thomas, 90, 91, 129, 158
Billiard, Nicholas, School of, 29
Hogarth, William, 187
Holbein, Hans, xiii n., xv, copies
after 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Holgate, T. W.,127
Holl, Frank, R.A., 242
Hooker, Ayerst, 234
Houdon, J. A., 109,111
Howard, Hugh, 83, 157, 158
10Huddesford, George, 38, 142, 143
Hudson, Thomas, xv, 100, 103, 104 y
160, 162
Hunt, Sidney, 25
— , W. Holman, D.C.L., O.M., 198r
200
Iselin, Henri Frederic, 236
*n Jackson, Gilbert, xvii, xviii
— , John, R.A.,122
*Jacquemart, Jules, 202
Janssen Cornelius, van Ceulen or
Cornelius Johnson, xiii n., 30,
186
*Jervas, Charles, xvi, 98
Jones, Eliza, 254
12Jubber, — , 117
I No artist of this name appears to be known.
3 A member of the du Bosc family with this initial does not appear to be
otherwise known.
8 No artist of this name appears to be known.
* Otherwise unknown.
8 Only known in connexion with this portrait.
8 Only known in connexion with this portrait.
7 A Polish sculptor who worked in Oxford about 1873-9, and carved the
portrait heads in the restoration of the reredos in All Souls' College Chapel.
8 Local amateur.
9 No artist of this name appears to have been noticed.
10 Amateur painter, exhibited in the Royal Academy 1786 and 1787, d. 1809.
II See further in Burlington Magazine, Oct. 1911.
12 Nothing has been traced concerning this artist.
INDEX OF ARTISTS
273
Ketel, Cornelius, 20
* Kettle, Tilly, xvi, 106, 107, 108
Kirkby, Thomas, 120, 196
*Kneller, Sir Godfrey, xiv, xv, 54,
66, 68, 72, 74 and n., 78, 79, 80,
81, 83, 85, 86, 87, 89, 94, 133,
134, 138, 139, 141, 225, 229, 249
1 Lanier, Nicholas, xii, 154
*Lely, Sir Peter, xv, xxvi w., 48, 49,
54, 58, 59, 60, 69, 73, 79, 132
andn., 133, 173,179
Lawrence, Sir Thomas, P.R.A., 145
Lemoine, Jean Baptiste, 231
Lens, Bernard, 188
*Le Sueur, Hubert, 37, 38, 43, 44,
45, 135
Loggan, David, xxviii, 77
*Longhi, Giuseppi, 113, 114
Louise Hollandine, Princess Pala-
tine, 63 n.
Lucas, John, 147
*— , Richard Cockle, 196, 197
Lutterell, Edward, 62
Maclean, Thomas Nelson, 240
2 Mallory, Robert, xxviii n.
Manini, Gaetano, 190, 194
Merlieux, Louis Parfait, 232
Mierevelt, School of, 27
*Millais, Sir John Everett, P.R.A.,
D.C.L., 198, 199, 204
Mor, Sir Anthonis, 21
Montpensier, Louis A. P. due de, 115
8More, Mary, 11
Muller, Robert Antoine, 257
*Munro, Alexander, 125, 127, 198,
201, 234
Murphy, or Morphey, G., 63
Murphy, Thomas, 128
*Murray, Thomas, 97, 158
Mytens, Daniel, 177
Noble, Matthew, 233, 235
Nollekens, Joseph, R.A. , xvi, 112,
220
Northcote, James, R.A., 136
Opie, John, R.A., 143
OulessVW. W.,R.A.,241
Owen, William, R.A., 116, 131
Paget, H. M. , 124
Passignano, II, 41
Pepper, W., 119
Peters, M. W., R.A., 129
Phelps, Richard, 142
Phillips, Thomas, R.A., 145
* Pierce, Edward, xvi, 90
Pinker, H. R. Hope, 125, 236, 237,
238, 239
4 Prince, Maria, 46
Ramsay, Allan, 109, 144
Ravesteyn, J. A. , 44, 46
Reynolds, Frances, 105
*— , Sir Joshua, P.R.A., xii, 137,
190, 191, 192, 193
*Richardson, Jonathan the Elder, xv,
76, 80, 87, 92, 101, 140
— , Jonathan the Younger, 98
Richmond, George, R.A., D.C.L.,
148, 228
*— , Sir William Blake, R.A.,D.C.L.,
205
Rieder, William, 185
*Riley, John, xv, 65, 72, 75, 84, 183,
184, 185
Rising, John, 108
*Roberts, James, 162
Robertson, Andrew, A.R.H.A., 198
Romney, George, 116, 253
5*— , Rose, 69
Roslin, Alexander, 110, 223, 224
*Rosetti, Dante Gabriel, 199, 202
*Roubiliac, Louis Fra^ois, 226
Rubens, Sir Peter Paul, xvii, 12, 37
Russell, John, R.A., 116, 161
*Rysbrack, John Michael, xvi, 88,
225, 226, 251
Sampson, — 15, 244
Sargent, John S., R.A. , D.C.L., 126
Schaller, J. N. (?), 117
Schroeder, G. E., 139
Schwarz, Alfred, 150
Scorel, Jan van, 12
1 This portrait appears to be the only specimen of his work now identified.
2 Warden of the Merchant Taylor's Company/, in London 1670-90.
3 Amateur painter, c. 1674. 4 Amateur, fl. 1722.
5 No doubt a local artist ; known only in connexion with this portrait.
890 U
274
INDEX OF ARTISTS
Seeman, Enoch, 91
1 Shorter, — , 245
*Smart, John, 112
Smith, Chatterton (?), 117
— , Colvin, R.S.A., 195
2 — , John, 223, 224, 250
— , William, xviii, 197
— , Stephen Catterson, R.H.A.,
118
*Soest, Gerard, 53, 62
Somer, Paul van, 47
*Sonmans, William, xiv, xxviii, 1, 2,
3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 13, 15, 24, 26, 27,
31, 36, 68, 72, 76, 86, 87 n.3 89,
90, 159, 160, 222
*Stech, Andreas, 66
Stewart, Malcolm, 115
Story, Waldo W., 200
Stump, Samuel John, 196
Tampy, K. P., 242
Tatham, F.,123
*3Taylor, John, xvii, xxvii, xxviii, 48,
81, 246, 247
Taylor, Leonard Campbell, 126
4 Taylor,— , 161
6Teeds, -,161, 162
Thompson, T. C., R.H.A., 120, 233
Thornhill, Sir James, 133, 134, 141
Thornycroft, William Hamo, R.A.,
236, 241
Tissot, James, 149
*Tuke, Henry Scott, A.R.A. , xx, 128
Vanderbank, John, xvi, 94,100, 101 ,
187
6Vanderhagen, Alexr., 88, 89
Varotari, Alessandro, 40
'Vaslet, Lewis, 111
Verrio, Antonio, 133, 134
Vertue, George, 97
Walker, Robert, xxv, xxvi, 175
8 Ward, Lieut. -Colonel John, 114
* Watts, George Frederick, R.A.
D.C.L.,121,122, 123
Weekes, Henry, R.A., 234
9Weichmann, C. F., 105
Werff, P. van der, 30, 57
West, Benjamin, P.R.A., 143
— , Samuel, 255
Westmacott, Sir. R., R.A., 197
Wilkie, Sir David, R.A., 146, 147
*Wilkin, Charles, 164
"Williams, E. E.,115
*— , John Michael, 102, 104
Williamson, F. J.,124
Wilton, Joseph, R.A., 91
"Wollaston, J., 50, 51, 59, 60, 64,
67, 76, 130
Wolmark, Alfred, 242
Woolner, Thomas, R.A., 125, 199,
234
Wright, Thomas; 93
Zink, George Frederick, 205
12Zoppi, Franco, 108
1 A local artist ; known only in connexion with this portrait.
2 Apparently members of a local family or firm of artists in Oxford ; there
was also a Joseph Smith who painted.
8 Local painter ; an account of his life is given in the Introduction.
4 Possibly the artist who produced a portrait of Thomas Norris, organist of
Christ Church. The mezzotint is marked John Taylor pinxit et fecit 1777
[Bloxam, Register, ii, 109].
This artist is so far untraced.
No artist precisely of this name appears to have been previously noticed.
Some details concerning the family of this artist are to be found in the
Burlington Magazine, xvi, p. 33 seq.
" Amateur artist.
Hamburg artist, apparently amateur.
10 Amateur— the friend of Shelley.
11 Probably the painter of Whitfield in the National Portrait Gallery, called
there John Woolaston.
12 No artist of this name appears to have been previously noticed.
Ill
INDEX OF DONORS AND FORMER
OWNERS
(INCLUDING THE RECORDED PURCHASES OF THE UNIVERSITY)
Abingdon, Montagu Bertie, second
Earl of, 139 .
Addington, Henry, Speaker, 107
Addison, Charlotte, 86
A dee, Dr. Swithin, xviii, 103
Queen Adelaide, 146, 147
Alexander I, Tsar of Russia, 144
All Souls College, 142
Andrews, Jonathan, 35
Arundel, Earl of, 58
Ashmole, Elias, xxi, xxii, 167, 169,
170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176,
177, 178, 179, 180, 182, 183, 184,
185, 186, 206
Ashmolean Museum, 75, 80, 88 n. , 89
Aubrey, John, 185
-,J.,157
Bainbridge, Dr. John, 41
Banting, James Richard, Family of,
256
Barber, Alderman John, 99
Barlow, Dr. Thomas, 71
Bartholomew, Humphrey, xi, 27, 34,
45, 50, 51, 55, 59, 60, 64, 67, 72,
77
Bathurst, Dr. Ralph, xvii, 64, 84
Bayley, Dr. Thomas, 7, 69
Beaumont, R. H. , 23, 110, 190 and n.
Benson, Miss, 111
Bentinck-Scott,DukeofPortland,143
Bernard, Miss, 123
Bertie, Montagu, second Earl of
Abingdon, 139
Beverland, Adrian, 80
Blagrave, Thomas, xii, 156
Blathwayte, Colonel John, 159, 160
Bradley, Susanna, 104
Brasenose College, 23, 106
Bridgewater, John Egerton, Earl of,
31
Bromley, William, Speaker, 82, 140
Broughton, Dr. Brian, 7
Brown, Ford Madox, 199
Buckingham, Catherine, Duchess of,
140
Buckland, Dr. William, 232
Bull, Dr. John, 146
Burdon-Sanderson, Lady, 236, 239
— , Sir John, 236
Burgh, Dr. Thomas, 96
Burney, Dr. Charles, xii, 137, 193
Burton, Dr. Simon, 92
Butler, James, Duke of Ormond, 141
Cardwell, Dr. Edward, 146, 192
Carmey, Angel, 139, 141
Cattley, Mrs. Hannah Sophia, 241
Chantrey, Lady, 207-19
Chardin, Sir John, 186
Charleton, Dr. Walter, 21, 46
Charlett, Dr. Arthur, xv, 68, 69 and
n., 74 and n.
Cheere, Sir Henry, 41
Cherry, Anna, 80
— , Francis, 79
Child, Dr. William, xii, 157
Christ Church, Governing Body of, 13
Citizens of Oxford, 234, 256
City of Oxford, Purchases and Pay-
ments, 244, 245, 246, 247
Clermont, Thomas Fortescue, Lord,
25
Clarke, Dr. George, xiii, xviii, 16, 20,
40, 47, 58, 71, 78, 79, 138, 139, 225
Colman, George, 160
276 INDEX OF DONORS AND FORMER OWNERS
Coles, Jonathan Ackerman, 109, 111
Combe, Mrs. Martha, 198, 199, 201,
204
Cramer, Dr. John jfhtony, 146
Craven, Rev. J., 83
Crew, Nathaniel, Lord Bishop, 65, 72,
75, 84, 87
Cust, Lionel, 115
Danvers, Alicia, 55
Davis, Richard, 8
Derby, Edward Geoffrey, ourteenth
Earl of, 70, 148
Derham, Dr. William, 33
Dolben, Sir John English, 133, 143
— , Sir William, 88
Dorset, Lionel Sackville, Duke of,
26
— , Thomas, Earl of, x, 28
Douce, Francis, 98
Ducie, Henry John, Earl of, 255
Duncan, P. B., 174
Dupuis, Thomas Saunders, 161 and n.
Egerton, John, Earl of Bridgewater,
31
Ellacombe, Canon H. N., 29
King Edward VII, 150
Estcourt, T. C. Bucknall, 226
Ferrers, Edmund, 78
Finch, the Hon. Leopold William, 61
— , Robert, 136, 220, 221
Fletcher, William, 16, 19, 117
Flexney, Thomas (?), 245
Fortescue , Thomas , Lord Clermont, 25
Fortnum, C. DruryE., 179,201, 202
Foster, J. L., 123
Foulkes, Dr. John, 77, 101
— , Dr. Peter, 77
Frampton, Matthew, 81
Frederick William HI, King of
Prussia, 147
Frewin, Dr. Richard, 227
Furneaux, Mrs. Henry, 200
Gambier, James, 54
King George IV, 145
Gibbons, Dr. Christopher, xii, 155
Gibson, Thomas, 74
Goddard, Edward, 118
Godwin, Charles, 9
Gondal, Sir Bhagvat Sinji Thakur,
Sahib of, 243
Gotch, Dr. Francis, 236
Greene, T. Whitcombe, 184
Griffith, Dr. James, 17, 222
Gutch, John, 22, 101
Hall, Chambers, 167, 188, 191, 197
Hare, Henry, third Lord Coleraine,
159
Harley, Edward, second Earl of
Oxford, 76, 84, 87, 91, 96, 97, 98
Hawkins, W. L. Bentinck, 188, 191,
193, 194, 195, 196, 198, 203, 205
Hayes, Dr. Philip, xii, xviii. 27, 72,
137, 151, 153, 159, 160, 161, 162,
164
— , Dr. William, 158, 165
Heather, Dr. William, xii, 152
Herbert, Thomas, Earl of Pembroke,
37
Herkomer, Sir Hubert von, 200, 201,
203, 204, 205
Herring, Archbishop Thomas, 77
Hevelius, 66
Hicks, John Power, 116
Kingston, John, xii, 156
Hoare, Sir Richard Colt, 194
Hobson, Robert, 78
Hodgson, James, 22, 85
— , Mrs. B. H., 241
Hody, Mrs. Edith, 76
Holt, William, 23
Hope, Mrs. Ellen, 121, 122, 235,237
— ,F. W.,232
Howard, Dr. Samuel, 103
Huddesford, George, 39
Hudson, Elizabeth Harriot, 112
Hughes, Mrs., 163
Hunt, W. Holman, 200
Hunter, Sir William Wilson, 240
Ireland, Dr. John, 119
Isham, Dr. Euseby, 83
Jackson, T. W., 125, 127, 195, 199
Jacob, Dr. William, xviii, 26, 30, 56,
57,71
Jarman, J. B., 8
Jones, Miss, 207
INDEX OF DONORS AND FORMER OWNERS 277
Kaye, Sir Richard, 106
Kneller, Sir Godfrey, 62, 89, 141
King, Frederick, 252
— , Dr. John, 96
— , Dr. William, 104
Lamphire, Dr. John, 34, 35
Lanier, Nicholas, xii, 137, 154
Laud, Archbishop, x, 45
Lawes, Henry, xii, 137, 154
Le Courayer, Dr. P. F., 107
Lichfield, George Henry Lee, Earl of,
144
Lock, Matthew, xii, 156
Lupton, William, 86
Macbride, Dr. John David, 146
McLean, Malcolm, 203
Magdalen College, xx, 128
Magistrates of the County of Oxford,
257, 258, 259
Magrath, E., 235
Malbon, Samuel, 12
Marlborough, Sarah, Duchess of, 88
Massey, Dr. R. M., 36
Mayerne, Sir Theodore, xvii, 46
Milles, Professor Thomas, 107
Montagu, Captain Montagu, 113, 114
Moore, Charles, 223
More, Mary, 11
Mould, Bernard, 168 n.
Ormerod, George Wareing, 122
Ormonde, James Butler, second Duke
of, 141
Overbury, Thomas, 30
Oxford, Citizens of, 234, 256
— , City of, Purchases and Payments
of, 244, 245, 246, 247
— , Magistrates of the County of, 257,
258, 259
— , Edward Harley, second Earl of,
76, 84, 87, 91, 96, 97, 98
Paine, James, junior, 192
Palmer, Ralph, 60
Pate, William, 52, 53
Peisley, Dr. Bartholomew, 94
Pembroke, Thomas Herbert, Earl of,
37
Penrose, Thomas, 193
Pepys, Samuel, xv, 74 and n.} 141
Percy, Bishop Thomas, 105
Pett, Peter, 56
Pierce, John, 39
Plumer, Sir Thomas, 107
Pomfret, Henrietta Louisa, Countess
of, 189
Portland, William Cavendish Ben-
tinck Scott, fourth Duke of, 143
Potter, Dr. John, 100
Poulton, Professor E. B., 237
Powell, Frederick York, 124
Price, Mrs. Bartholomew, 126
Prestwich, Lady, 238
Prince, Maria, 46
Ravenshaw, T. F. T., 18
Rawlins, Thomas, 69, 70, 74
Rawlinson, Dr. Richard, xiii, xviii,
5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17,
24, 38, 42, 44, 45, 50, 57, 60, 62, 63,
67,70 n.9 75 n., 83, 84, 85 n., 88, 93,
95 and n., 96, 97, 103, 105, 129,
158, 178, 184
— , Thomas, 42, 57, 63, 184
Read, David Charles, 196
Rigaud, Major-General Gibbes, 228
— , John, 114
Roberts, James, 163
Robinson, Sir John, 43
Sackville, Lionel, Duke of Dorset, 26
Sadler, Alderman C. J., 255
Savile, Lady, x, xiv, 32
Scott, Russell, 238
Shelley, Jane, Lady, xx, 115, 119
Shuckburgh, Lady, 129
Shudall, Uriah, 94
Silsbee, Edward Augustus, 124 w.,
126
Sloane, Sir Hans, 102
Smith, Professor Goldwin, 21, 127
— , Dr. Joseph, 18, 73
Smyth, John, 92
Stanley, Edward Geoffrey, fourteenth
Earl of Derby, 70, 148
— , Arthur Penrhyn, Dean, 123
— , Edward, 10, 12 n.s 40, 53
Stephens, Lewis, 129
Strange, John, 108
Subscribers, Bodies of, 118, 119, 120,
121,122,125,126,127,148,164,198,
278 INDEX OF DONORS AND FORMER OWNERS
203, 205, 230, 234, 239, 242, 256,
257, 258, 259
Sutherland, Mrs., 109, 110, 112, 113
Sydal, Dr., 100
Taunton, Sir W. E., 254
Taylor, John, xxviii, 48, 81
Thornhill, Sir James, 11, 67
Tomlins, Richard, 47
Tradescant, Hester, xxi, xxii
— , John, the younger, xxi, 167, 169,
170, 171, 173, 174, 176, 177, 181,
182, 206
Trapp, Joseph, 100
Treacher, Rev. J. S. , 253
Treherne, Rev. J., 195
Trinity College, 14
University Accounts, Quotations from
and Purchases, xiv, xv, 3, 22, 29,
31, 32, 38, 41, 43, 45, 49, 51, 56,
58, 59, 61, 62, 65, 67, 68, 69 n., 74,
75, 78, 82, 86, 88, 90, 91, 93, 94,
108, 136, 142, 199, 201
Urquhart, Francis Fortescue, 149
Vane, Rev. John, 220
Venables, Sir Peter, Baron of Kin-
derton, 19
Vinerian Scholars, 107
Viviani, Vincenzio, xi, 41
Vossius Isaac 1
Walford, E.,240
Walrond, Mrs. Beaumont, 89
Warren Edward Prioleau, 128
Warton, Dr. Joseph, 158, 206
Weichmann, C. F., 105
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke
of, 148
Westmacott, Sir R., 197
Whear, Dr. Degory, 33
William II, Emperor of Germany,
150
Whyrley, Mrs., 159
Willett, Henry, 195
Williams, George James, 110
— , Dr. George, 222
— , John Wheeler, 116, 124
— , Percy Edward, 116
Willis, Dr. Browne, 59
Woodhurn, Miss, 197
Wooddeson, Professor Richard, 107
Wordsworth, Miss Elizabeth, 206
Wotton, Sir Henry, xi
Wilson, Dr. John, xii, 137, 155
Wren, Christopher, 90
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