National Portrait Gallery - Person

Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), Novelist

Sitter associated with 9 portraits
Novelist and printer; his three novels Pamela, Clarissa Harlowe and Sir Charles Grandison, enjoyed enormous popularity at home and abroad, and brought him a wide circle of friends and correspondents. For many years he printed the Journal of the House of Commons.

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Samuel Richardson

by Joseph Highmore
oil on canvas, circa 1747
NPG 161

Samuel Richardson

by Joseph Highmore
oil on canvas, 1750
On display on Floor 2: Getting the Picture at Beningbrough Hall
NPG 1036

Samuel Richardson

by Mason Chamberlin
oil on copper, 1754 or before
On display in Room 10 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 6435

Samuel Richardson

by James Macardell, after Joseph Highmore
mezzotint, (1750)
NPG D20083

Samuel Richardson

by Joseph Constantine Stadler, published by Sir Richard Phillips, after Susanna Duncombe (née Highmore)
coloured aquatint, published 31 May 1804
NPG D5810