Mid-Georgian Portraits Catalogue

William Strahan (1715-1785), Printer and publisher

1764
Miniature by Luke Sullivan, bust-length oval. Private collection, by descent from the sitter.

c.1775
Painting by Mason Chamberlin, three-quarter length seated, a paper in his right hand. Yale Center for British Art (B1981.25.269). Engraved after 1785 as the late Mr Strahan, Chamberlayne pinxt/Leney sculpt (oval).

1780
Painting by Joshua Reynolds, see NPG 4202.


This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: John Ingamells, National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian Portraits 1760-1790, National Portrait Gallery, 2004, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.