Later Stuart Portraits Catalogue
Francis Atterbury (1662-1732), Bishop of Rochester
- Gallery portraits
- All known portraits
- Biography and References
Prelate, politician and Jacobite; Christ Church, Oxford; BA 1684, MA 1687; DD 1701; Dean of Carlisle 1704-11; Dean of Christ Church 1711-13; Dean of Westminster, Dean of the Order of the Bath and Bishop of Rochester 1713-23; a dogmatic high-church tory, his political frustration at growing whig supremacy led him to sympathise with the Jacobites; deprived of office and exiled 1723; d. in Paris.
This extended catalogue entry is from the National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: John Ingamells, National Portrait Gallery: Later Stuart Portraits 1685-1714, National Portrait Gallery, 2009, 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.
This extended catalogue entry is from the National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: John Ingamells, National Portrait Gallery: Later Stuart Portraits 1685-1714, National Portrait Gallery, 2009, 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.