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43 Portraits in set: The Kit-cat Club portraits: paintings by Sir Godfrey Kneller, circa 1697-1721
These portraits are of a group of influential men pledged to uphold the 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688 and the Protestant succession. Founded by Somers, the Lord Chancellor and the publisher Tonson, the club began meeting in Christopher Cat's tavern near Temple Bar, and took its name from his mutton pies known as Kit-cats. Members included Whig MPs and landowners as well as writers. The artist, Kneller, himself a member of the club adopted a standard 'kit-cat' format of 36 x 28 inches instead of the standard 30 x 25 inches for the portraits. In the 1730s they hung in a special room which Tonson junior had built at his house at Barn Elms.
Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset
by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
oil on canvas, circa 1697
On display in the Dining Room at Beningbrough Hall
NPG 3204
John Vaughan, 3rd Earl of Carbery
by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
oil on canvas, 1700s
On display in the Dining Room at Beningbrough Hall
NPG 3196
Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle
by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
oil on canvas, circa 1700-1712
NPG 3197
by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
oil on canvas, 1700s
NPG 3206
after Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
oil on canvas, (1702)
NPG 3201
by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
oil on canvas, circa 1703-1712
On display in Room 9 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 3193
Charles Fitzroy, 2nd Duke of Grafton
by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
oil on canvas, circa 1703-1705
On display in Room 9 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 3210
Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax
by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
oil on canvas, circa 1703-1710
On display in Room 9 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 3211
Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond and Lennox
by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
oil on canvas, circa 1703-1710
On display in the Dining Room at Beningbrough Hall
NPG 3221
Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset
by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
oil on canvas, circa 1703
On display in Room 9 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 3224
by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
oil on canvas, circa 1704-1710
On display in Room 9 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 3231
Charles Cornwallis, 4th Baron Cornwallis
by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
oil on canvas, circa 1705-1715
On display in the Dining Room at Beningbrough Hall
NPG 3200
by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
oil on canvas, circa 1705-1710
On display in the Dining Room at Beningbrough Hall
NPG 3203
Algernon Capel, 2nd Earl of Essex
by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
oil on canvas, 1705
On display in the Dining Room at Beningbrough Hall
NPG 3207
by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
oil on canvas, circa 1705-1710
On display in Room 9 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 3208
James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope
by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
oil on canvas, circa 1705-1710
On display in the Dining Room at Beningbrough Hall
NPG 3225
by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
oil on canvas, circa 1705-1708
On display in Room 9 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 3228
by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
oil on canvas, circa 1705-1710
On display in the Dining Room at Beningbrough Hall
NPG 3229
by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
oil on canvas, circa 1706-1711
On display at Royal Military School of Music, London
NPG 3214
Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun
by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
oil on canvas, 1707
On display in the Dining Room at Beningbrough Hall
NPG 3218
by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
oil on canvas, circa 1708
On display in the Dining Room at Beningbrough Hall
NPG 3232
Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington
by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
oil on canvas, circa 1708-1710
On display in Room 9 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 3234
by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
oil on canvas, 1709
On display in Room 9 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 3199
Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston
by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
oil on canvas, 1709
On display in Room 9 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 3213
John Montagu, 2nd Duke of Montagu
by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
oil on canvas, 1709
On display in the Dining Room at Beningbrough Hall
NPG 3219
James Berkeley, 3rd Earl of Berkeley
by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
oil on canvas, circa 1710
On display in Room 9 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 3195
Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham
by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
oil on canvas, circa 1710-1713
On display in Room 9 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 3198
William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire
by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
oil on canvas, circa 1710-1716
On display in the Dining Room at Beningbrough Hall
NPG 3202
Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset
by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
oil on canvas, circa 1710-1712
On display in Room 9 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 3205
Francis Godolphin, 2nd Earl of Godolphin
by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
oil on canvas, circa 1710-1712
NPG 3209
Charles Montagu, 1st Duke of Manchester
by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
oil on canvas, circa 1710-1712
On display in the Dining Room at Beningbrough Hall
NPG 3216
by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
oil on canvas, circa 1710
On display in Room 9 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 3217
Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford
by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
oil on canvas, circa 1710-1715
On display in Room 9 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 3220
Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon
by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
oil on canvas, circa 1710
On display on Floor 2: Getting the Picture at Beningbrough Hall
NPG 3235
by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
oil on canvas, circa 1710-1711
On display in the Dining Room at Beningbrough Hall
NPG 3226
Thomas Wharton, 1st Marquess of Wharton
by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
oil on canvas, circa 1710-1715
On display in Room 9 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 3233
by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
oil on canvas, before 1711
On display in Room 9 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 3223
by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
oil on canvas, 1711
On display in Room 9 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 3227
by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
oil on canvas, 1715
On display in the Dining Room at Beningbrough Hall
NPG 3212
William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath
by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
oil on canvas, 1717
On display in Room 9 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 3194
Richard Lumley, 2nd Earl of Scarbrough
by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
oil on canvas, 1717
On display in the Dining Room at Beningbrough Hall
NPG 3222
by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
oil on canvas, 1717
On display in Room 9 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 3230
Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne; Henry Clinton, 7th Earl of Lincoln
by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
oil on canvas, circa 1721
On display in Room 9 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 3215
