John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby

Inscriptionback to top

Inscribed, bottom right: EARL/OF/MULGRAVE.

This portraitback to top

Showing the lord chamberlain’s staff in his left hand (an office Buckingham held 1686-88). A copy from the signed version in the National Maritime Museum (BHC 2581). [1]

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1) J. D. Stewart, Godfrey Kneller, 1983, no.113; from the Berkeley Sheffield collection, Christie’s, 16 July 1943, lot 69; engr., in reverse, I. Beckett 1687-88 (J. Chaloner Smith, British Mezzotinto Portraits, 76), the date revealed by the titles given; the plate later altered, see G. S. Layard, Catalogue raisonné of engraved British portraits from altered plates, 1927, no.78.

Referenceback to top

Piper 1963
D. Piper, Catalogue of the Seventeenth Century Portraits in the National Portrait Gallery 1625-1714, 1963, p 43.

Provenanceback to top

Anon. sale, Christie’s, 21 July 1916, lot 142; bought by the NPG 1916.

Exhibitionsback to top

Royal Military School of Music, Twickenham, 1972–.

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