Tregonwell Frampton

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Tregonwell Frampton, by John Wootton, based on a work of 1728 -NPG 4312 - © National Portrait Gallery, London

© National Portrait Gallery, London

Later Stuart Portraits Catalogue

Tregonwell Frampton

after John Wootton
based on a work of 1728
12 3/8 in. x 9 1/2 in. (314 mm x 241 mm)
NPG 4312

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The rough execution and grisaille technique suggest NPG 4312 was copied from the Faber II mezzotint of 1728 after Wootton, which it almost matches in size, [1] but omits the horse’s name, DRAGON, from the top of the roundel. [2] A Wootton original has not been traced.
The standard image of Frampton. Two versions are recorded showing a substantially similar Frampton with hound and gamecock, but with the roundel of the horse and groom transferred to the back wall:
the roundel to left; Pitchford Hall, from Durdans; Christie’s, 20 July 1951, lot 148
the horse and groom in a large oval to right; Lady Sybil Grant; Pitchford Hall sale, Sotheby’s, 28-29 September 1992, lot 601; Christie’s, 26 May 2000, lot 4 as by a follower of Wootton.
Further versions were listed by Siltzer in 1923. [3]

Footnotesback to top

1) 39 x 25.5 cm; A. Meyer, John Wootton, exhibition catalogue, Kenwood, 1984, no.57; J. Chaloner Smith, British Mezzotinto Portraits, 138, inscribed … Keeper of ye Running Horses at Newmarket to King William ye 3rd, Queen Ann, King George ye 1st and King George ye 2d Ao AEtat 87, 1728. A reversed and unsigned mezzotint is Faber II, J. Chaloner Smith, British Mezzotinto Portraits, 139.
2) Referring to the persistent story that Frampton had raced Dragon the day after gelding; the horse won but died at the finish and Frampton won 2,000 gns. (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography).
3) F. Siltzer, Newmarket - its Sport and Personalities, 1923, p 201: at the Jockey Club, Newmarket; with the family of John Croke of Moreton House, Dorset, and with the family of the Rev C. T. Frampton of Chichester.

Referenceback to top

Meyer 1984
A. Meyer, John Wootton, exhibition catalogue, Kenwood, 1984, p 78 as after Wootton.

Simon & Saywell (eds.) 2004
Complete Illustrated Catalogue, NPG, ed. J. Simon & D. Saywell, 2004, p 228.

Provenanceback to top

Sir Bruce Ingram, 2nd Bt. (1877-1963); Colnaghi, from whom purchased 1963.


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.

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