Sir Samuel Garth

1 portrait

Sir Samuel Garth, by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt, circa 1705 -NPG 3208 - © National Portrait Gallery, London

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Later Stuart Portraits Catalogue

Sir Samuel Garth

by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
circa 1705
35 1/2 in. x 27 3/4 in. (902 mm x 705 mm)
NPG 3208

Inscriptionback to top

Signed, lower left: G. Kneller f.

This portraitback to top

The Kit-Cat Club portrait. A copy was given to Alexander Pope in 1732; [1] another belongs to the Royal College of Physicians. [2] A drawing of this type by Edward Byng is in the British Museum. [3]

Footnotesback to top

1) ‘You will oblige me in the copy of my old friend Dr Garth …’, Pope to Tonson, 7 June 1732 (Pope Corr., III, p 291).
2) D. Piper in G. Wolstenholme ed., Royal Soc. of Physicians, The Portraits, 1964, pp 176-77; exhibited Second Special Exhibition of National Portraits ( ... William and Mary to MDCCC), South Kensington, 1867, no.178.
3) E. Croft-Murray & P. Hulton, British Museum, Catalogue of British Drawings: XVI and XVII centuries, 1960, p 241 (1897.8.13.7; Byng 6:f.47v).

Referenceback to top

Arnold 1970
J. Arnold, Perukes & Periwigs, NPG, 1970, p 19.

Piper 1963
D. Piper, Catalogue of the Seventeenth Century Portraits in the National Portrait Gallery 1625-1714, 1963, p 133-34 as c.1710.

Stewart 1983
J. D. Stewart, Godfrey Kneller, 1983, no.288 as c.1705.

Exhibitionsback to top

Manners & Morals, Hogarth and British Painting 1700–1760, Tate Gallery, 1987, no.23.

Reproductionsback to top

J. Simon (J. Chaloner Smith, British Mezzotinto Portraits, 68); J. Faber II 1733 (J. Chaloner Smith, British Mezzotinto Portraits, 208/30).


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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