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Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston

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Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston, by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt, 1709 -NPG 3213 - © National Portrait Gallery, London

© National Portrait Gallery, London

Later Stuart Portraits Catalogue

Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston

by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
1709
36 in. x 28 in. (914 mm x 711 mm)
NPG 3213

Inscriptionback to top

Signed, bottom left: G. Kneller.

This portraitback to top

The Kit-Cat Club portrait. The comparatively lean face and slightly retroussé nose contrast with other portraits traditionally identified as Kingston, which better reflect his ‘black complexion’.

Referenceback to top

Piper 1963
D. Piper, Catalogue of the Seventeenth Century Portraits in the National Portrait Gallery 1625-1714, 1963, pp 189-90.

Stewart 1983
J. D. Stewart, Godfrey Kneller, 1983, no.407.

Reproductionsback to top

J. Faber II 1733 (J. Chaloner Smith, British Mezzotinto Portraits, 208/7) inscribed G Kneller Bart. pinx 1709, but with Garter star and ribbon (showing a more subtle line to his left sleeve and the wig comes in more on the right side of his face).


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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