Charles Montagu, 1st Duke of Manchester

Charles Montagu, 1st Duke of Manchester, by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt, circa 1712 -NPG 3216 - © National Portrait Gallery, London

© National Portrait Gallery, London

Later Stuart Portraits Catalogue

Charles Montagu, 1st Duke of Manchester

by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
circa 1712
35 3/4 in. x 27 3/4 in. (908 mm x 705 mm)
NPG 3216

Inscriptionback to top

Signed, lower left: GK (monogram).

This portraitback to top

The Kit-Cat Club portrait.

Referenceback to top

Piper 1963
D. Piper, Catalogue of the Seventeenth Century Portraits in the National Portrait Gallery 1625-1714, 1963, p 215 as c.1710.

Stewart 1983
J. D. Stewart, Godfrey Kneller, 1983, no.455 as c.1712.

Exhibitionsback to top

Handel, NPG, 1985, no.39; Beningbrough 1978–.

Reproductionsback to top

J. Faber II 1732 (J. Chaloner Smith, British Mezzotinto Portraits, 208/9).


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.

View all known portraits for Charles Montagu, 1st Duke of Manchester

View all known portraits for Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt