Mary Steele

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- subject matching 'Flowers and plants'

Mary Steele, by Unknown artist, circa 1720-1723 -NPG 1506d - © National Portrait Gallery, London

© National Portrait Gallery, London

Later Stuart Portraits Catalogue

Mary Steele

by Unknown artist
circa 1720-1723
3 3/8 in. x 2 3/8 in. (86 mm x 60 mm) oval
NPG 1506d

This portraitback to top

V. J. Murrell considered this ‘the most competent & interesting’ of the Steele miniatures, implying it was by a different hand. [1] See Richard Steele NPG 1506a.

Footnotesback to top

1) Examination report on file (1975).

Referenceback to top

See Richard Steele NPG 1506a.

W. Nisser, Michael Dahl, 1927, p 107, cat. p 140, no.23 as by Christian Richter.

Provenanceback to top

See Richard Steele NPG 1506a.


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.