George Stepney

George Stepney, by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt, circa 1707 -NPG 3228 - © National Portrait Gallery, London

© National Portrait Gallery, London

Later Stuart Portraits Catalogue

George Stepney

by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
circa 1707
36 in. x 28 in. (914 mm x 711 mm)
NPG 3228

Inscriptionback to top

Signed, lower left: G.Kneller/f (GK in monogram).

This portraitback to top

The Kit-Cat Club portrait. A drawing of this type by Edward Byng is in the British Museum. [1]

Footnotesback to top

1) E. Croft-Murray & P. Hulton, British Museum, Catalogue of British Drawings: XVI and XVII centuries, 1960, p 225 (1897.8.13.6; Byng 5:f.19r).

Referenceback to top

Piper 1963
D. Piper, Catalogue of the Seventeenth Century Portraits in the National Portrait Gallery 1625-1714, 1963, p 331 as c.1705.

Stewart 1983
J. D. Stewart, Godfrey Kneller, 1983, no.713 as c.1707.

Reproductionsback to top

J. Faber II 1733 (J. Chaloner Smith, British Mezzotinto Portraits, 208/35).


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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