Edward Stillingfleet

This portraitback to top

A variant of the Lely portrait of 1672 engraved by Blooteling and copied by Charles Beale II.

Referenceback to top

Ingamells 1981
J. Ingamells, The English Episcopal Portrait 1559-1835, catalogue, 1981, p 366.

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

Provenanceback to top

By descent to Mrs Edith Stillingfleet Bowles, Malvern,¹ from whom purchased 1931.

¹ The sitter’s great-grandson married 1818 the Rev. G. Downsey Bowles. A MS label verso is signed by the then owner, Ann Bowles, in 1852.


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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