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Francis Turner

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Francis Turner, by Mary Beale, circa 1683-1688 -NPG 573 - © National Portrait Gallery, London

© National Portrait Gallery, London

Later Stuart Portraits Catalogue

Francis Turner

attributed to Mary Beale
circa 1683-1688
29 1/2 in. x 24 1/2 in. (749 mm x 622 mm)
NPG 573

Inscriptionback to top

Inscribed round upper spandrels: Fr.Turner. Epis.Elien.

This portraitback to top

Painted as a Bishop, and so after 1683. An undistinguished, reversed, version is in Corpus Christi College, Oxford. [1]

Footnotesback to top

1) Mrs R. L. Poole, Catalogue of Portraits in the possession of the University, Colleges, City and County of Oxford, II, p 270, no.21, described as derived from the head in NPG 79; presented 1714 by the sitter’s brother. A watercolour copy by T. Athow is in the Ashmolean Museum (Sutherland collection, Burnet i, 590).

Referenceback to top

Ellis 1843
Sir Henry Ellis, List of Portraits suspended on the Walls of the Eastern Zoological Gallery, British Museum, no.37.

Ingamells 1981
J. Ingamells, The English Episcopal Portrait 1559-1835, catalogue, 1981, p 392.

Piper 1963
D. Piper, Catalogue of the Seventeenth Century Portraits in the National Portrait Gallery 1625-1714, 1963, p 52.

Provenanceback to top

Transferred from the British Museum 1879.


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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