Jonathan Richardson
(1667-1745), Portrait painterSitter in 8 portraits
Artist associated with 125 portraits
One of the most successful native-born portraitists of the first decades of the eighteenth century, Richardson was the master of Thomas Hudson and George Knapton. He owned a superb collection of Old Master drawings. His Theory of Painting published in 1715, inspired the young Joshua Reynolds to become an artist. Richardson was exceptionally fond of drawing portraits of himself and his close friends; Horace Walpole later commented that 'after his retirement form the business the good old man seems to have amused himself with writing a short poem and drawing his own or his son's portrait every day'.
William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper
after Jonathan Richardson
oil on canvas, 1710?
NPG 736
by Jonathan Richardson
oil on canvas, 1712
NPG 5067
by Jonathan Richardson
oil on canvas, 1712
NPG 160
by Jonathan Richardson
oil on canvas, circa 1713-1714
NPG 4447
Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington and 4th Earl of Cork
by Jonathan Richardson
oil on canvas, circa 1717-1719
NPG 4818
by Thomas Wright, after Jonathan Richardson
oil on canvas, circa 1728-1736, based on a work of circa 1718
NPG 91
by Thomas Hudson, after Jonathan Richardson
oil on canvas, before 1779, based on a work of 1718
NPG 562
Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford
attributed to Jonathan Richardson
oil on canvas, circa 1725
NPG 1808
attributed to Jonathan Richardson
oil on canvas, 1725, based on a work of circa 1725
NPG 17
Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham and 7th Earl of Winchilsea
attributed to Jonathan Richardson
oil on canvas, 1726
NPG 3622
Anne Hatton, Countess of Winchilsea
attributed to Jonathan Richardson
oil on canvas, circa 1727
NPG 3622a
by Jonathan Richardson
oil on canvas, circa 1729
NPG 706
by Jonathan Richardson
graphite on vellum, circa 1730
NPG 4995
by Jonathan Richardson
pencil on vellum, 1730
NPG 1831
by Jonathan Richardson
black and red chalk, early 1730s
NPG 1693
by or after Jonathan Richardson
pencil on vellum, 1730s
NPG 1576d
by Jonathan Richardson
oil on canvas, feigned oval, 1733
NPG 576
after Jonathan Richardson
oil on canvas, feigned oval, circa 1734
NPG 3962
by Jonathan Richardson
black chalk heightened with white on blue paper, October 1735
NPG 3779
by Jonathan Richardson
pen and pencil, 1736
NPG 3023
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