John Wyclif
(1324?-1384), Religious reformer and theologianJohn Wyclif (Wycliffe)
Sitter associated with 21 portraits
John Wyclif was a fourteenth-century scholar, translator and teacher, whose followers undertook the first complete translation of the Bible into English. Personal access to religious texts in the vernacular was central to the arguments for religious reform and as a result Wyclif was hailed in the sixteenth century as 'the morning star of the Reformation'. Many of Wyclif's teachings were considered heretical by the Catholic Church, and in 1428 the pope ordered that Wyclif's bones should be dug up, burned, and scattered in the river Swift.
Taking up the body of John Wycliffe
after Unknown artist
woodcut, published 1563 or after
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after Unknown artist
woodcut, 17th century
NPG D24011
after Hendrik Hondius (Hond)
line engraving, after 1602
NPG D24010
Fictitious portrait called John Wyclif
by Hendrik Hondius (Hond)
line engraving, circa 1602
NPG D42320
after Hendrik Hondius (Hond)
line engraving, circa 1650
NPG D42321
by Klemens Ammon, after Unknown artist
line engraving, circa 1650
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by Klemens Ammon, after Unknown artist
line engraving, circa 1650
NPG D42325
by Thomas Trotter
line engraving, late 17th century
NPG D24008
by Gaspar Bouttats, after Hendrik-Frans Verbruggen
line engraving, late 17th century
NPG D42323
by Gaspar Bouttats, after Hendrik-Frans Verbruggen
line engraving, late 17th century
NPG D42322
Fictitious portrait called John Wyclif
by Conrad Meyer
line engraving, 1671
NPG D8845
'The Candle is lighted, we can not blow out' (Leading Theologians of the Protestant Reformation)
published by John Garrett
line engraving, after 1673
NPG D24005
by Unknown artist
line engraving, circa 1683
NPG D23051
by Unknown artist
line engraving, circa 1683
NPG D43263
after Unknown artist
line engraving, perhaps 18th century
NPG D24009
Fictitious portrait called John Wyclif
by Unknown artist
line engraving, probably 18th century
NPG D11470
Fictitious portrait called John Wyclif
by and published by John Faber Sr
mezzotint, 1714
NPG D4918
by Richard Houston
mezzotint, mid 18th century
NPG D24006
'The Parallel Reformers' (George Whitefield; John Wyclif)
after Unknown artist
etching and line engraving, 1740
NPG D43261
by Unknown artist
etching, published 1769
NPG D42454
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