Mid-Georgian Portraits Catalogue

Richard Beadon (1737-1824), Bishop of Bath and Wells

1789-95
Painting by L. F. Abbott, half length, wearing rochet and chimere, holding a small blue book. Jesus College, Cambridge. Engraved G. S. Facius. A replica is in the Bishop’s Palace, Wells.

1823
Statuette by Lucius Gahagan, see NPG 4901.

Doubtful Portrait
Painting recorded with the Church Council of St Margaret’s, Stanford Rivers, Essex, in 1969.



This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: John Ingamells, National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian Portraits 1760-1790, National Portrait Gallery, 2004, 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.