Later Stuart Portraits Catalogue
Algernon Capel, 2nd Earl of Essex (1670-1710), General
- Gallery portraits
- All known portraits
- Biography and References
c.1680
Unattributed painting, half-length as a youth. Watford Museum (L. B. Harwood, Portraits of the Earls of Essex … , Watford, c.2003, pp 22-23 as possibly Cassiobury Park sale, 4th day, 15 June 1922, lot 800 as English School, Portrait of a Gentleman with a perruque). Harwood found support for the identification in the Wissing described below.
c.1685
Painting by Willem Wissing, whole-length standing as a youth, with his widowed mother and his sister, signed. Sotheby’s NY, 7 June 1979, lot 66. Engraved anon. (J. Chaloner Smith, British Mezzotinto Portraits, IV, p 1656, nos 43, 44).
c.1690-95
Painting by Godfrey Kneller, see under NPG 143.
1705
Painting by Godfrey Kneller, see NPG 3207.
Doubtful Portraits
Paintings attributed to Dahl, three-quarter-length standing in a landscape, left hand on hip, right pointing (Boughton House) and attributed to Lely, small whole-length, seated with a hound (Cassiobury Park sale, 4th day, 15 June 1922, lot 849).
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.
Unattributed painting, half-length as a youth. Watford Museum (L. B. Harwood, Portraits of the Earls of Essex … , Watford, c.2003, pp 22-23 as possibly Cassiobury Park sale, 4th day, 15 June 1922, lot 800 as English School, Portrait of a Gentleman with a perruque). Harwood found support for the identification in the Wissing described below.
c.1685
Painting by Willem Wissing, whole-length standing as a youth, with his widowed mother and his sister, signed. Sotheby’s NY, 7 June 1979, lot 66. Engraved anon. (J. Chaloner Smith, British Mezzotinto Portraits, IV, p 1656, nos 43, 44).
c.1690-95
Painting by Godfrey Kneller, see under NPG 143.
1705
Painting by Godfrey Kneller, see NPG 3207.
Doubtful Portraits
Paintings attributed to Dahl, three-quarter-length standing in a landscape, left hand on hip, right pointing (Boughton House) and attributed to Lely, small whole-length, seated with a hound (Cassiobury Park sale, 4th day, 15 June 1922, lot 849).
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.