Later Stuart Portraits Catalogue

Francis Godolphin, 2nd Earl of Godolphin (1678-1766), Lord Privy Seal

c.1690?
Painting by ‘Kneller’, as a boy, left hand clasping a dog (Historical and Descriptive Catalogue of Pictures belonging to the Duke of Leeds, 1902, no.127). Untraced.

1697
Enamel by Charles Boit, three-quarter-length with his future wife, signed and dated. Nationalmuseum, Stockholm (NMB 1585; Illustrated Catalogue - Swedish and other Nordic Miniatures, I, 2001, p 129).

c.1710
Painting attributed to Kneller, whole-length in yellow coat with silver facings, left hand on hip. Blenheim (G. Scharf, Catalogue raisonné; or, A List of the Pictures in Blenheim Palace, 1862, p 77; illus. W. S. Churchill, Marlborough and His Times, I, p 424).

c.1712-14
Painting by Godfrey Kneller, see NPG 3209.

c.1725-30
Painting by Jonathan Richardson, three-quarter-length seated, left hand in his lap, the lord chamberlain’s key at his waist. Yale Center for British Art (B.1981.25.530; illus. C. Gibson-Wood, Jonathan Richardson, 2000, p 59).

1733
Marble bust by Peter Scheemakers, all’antica. Yale Center for British Art (B1979.36.1; I. Roscoe, ‘Peter Scheemakers’, Wal. Soc., LXI, 1999, no.122, fig.89).

c.1740
Painting attributed to Van Loo, see under NPG 889.



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.