Early Stuart Portraits Catalogue
John Howe (1630-1705), Puritan divine
- Gallery portraits
- All known portraits
- Biography and References
c.1680
Painting by John Riley, half length oval, engr. T. Trotter 1783 (Middleton’s Biographia Evangelica) ‘from the original picture in the Library, Red Cross Street’, [i.e. Dr Williams’s Library]. Differing from the Kneller in showing a flatter-topped wig and broader bands.
c.1690
Painting by Godfrey Kneller, see NPG 265.
Doubtful Portraits
Painting by John Closterman, half-length oval in gown and bands, inscribed Ao Dom.1702 Aeta Suae.80. Christ’s College, Cambridge (M. Rogers, ‘John and John Baptist Closterman: a catalogue of their works’, Wal. Soc., XLIX, 1983, no.116 as Unknown Man; J. W. Goodison, Catalogue of the Portraits in Christ’s, Clare and Sidney Sussex Colleges, 1985, no.47 as called Howe).
Painting attributed to Riley, bust-length, dark wig, large dark eyes, broad bands, an arch-topped fragment let into a larger canvas. Exhibited Third Exhibition of National Portraits, South Kensington, 1868, no.742, lent Edgar Disney.
An engraving by Bidley ‘from an Original Picture in the Possession of the Author’ (E. Calamy, Nonconformists Memorial, II, 1802, f.p.81) approximates to the Kneller type.
This extended catalogue entry is by John Ingamells, one of a limited number of entries drafted in 2010 for the incomplete catalogue, Early Stuart Portraits 1625-1685, and is as written 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.
Painting by John Riley, half length oval, engr. T. Trotter 1783 (Middleton’s Biographia Evangelica) ‘from the original picture in the Library, Red Cross Street’, [i.e. Dr Williams’s Library]. Differing from the Kneller in showing a flatter-topped wig and broader bands.
c.1690
Painting by Godfrey Kneller, see NPG 265.
Doubtful Portraits
Painting by John Closterman, half-length oval in gown and bands, inscribed Ao Dom.1702 Aeta Suae.80. Christ’s College, Cambridge (M. Rogers, ‘John and John Baptist Closterman: a catalogue of their works’, Wal. Soc., XLIX, 1983, no.116 as Unknown Man; J. W. Goodison, Catalogue of the Portraits in Christ’s, Clare and Sidney Sussex Colleges, 1985, no.47 as called Howe).
Painting attributed to Riley, bust-length, dark wig, large dark eyes, broad bands, an arch-topped fragment let into a larger canvas. Exhibited Third Exhibition of National Portraits, South Kensington, 1868, no.742, lent Edgar Disney.
An engraving by Bidley ‘from an Original Picture in the Possession of the Author’ (E. Calamy, Nonconformists Memorial, II, 1802, f.p.81) approximates to the Kneller type.
This extended catalogue entry is by John Ingamells, one of a limited number of entries drafted in 2010 for the incomplete catalogue, Early Stuart Portraits 1625-1685, and is as written 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.