Later Stuart Portraits Catalogue
Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond and Lennox (1672-1723), Courtier; son of King Charles II
- Gallery portraits
- All known portraits
- Biography and References
Landowner, member of the Kit-Cat Club; illegitimate son of Charles II by Louise de Kéroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth; created Duke of Richmond and Duke of Lennox (S) 1675; KG 1681; naturalized as a French Catholic 1685; returned to England 1688 as a Protestant; ADC to William III 1693-1702; Grand Master of Freemasons 1696-97; lord of the bedchamber from 1714; ‘he filled various more or less public offices, yet his unfortunate propensity for being everything by turns and nothing long effectually militated against any chance of his name being emblazoned upon the scroll of fame’ (Earl of March, 1911); bought the hunting lodge at Goodwood 1697.
‘a Gentleman Good-natured to a Fault; very well bred, … an Enemy to Business, very credulous, well Shaped, Black Complexion, much like Charles; not Thirty Years old’ (J. Macky, Characters of the Court of Great Britain, 1733).
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.
‘a Gentleman Good-natured to a Fault; very well bred, … an Enemy to Business, very credulous, well Shaped, Black Complexion, much like Charles; not Thirty Years old’ (J. Macky, Characters of the Court of Great Britain, 1733).
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.