Later Stuart Portraits Catalogue
Charles de Marquetel de Saint-Evremond (1613?-1703), Wit and courtier
- Gallery portraits
- All known portraits
- Biography and References
Saint-Evremond was over fifty when he settled in London and around eighty when most of his known portraits were painted. More portraits must remain to be identified.
c.1692-93
Painting by Godfrey Kneller, half-length wearing black with white hair, skullcap and white cravat, signed. Althorp by 1746 (K. J. Garlick, ‘A Catalogue of Pictures at Althorp’, Wal. Soc., XLV, 1976, no.345; J. D. Stewart, Godfrey Kneller, 1983, no.642). Engraved R. White as aged 80.
c.1693
Painting by Godfrey Kneller, half-length wearing brown with white hair, skullcap and white cravat, signed. Philip Mould 2008. Possibly the ‘remarkably fine’ portrait of Saint-Evremond by Kneller in Thomas Hudson’s sale, 2nd day, Christie’s, 26 February 1785, lot 79, and in the Bessborough sale, Christie’s, 10 November 1850, lot 121. The head at a similar angle to that in the Althorp portrait, but he may be a little older, according to the size of the wen.
c.1701
Painting by Jacques Parmentier, see NPG 566.
A ‘somewhat damaged’ half-length, showing him with the wen, skullcap and cloak, looking at the title page of a Don Quixote, was brought to the NPG for opinion in 1961; no further details recorded.
Posthumous
c.1776
Wedgwood medallion, bareheaded, without the wen (R. Reilly & G. Savage, Wedgwood, the Portrait Medallions, 1973, p 297 illus.). The source is not known; quite unlike the Parmentier and Kneller portraits.
Doubtful Portraits
Portrait by Caspar Netscher from Bridgewater House, listed by G. F. Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain, II, p 44 as the Duchess of Mazarin and M. de St Evremont, has nothing whatever to do with him (M. E. Wieseman, Caspar Netscher, 2002, p 288, no.173).
Portrait attributed to Maubert from Melbury (Catalogue of Pictures belonging to the Earl of Ilchester, 1883, no. 96, and Addenda and Corrigenda to Catalogue of Pictures at Melbury 1883, 1939, p 12); whole-length seated, wearing black cap and a blue wrap, a dog in his lap.
An unspecified head of Saint-Evremond was in the Halifax sale, 2nd day, 7 March 1740, lot 39 [sic].
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.
c.1692-93
Painting by Godfrey Kneller, half-length wearing black with white hair, skullcap and white cravat, signed. Althorp by 1746 (K. J. Garlick, ‘A Catalogue of Pictures at Althorp’, Wal. Soc., XLV, 1976, no.345; J. D. Stewart, Godfrey Kneller, 1983, no.642). Engraved R. White as aged 80.
c.1693
Painting by Godfrey Kneller, half-length wearing brown with white hair, skullcap and white cravat, signed. Philip Mould 2008. Possibly the ‘remarkably fine’ portrait of Saint-Evremond by Kneller in Thomas Hudson’s sale, 2nd day, Christie’s, 26 February 1785, lot 79, and in the Bessborough sale, Christie’s, 10 November 1850, lot 121. The head at a similar angle to that in the Althorp portrait, but he may be a little older, according to the size of the wen.
c.1701
Painting by Jacques Parmentier, see NPG 566.
A ‘somewhat damaged’ half-length, showing him with the wen, skullcap and cloak, looking at the title page of a Don Quixote, was brought to the NPG for opinion in 1961; no further details recorded.
Posthumous
c.1776
Wedgwood medallion, bareheaded, without the wen (R. Reilly & G. Savage, Wedgwood, the Portrait Medallions, 1973, p 297 illus.). The source is not known; quite unlike the Parmentier and Kneller portraits.
Doubtful Portraits
Portrait by Caspar Netscher from Bridgewater House, listed by G. F. Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain, II, p 44 as the Duchess of Mazarin and M. de St Evremont, has nothing whatever to do with him (M. E. Wieseman, Caspar Netscher, 2002, p 288, no.173).
Portrait attributed to Maubert from Melbury (Catalogue of Pictures belonging to the Earl of Ilchester, 1883, no. 96, and Addenda and Corrigenda to Catalogue of Pictures at Melbury 1883, 1939, p 12); whole-length seated, wearing black cap and a blue wrap, a dog in his lap.
An unspecified head of Saint-Evremond was in the Halifax sale, 2nd day, 7 March 1740, lot 39 [sic].
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.