Later Stuart Portraits Catalogue
James Berkeley, 3rd Earl of Berkeley (1680-1736), Admiral
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Naval officer, member of the Kit-Cat Club; sty. Viscount Dursley 1699-1710; captain 1701; MP 1701-02; served in the Mediterranean 1704-07; summoned to the Lords as Ld. Berkeley 1705; succeeded as 3rd Earl 1710, retiring from active naval service; lord of the bedchamber 1714-27; first lord of the Admiralty 1717-27; KG 1718; deprived of office 1727 for his opposition to Robert Walpole.
‘a boisterous, zealous whig seaman’ (Horace Walpole).
‘rough, proud, hard and obstinate, with excellent good natural parts, but so uncultivated that he was totally ignorant of every branch of knowledge but in his own profession’ (Lord Hervey, Memoirs of George II).
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 boisterous, zealous whig seaman’ (Horace Walpole).
‘rough, proud, hard and obstinate, with excellent good natural parts, but so uncultivated that he was totally ignorant of every branch of knowledge but in his own profession’ (Lord Hervey, Memoirs of George II).
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.