Later Stuart Portraits Catalogue

Sir Anthony Deane (circa 1638-1720?), Shipbuilder

Shipbuilder; assistant-master shipwright at Woolwich 1660; master shipwright at Harwich 1664 and Portsmouth 1668-1715; by order of the king built two yachts for Louis XIV 1675; Kt. 1675; MP 1678, 1679, 1685; FRS 1681; special commissioner of the Navy 1685-88; wrote A Doctrine of Naval Architecture 1670; Pepys, who greatly helped his career, thought him ‘a very just man, only a little conceited, yet very able in his way’ (1664).


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.