Regency Portraits Catalogue
Sir Henry Charles Englefield, 7th Bt (1752-1822), Natural philosopher and antiquary
- Gallery portraits
- All known portraits
- Biography and References
1787
Oil by Reynolds in private collection Suffolk, half-length to left in brown coat and mass of fair hair, exhibited RA 1787 (69) when Walpole noted in his catalogue 'the best portrait in the room', and exhibited again RA 1901 lent by Mrs Silvertop, widow of Englefield's grandson; the present owner, a great-granddaughter through his illegitimate son to whom he left most of his property, also owns a miniature copy by Ozias Humphry; another version by Reynolds is in a private collection London.
1794
Chalk drawing by Dance (NPG 1142).
c.1800
Drawing by Edridge engraved by Evans, head and shoulders to right in tie-wig, undated but probably about 1800. A later Edridge drawing, head and shoulders to left with short hair holding a paper, was engraved by Picart and published in 1812 in Contemporary Portraits.
1813
Oil by Lawrence in Dilettanti Society collection exhibited RA 1813 (28), engraved by Bromley and reproduced in Sir Cecil Harcourt-Smith, The Society of Dilettanti, 1932.
1815
Oil by Phillips (NPG 4659).
1817
Medal attributed to Henry Moses (NPG 2000).
1818
Marble bust by Chantrey in Cleveland Museum, Ohio, exhibited RA, 1818 (1103); a drawing for this in V&A Museum is dated 1817 (Dawson Turner, I) and the plaster model is Ashmolean Museum (560-48) incised with monogram HCE; £100 was paid to Chantrey in 1820 (Sir Francis Chantrey’s Ledgers of Accounts, p 71).
1819
Medals by G. Mills, profile to left, one with dates in Arabic the other in Greek numerals (Laurence Brown, British Historical Medals, 1980, 977-8).
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Walker, Regency Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, 1985, 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.
Oil by Reynolds in private collection Suffolk, half-length to left in brown coat and mass of fair hair, exhibited RA 1787 (69) when Walpole noted in his catalogue 'the best portrait in the room', and exhibited again RA 1901 lent by Mrs Silvertop, widow of Englefield's grandson; the present owner, a great-granddaughter through his illegitimate son to whom he left most of his property, also owns a miniature copy by Ozias Humphry; another version by Reynolds is in a private collection London.
1794
Chalk drawing by Dance (NPG 1142).
c.1800
Drawing by Edridge engraved by Evans, head and shoulders to right in tie-wig, undated but probably about 1800. A later Edridge drawing, head and shoulders to left with short hair holding a paper, was engraved by Picart and published in 1812 in Contemporary Portraits.
1813
Oil by Lawrence in Dilettanti Society collection exhibited RA 1813 (28), engraved by Bromley and reproduced in Sir Cecil Harcourt-Smith, The Society of Dilettanti, 1932.
1815
Oil by Phillips (NPG 4659).
1817
Medal attributed to Henry Moses (NPG 2000).
1818
Marble bust by Chantrey in Cleveland Museum, Ohio, exhibited RA, 1818 (1103); a drawing for this in V&A Museum is dated 1817 (Dawson Turner, I) and the plaster model is Ashmolean Museum (560-48) incised with monogram HCE; £100 was paid to Chantrey in 1820 (Sir Francis Chantrey’s Ledgers of Accounts, p 71).
1819
Medals by G. Mills, profile to left, one with dates in Arabic the other in Greek numerals (Laurence Brown, British Historical Medals, 1980, 977-8).
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Walker, Regency Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, 1985, 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.