Later Stuart Portraits Catalogue
Tregonwell Frampton (1641-1727), Known as 'Father of the turf'
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‘Father of the Turf’; a successful but somewhat unscrupulous racehorse trainer, one of the first commoners to run horses at Newmarket; keeper of the Royal running horses by 1695, a salaried post he retained until death.
‘his clothes were described as uncouth and old-fashioned. He never changed his style of dress, and would turn up at court dressed in his normal clothes enquiring in the most familiar manner of the king or queen’ (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography).
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.
‘his clothes were described as uncouth and old-fashioned. He never changed his style of dress, and would turn up at court dressed in his normal clothes enquiring in the most familiar manner of the king or queen’ (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography).
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.