Mid-Georgian Portraits Catalogue
Samuel Horsley (1733-1806), Bishop of St Asaph; Secretary of the Royal Society
- Gallery portraits
- All known portraits
- Biography and References
Prelate; Bishop of St David’s 1788-93, Rochester 1793-1802 and St Asaph 1802-06; Dean of Westminster and Dean of the Order of the Bath 1793-1802; FRS 1767 and secretary 1773-76; apart from theological tracts, published the works of Isaac Newton 1785 and papers on astronomy and Euclid; member of Dr Johnson’s Club 1783.
[at the age of seventeen] ‘his eyes and his complexion dark as a raven, his nose even set, his brows begin to shew that they are somewhat capable of assuming his father’s frown’ (William Cleghorn, 1750).
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: John Ingamells, National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian Portraits 1760-1790, National Portrait Gallery, 2004, 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.
[at the age of seventeen] ‘his eyes and his complexion dark as a raven, his nose even set, his brows begin to shew that they are somewhat capable of assuming his father’s frown’ (William Cleghorn, 1750).
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: John Ingamells, National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian Portraits 1760-1790, National Portrait Gallery, 2004, 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.