Regency Portraits Catalogue

Richard Payne Knight (1751-1824), Art collector and writer

Gallery portraits
All known portraits
Biography and References

Numismatist, collector and arbiter of taste.

Clarke and Penny 1982
Michael Clarke & Nicholas Penny, The Arrogant Connoisseur, 1982.

Messman 1974
Frank Messman, Richard Payne Knight: the Twilight of Virtuosity, 1974.

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.

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