Mid-Georgian Portraits Catalogue

Sir Watkin Lewes (1740?-1821), Politician and Lord Mayor of London

MP 1781-96; alderman 1772, sheriff 1772-73 and lord mayor 1780-81 of the City of London; Kt 1773; his career facilitated by his marriage to Rebecca Popkin, a Welsh heiress.


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.