Early Georgian Portraits Catalogue
Jeremiah Milles (1714-1784), Antiquary
- Gallery portraits
- All known portraits
- Biography and References
Antiquary; educated at Eton and Oxford; travelled in Europe, 1733-37; held treasureship of Lismore Cathedral, 1735-45; precentor of Waterford, 1737-44; FSA, 1741; FRS, 1742; member of the Egyptian Club; married Edith, daughter of John Potter, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1745, and held from 1746, among various preferments, St Edmund the King with St Nicholas Acons, in the City of London; DD, precentor and prebendary of Exeter, 1747, dean, 1762; president of the Society of Antiquaries, 1768-84; many of his MSS including descriptive accounts of his travels are now in the British Museum.
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: John Kerslake, Early Georgian Portraits, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1977, 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.
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: John Kerslake, Early Georgian Portraits, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1977, 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.