Later Stuart Portraits Catalogue
Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), Lord Treasurer
- Gallery portraits
- All known portraits
- Biography and References
Statesman; Middle Temple 1682; MP 1689-90, 1690-1711; speaker 1701-05; secretary of state (north) 1704-08; created Earl of Oxford 1711; chancellor of the exchequer 1710-11; lord treasurer 1711-14; FRS 1712; KG 1712 (installed 1713); dismissed from office 1714 on suspicion of Jacobitism; impeached and imprisoned 1715 but acquitted 1717; his remarkable collection of manuscripts and private papers formed the basis of the Harleian collection now in the British Library (greatly expanded by his son, Edward, 2nd Earl).
‘of a low Stature, and slender; turned of Forty’ (J. Macky, Characters of the Court of Great Britain, 1733).
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.
‘of a low Stature, and slender; turned of Forty’ (J. Macky, Characters of the Court of Great Britain, 1733).
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.