Later Stuart Portraits Catalogue
Elizabeth Pepys (1640-1669), Wife of Samuel Pepys
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An itinerant childhood was spent in Ireland, Devon, Germany, Flanders and France; when about to become an Ursuline nun in Paris, summoned to London by her father; married Samuel Pepys 1655, she fifteen, he twenty-two; in 1669 she accompanied her husband and brother on a tour to northern France where she contracted a fever from which she died; ‘gay, pretty, headstrong yet devoted, but not entirely practical’ (Samuel Pepys Esqre, exhibition catalogue, NPG, 1970, p 9).
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.
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.