Regency Portraits Catalogue

Beilby Porteus (1731-1809), Bishop of London

Bishop of Chester 1776-87 and of London 1787-1808. Huge crowds attended his Lenten Lectures in St James's Piccadilly.


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.