Later Stuart Portraits Catalogue
Edward Stillingfleet (1635-1699), Bishop of Worcester
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Prelate; St John’s College, Cambridge; BA 1653, MA 1656; royal chaplain 1667; DD 1668; Dean of St Paul’s 1678-89; Bishop of Worcester 1689-99; a noted preacher, theologian and antiquarian; Burnet considered him the ‘learnedest man of the age in all respects’; he had ‘a strong healthy constitution, and in all probability would have enjoy’d it much longer, had he not impaired it by constant hard study ….’
‘a handsome man, of a high colour and bright vigorous expression … nicknamed “the beauty of holiness”’ (Dictionary of National Biography).
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.
‘a handsome man, of a high colour and bright vigorous expression … nicknamed “the beauty of holiness”’ (Dictionary of National Biography).
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.