Later Stuart Portraits Catalogue
Thomas Tenison (1636-1715), Archbishop of Canterbury
- Gallery portraits
- All known portraits
- Biography and References
Primate; Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; BA 1657, MA 1660, BD 1667 and DD 1680; edited the papers of Sir Thomas Browne; an active controversialist, an advocate of tolerance towards Dissenters and a pioneer of charity schools and public libraries; Bishop of Lincoln 1691; Archbishop of Canterbury 1695; his Whig sympathies were not approved by Queen Anne and his last years were plagued by illness.
‘a plain, good, heavy, Man, now much in Years, and wearing out; very tall, of a fair Complexion, and seventy Years old’ (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.
‘a plain, good, heavy, Man, now much in Years, and wearing out; very tall, of a fair Complexion, and seventy Years old’ (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.