Later Stuart Portraits Catalogue
Antonio Verrio (1639?-1707), Decorative painter
- Gallery portraits
- All known portraits
- Biography and References
c.1674
Painting by Benedetto Gennari, ‘un piccolo ritratto ovato del sig. Antonio Verrio pittore napolitano e gliene feci’ (P. Bagni, Benedetto Gennari e la bottega del Guercino, 1986, p 153, no.58). Untraced.
c.1680
Painting by Antonio Verrio, with Kneller and Baptist May, watching Christ healing the sick, formerly on the north wall of the Chapel of St George’s Hall, Windsor. Destroyed c.1824 (G. Vertue, Notebooks, Wal. Soc., XXIV, 1936, p 119).
c.1688-90
Painting by Godfrey Kneller, half-length oval, dark wig, head turned to his right, a porcupine before him. Burghley House (80; J. D. Stewart, Godfrey Kneller, 1983, no.823, pl.21d). Exhibited Third and concluding Exhibition of National Portraits ( ... fortieth year of the reign of George the third to MDCCCLXVII), South Kensington, 1868, no.739; Italian Art and Britain, RA, 1960, no.49. Painted for the Order of Little Bedlam, a club founded in 1684 by the 5th Earl of Exeter, for whom each member had his portrait painted with an emblematic animal (see J. D. Stewart, Godfrey Kneller, 1983, pp 33-34). A portrait of Verrio by Kneller was in the artist’s collection c.1714 (G. Vertue, Notebooks, Wal. Soc., XVIII, 1930, p 29) and Kneller also painted Verrio’s ‘wifes & two sons pictures’, left at Burghley in 1694 (E. Croft-Murray, Decorative Painting in England, I, Early Tudor to Sir James Thornhill, 1962, p 58).
c.1690-95
Painting by Antonio Verrio, a half-length naked figure seated by the Cyclops’ forge in Verrio’s Heaven Room fresco at Burghley (illus. E. Croft-Murray, Decorative Painting in England, I, Early Tudor to Sir James Thornhill, 1962, pl.105; discernible in V. Leatham, Burghley, 1992, f.p.177.
c.1690-95?
Painting by Antonio Verrio, standing half-length, wearing dark wig, his palette in his left hand, with Brig. Robert Killigrew by his side, signed. Christie’s, 27 April 2007, lot 29, from Edward Croft-Murray’s collection; and previously at Thornham Hall (G. Vertue, Notebooks, Wal. Soc., XXIV, 1936, p 16; E. Farrer, Portraits in Thornham Hall, c.1930, p 37, illus.; E. K. Waterhouse, The Dictionary of 16th & 17th Century British Painters, 1988, p 284 illus.).
c.1690?
Unattributed portrait, engraved A. Bannerman 1763 (Walpole, Anecdotes), half-length standing, wearing dark wig, brush in left hand (i.e. a reversed plate).
c.1704
Painting by Antonio Verrio, see NPG 2890.
Doubtful Portraits
The so-called self portrait at Althorp, bespectacled and with his own long hair, bearing a later inscription Verrio the painter, engraved H. Robinson from a copy by E. Pretty, is now thought to show Luca Giordano (K. J. Garlick, ‘A Catalogue of Pictures at Althorp’, Wal. Soc., XLV, 1976, no.238).
An oval self portrait of Verrio, ‘the celebrated flowerpainter’, in blue velvet cap and cloak lined with red, a vase of flowers in the background, was in the Broughton Castle sale, Enoch & Redfern, 10 July ff., 1837, lot 153, but clearly represented another painter.
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.
Painting by Benedetto Gennari, ‘un piccolo ritratto ovato del sig. Antonio Verrio pittore napolitano e gliene feci’ (P. Bagni, Benedetto Gennari e la bottega del Guercino, 1986, p 153, no.58). Untraced.
c.1680
Painting by Antonio Verrio, with Kneller and Baptist May, watching Christ healing the sick, formerly on the north wall of the Chapel of St George’s Hall, Windsor. Destroyed c.1824 (G. Vertue, Notebooks, Wal. Soc., XXIV, 1936, p 119).
c.1688-90
Painting by Godfrey Kneller, half-length oval, dark wig, head turned to his right, a porcupine before him. Burghley House (80; J. D. Stewart, Godfrey Kneller, 1983, no.823, pl.21d). Exhibited Third and concluding Exhibition of National Portraits ( ... fortieth year of the reign of George the third to MDCCCLXVII), South Kensington, 1868, no.739; Italian Art and Britain, RA, 1960, no.49. Painted for the Order of Little Bedlam, a club founded in 1684 by the 5th Earl of Exeter, for whom each member had his portrait painted with an emblematic animal (see J. D. Stewart, Godfrey Kneller, 1983, pp 33-34). A portrait of Verrio by Kneller was in the artist’s collection c.1714 (G. Vertue, Notebooks, Wal. Soc., XVIII, 1930, p 29) and Kneller also painted Verrio’s ‘wifes & two sons pictures’, left at Burghley in 1694 (E. Croft-Murray, Decorative Painting in England, I, Early Tudor to Sir James Thornhill, 1962, p 58).
c.1690-95
Painting by Antonio Verrio, a half-length naked figure seated by the Cyclops’ forge in Verrio’s Heaven Room fresco at Burghley (illus. E. Croft-Murray, Decorative Painting in England, I, Early Tudor to Sir James Thornhill, 1962, pl.105; discernible in V. Leatham, Burghley, 1992, f.p.177.
c.1690-95?
Painting by Antonio Verrio, standing half-length, wearing dark wig, his palette in his left hand, with Brig. Robert Killigrew by his side, signed. Christie’s, 27 April 2007, lot 29, from Edward Croft-Murray’s collection; and previously at Thornham Hall (G. Vertue, Notebooks, Wal. Soc., XXIV, 1936, p 16; E. Farrer, Portraits in Thornham Hall, c.1930, p 37, illus.; E. K. Waterhouse, The Dictionary of 16th & 17th Century British Painters, 1988, p 284 illus.).
c.1690?
Unattributed portrait, engraved A. Bannerman 1763 (Walpole, Anecdotes), half-length standing, wearing dark wig, brush in left hand (i.e. a reversed plate).
c.1704
Painting by Antonio Verrio, see NPG 2890.
Doubtful Portraits
The so-called self portrait at Althorp, bespectacled and with his own long hair, bearing a later inscription Verrio the painter, engraved H. Robinson from a copy by E. Pretty, is now thought to show Luca Giordano (K. J. Garlick, ‘A Catalogue of Pictures at Althorp’, Wal. Soc., XLV, 1976, no.238).
An oval self portrait of Verrio, ‘the celebrated flowerpainter’, in blue velvet cap and cloak lined with red, a vase of flowers in the background, was in the Broughton Castle sale, Enoch & Redfern, 10 July ff., 1837, lot 153, but clearly represented another painter.
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.