Later Stuart Portraits Catalogue
Humphrey Wanley (1672-1726), Librarian and antiquary
- Gallery portraits
- All known portraits
- Biography and References
Antiquarian; came to Oxford from Coventry 1695, residing at St Edmund’s Hall, and later at University College; assistant at the Bodleian Library 1695, cataloguing Anglo-Saxon manuscripts (to be published as Librorum veterum septentrionalium …, 1705); came to London 1700; secretary to the Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge 1702-08; FRS 1706; librarian to the Harleys, Earls of Oxford, from 1708, for whom he built up and continued to catalogue the extraordinary Harleian library; Thomas Hearne, a jealous academic, described him as ‘talking big’ and ‘strutting mightily about’ at Oxford.
His face ‘absolutely peppered with variolous indentations’ (Dibdin).
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.
His face ‘absolutely peppered with variolous indentations’ (Dibdin).
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.