Early Georgian Portraits Catalogue
Sir John Willes (1685-1761), Judge
- Gallery portraits
- All known portraits
- Biography and References
Chief Justice of Common Pleas; MA Trinity College, Oxford, 1707; fellow of All Souls College, Oxford; barrister, Lincoln's Inn, 1713; MP, 1722-37; judge on Chester circuit, 1726; attorney-general, 1734; knighted, 1734; chief justice of common pleas, 1737; senior commissioner of great seal, 1756-57.
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: John Kerslake, Early Georgian Portraits, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1977, 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.
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: John Kerslake, Early Georgian Portraits, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1977, 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.