Later Stuart Portraits Catalogue

Religious writer; she married 1) 1678 Robert Berkeley (1650-94) and 2) 1700, as his third wife, Bishop Gilbert Burnet, who already had five children by his second marriage; a devout and charitable woman, she published A Method of Devotion 1708 and sponsored schools for poor children in Worcester and Salisbury; travelled in northern Europe in 1685 and, with her step-children, in 1707; her first marriage was childless and two daughters of her second died in infancy.


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.