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Geoffrey Chaucer

1 of 23 portraits of Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer

after Unknown artist
oil on panel, late 16th century, based on a work of 1400
12 in. x 10 3/4 in. (305 mm x 273 mm)
Transferred from British Museum, 1879
Primary Collection
NPG 532

Sitterback to top

Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?-1400), Poet. Sitter in 23 portraits.

Artistback to top

Unknown artist, Artist. Artist or producer associated with 6556 portraits.

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This small portrait may have been produced as part of a series for a library in the years when Chaucer's reputation was growing. It appears to derive, like all other portraits of Chaucer, from an illustration in an early fifteenth-century manuscript, Hoccleve's De Regimine Principum.

Related worksback to top

NPG D32927: Geoffrey Chaucer (after)
NPG D48942: Geoffrey Chaucer (after)

Linked publicationsback to top

100 Writers, p. 16
Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 120
Strong, Roy, Tudor and Jacobean Portraits, 1969, p. 47

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