Richard Baxter

Inscriptionback to top

Inscribed centre: Aeta. (left), and Suae:76 (right).

This portraitback to top

A crudely painted version of the White engraving discussed under NPG 521.

Referenceback to top

Piper 1963
D. Piper, Catalogue of the Seventeenth Century Portraits in the National Portrait Gallery 1625–1714, 1963, p 22.

Provenanceback to top

Rev. Philip Henry; Rev. Farnes [Fownes?] of Salop; his executor James Mason, by whom presented 1789 to Thomas Stedman;¹ Thomas Kerslake, by whom bequeathed 1891.

¹ A MS label formerly verso: This Portrait/of the Rev^d. & Learned/M^r Richard Baxter/belonged formerly to the/Rev^d M^r Philip Henry;/from whose relations it came to/the Rev^d Mr Farnes of Salop/and was presented to Thomas Stedman/by James Mason Esq^r/M^r Farnes’ Executor/Nov^r. 16.1789.


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