Richard Beadon

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Inscribed on the reverse: Richard Beadon/the Right Revd/the Lord Bishop/of Bath & Wells//Lu Gahagan/fecit Bath -/June 25/1823.

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Executed when Beadon was already semi-retired; ‘for the last few years of his life he was rendered incapable of discharging his episcopal duties by the infirmities of old age’ (DNB).

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Ingamells 1981
J. Ingamells, The English Episcopal Portrait 1559-1835, 1981.

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In civilian dress, hands in his lap.

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Bought in Bath by Cyril Humphris and presented by him 1972.


This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: John Ingamells, National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian Portraits 1760-1790, National Portrait Gallery, 2004, 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.

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