James Berkeley, 3rd Earl of Berkeley

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James Berkeley, 3rd Earl of Berkeley, by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt, circa 1710 -NPG 3195 - © National Portrait Gallery, London

© National Portrait Gallery, London

Later Stuart Portraits Catalogue

James Berkeley, 3rd Earl of Berkeley

by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
circa 1710
36 in. x 28 in. (914 mm x 711 mm)
NPG 3195

Inscriptionback to top

Signed, bottom left: GK (in monogram).

This portraitback to top

The Kit-Cat Club portrait. The burning ships in the background evoke Berkeley’s presence at the naval actions at Malaga 1704 and Toulon 1707.
A pen and ink copy by Edward Byng is in the British Museum. [1]

Footnotesback to top

1) E. Croft-Murray & P. Hulton, British Museum, Catalogue of British Drawings: XVI and XVII centuries,1960, p 241 (1897.8.13.7; Byng 6:f.48v).

Referenceback to top

Piper 1963
D. Piper, Catalogue of the Seventeenth Century Portraits in the National Portrait Gallery 1625-1714, 1963, p 27 as c.1710?.

Stewart 1983
J. D. Stewart, Godfrey Kneller, 1983, no.88 as c.1710.

Exhibitionsback to top

[the frame bears an Art Treasures, Manchester, 1857, label, but Berkeley does not appear in that catalogue].

Reproductionsback to top

J. Faber II 1731 (J. Chaloner Smith, British Mezzotinto Portraits, 208/16), with Garter ribbon.


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.

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