Robert Boyle
1 of 32 portraits by Johann Kerseboom
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© National Portrait Gallery, London
Early Stuart Portraits Catalogue
Robert Boyle
after Johann Kerseboom
based on a work of circa 1689-1690
29 3/4 in. x 24 1/2 in. (756 mm x 622 mm)
NPG 734
Provenanceback to top
George Agar Ellis, Baron Dover (1797-1833), at Dover House, by 1833; purchased through Colnaghi 1885.
Exhibitionsback to top
Beningborough 1978; Apples to Atoms 1986-97; Glorious Revolution, the World of William and Mary, Nationale Stichtung de Nieuwe Workte, Amsterdam, 1988, no.405; Duchy of Lancaster, Whitehall, 1993; Gawthorpe Hall, 1995.
Reproductionsback to top
R. Woodman 1833 (for Knight’s Gallery of Portraits, 1833, from the picture in possession of Lord Dover).
This extended catalogue entry is by John Ingamells, one of a limited number of entries drafted in 2010 for the incomplete catalogue, Early Stuart Portraits 1625-1685, and is as written 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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On display at Gawthorpe Hall, Burnley