Samuel Clarke

Inscriptionback to top

Incised on the socle: DR. …SAML. CLARKE, and, on the flat top of the base: Jame Verhyck [Derhijck?]/fect: Ienry: 2/1719.

This portraitback to top

The sculptor’s name is probably Netherlandish but has not been identified.

Referenceback to top

Simon & Saywell (eds.) 2004
Complete Illustrated Catalogue, NPG, ed. J. Simon & D. Saywell, 2004, p 127.

Provenanceback to top

David Peel, London, from whom purchased 1971.

Exhibitionsback to top

Beningbrough 1978–.


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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