James Craggs the Elder

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Inscribed upper left: JAMES CRAGGS ESQR/POSTMASTER GENERAL.

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Bearing a snuff-box in his right hand.
Previously attributed to Closterman, but NPG 1733 was omitted from Malcolm Rogers’ catalogue of his works; it may be compared with Murray’s portrait of Vanbrugh NPG 1568.

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Piper 1963
D. Piper, Catalogue of the Seventeenth Century Portraits in the National Portrait Gallery 1625-1714, 1963, p 87-88.

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Henry Armstrong, dealer, Darlington,¹ from whom purchased 1914.

¹ A label, verso, reads: For/the Rever. J.[?] T. Barker/ …


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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