Sir Anthony Deane

Inscriptionback to top

Inscribed on lining canvas: Anty. Deane/G. Kneller fecit/1690/(copied from the original canvas).

This portraitback to top

The identity is confirmed by the inscription on the verso and by an inscribed oval wash drawing copy in the Pepys Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge (2979/127B). [1]

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1) Cat., III, 1994, p 83; illus. Diary of Samuel Pepys, ed. Braybrooke & Bright, 1876, II, f.p.27).

Referenceback to top

Piper 1963
D. Piper, Catalogue of the Seventeenth Century Portraits in the National Portrait Gallery 1625-1714, 1963, pp 104-05.

Stewart 1983
J. D. Stewart, Godfrey Kneller, 1983, no.211.

Provenanceback to top

Anon. Sale, Christie’s, 31 May 1926, lot 126; purchased 1926.


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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