William Doughty

Inscriptionback to top

The original stretcher was inscribed in a contemporary hand: Mr Doughty a Pupil of/Sir Joshua Reynolds and Mary Brook.

This portraitback to top

NPG 2513 probably dates from 1776. On 28 July that year Doughty told Northcote that William Mason had visited him and seemed ‘well pleased with me. My own picture he liked so well that he desired a copy of it. but I offered him the original which he did me the honour to accept’. [1]

Footnotesback to top

1) W. T. Whitley, Artists and their Friends in England 1700-1799, 1928, II, pp 303-04.

Referenceback to top

Ingamells 1964
J. Ingamells, Apollo, LXXX, 1964, pp 33, 35.

Physical descriptionback to top

Grey eyes, powdered hair tied with a black ribbon, wearing a green coat.

Provenanceback to top

William Mason; Mary Brook; E. Gurney of Ashford, from whom purchased 1931.

Exhibitionsback to top

A Candidate for Praise, William Mason 1725-97, Precentor of York, York, 1973 (103).


This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: John Ingamells, National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian Portraits 1760-1790, National Portrait Gallery, 2004, 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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