William Fleetwood

Inscriptionback to top

Signed above his right shoulder: BL in monogram.

This portraitback to top

Comparable with the portrait formerly at Lambeth Palace.

Referenceback to top

Ingamells 1981
J. Ingamells, The English Episcopal Portrait 1559-1835, catalogue, 1981, p 187.

Simon & Saywell (eds.) 2004
Complete Illustrated Catalogue, NPG, ed. J. Simon & D. Saywell, 2004, p 221.

Provenanceback to top

Brig. G. Viner, Limner Antiques, from whom purchased 1977 (and see NPG 5118).

Exhibitionsback to top

Master Drawings from the National Portrait Gallery, Tulsa, Miami, Washington DC, Ottawa, NPG, Manchester, Carlisle, Canterbury, 1993–95, no.14 as c.1710.


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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