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Sir Samuel Garth

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Sir Samuel Garth, by Unknown artist, circa 1698 -NPG 1076 - © National Portrait Gallery, London

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Later Stuart Portraits Catalogue

Sir Samuel Garth

by Unknown artist
circa 1698
29 in. x 24 1/2 in. (737 mm x 622 mm)
NPG 1076

This portraitback to top

The high wig suggests a date c.1698 (as Arnold suggested). The head is comparable with the portrait at Knole.

Referenceback to top

Arnold 1970
J. Arnold, Perukes & Periwigs, NPG, 1970, p 18.

Piper 1963
D. Piper, Catalogue of the Seventeenth Century Portraits in the National Portrait Gallery 1625-1714, 1963, p 133.

Provenanceback to top

S. C. Joyce, from whom purchased 1896 as by Kneller.

Exhibitionsback to top

Lyme Park 1997–.


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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