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Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax

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Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt, circa 1705 -NPG 3211 - © National Portrait Gallery, London

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Later Stuart Portraits Catalogue

Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax

by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
circa 1705
36 in. x 28 in. (914 mm x 711 mm)
NPG 3211

Inscriptionback to top

Signed, lower right: GK (monogram).

This portraitback to top

The Kit-Cat Club portrait. A version with the Bank of England, [1] and a copy by Benjamin Vandergucht formerly at Nuneham. [2] A half-length version sold Sotheby’s, 28 February 1990, lot 227. A drawing of this type by Edward Byng is in the British Museum. [3]

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1) Including coat of arms; purchased 1933; exhibited William and Mary, Arts Council, 1950, no.6.
2) Nuneham Park sale, Christie’s, 11 June 1948, lot 131; Catalogue of Pictures belonging to Lord Harcourt at Nuneham Park, 1806, p 17; Sir George Scharf’s Sketch Books, 75:56; E. W. Harcourt ed., The Harcourt Papers, III, p 250, no.90.
3) E. Croft-Murray & P. Hulton, British Museum, Catalogue of British Drawings: XVI and XVII centuries, 1960, p 241 (1897.8.13.7; Byng 6:f.45v).

Referenceback to top

Piper 1963
D. Piper, Catalogue of the Seventeenth Century Portraits in the National Portrait Gallery 1625-1714, 1963, p 151 as c.1703-10.

Stewart 1983
J. D. Stewart, Godfrey Kneller, 1983, no.326 as c.1705.

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J. Faber II 1732 (J. Chaloner Smith, British Mezzotinto Portraits, 208/19) with, bottom right, the lesser George and ribbon spilling into title area.


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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