Arthur Maynwaring

Arthur Maynwaring, by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt, circa 1710 -NPG 3217 - © National Portrait Gallery, London

© National Portrait Gallery, London

Later Stuart Portraits Catalogue

Arthur Maynwaring

by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
circa 1710
36 in. x 28 in. (914 mm x 711 mm)
NPG 3217

Inscriptionback to top

Signed, lower right: GK (monogram).

This portraitback to top

The Kit-Cat Club portrait. The only known portrait of Maynwaring. A drawing of this type by Edward Byng is in the British Museum. [1]

Footnotesback to top

1) E. Croft-Murray & P. Hulton, British Museum, Catalogue of British Drawings: XVI and XVII centuries, 1960, p 245 (1897.8.13.8; Byng:7:f.20v).

Referenceback to top

Piper 1963
D. Piper, Catalogue of the Seventeenth Century Portraits in the National Portrait Gallery 1625-1714, 1963, p 231 as c.1705-10.

Stewart 1983
J. D. Stewart, Godfrey Kneller, 1983, p 62, no.487 as c.1710.

Reproductionsback to top

J. Simon, before 1715 (J. Chaloner Smith, British Mezzotinto Portraits, 103); J. Faber II 1733 (J. Chaloner Smith, British Mezzotinto Portraits, 208/42).


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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