Peter Mews

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Closely related to a Loggan drawing in the British Museum (1854-8-12-34) which differs only in detail, showing, for example, less linear drapery folds and a different outline to the cap. [1] The type was engraved by Loggan (ad vivum deliniavit et sculpsit), an example is NPG 637 but the plate does not precisely resemble either drawing; a second state shows the Garter Badge, i.e. after 1684 when Mews became Prelate of that Order.
A painted version sold Puttick & Simpson, 17 July 1890, lot 78; a crudely painted, reversed, version is in the Bishop’s Palace, Exeter.

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1) E. Croft-Murray & P. Hulton, British Museum, Catalogue of British Drawings: XVI and XVII centuries, 1960, I, p 432, II, pl.228. Either this or NPG 1872 may have been the Loggan drawing in the William Esdaile sale, 3rd part, Christie’s, 18-25 June 1840, lot 1274, with a drawing of Dr Willis, bought Wellesley.

Referenceback to top

Bell & Poole 1926
C. F. Bell & R. L. Poole, Wal. Soc., XIV, 1926, p 63.

Ingamells 1981
J. Ingamells, The English Episcopal Portrait 1559-1835, catalogue, 1981, p 293.

Piper 1963
D. Piper, Catalogue of the Seventeenth Century Portraits in the National Portrait Gallery 1625-1714, 1963, p 234.

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Carfrae collection;¹ Alfred A. de Pass (1861-1952), by whom presented 1920.

¹ As stated by the donor (letter of 9 June 1920 on file). The Carfraes were an East Lothian family; Robert Carfrae (d. 1900) was curator of the National Museum of Antiquities, Edinburgh.


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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