Simon Patrick

1 portrait on display at Lyme Park, Stockport

Simon Patrick, by Sir Peter Lely, circa 1668 -NPG 1500 - © National Portrait Gallery, London

© National Portrait Gallery, London

Later Stuart Portraits Catalogue

Simon Patrick

by Sir Peter Lely
circa 1668
29 1/2 in. x 24 1/2 in. (749 mm x 622 mm)
NPG 1500

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Dated according to the apparent age of the sitter. A portrait of Mrs Patrick belonging to the Kerrich family has been described as the companion piece, but the attribution is dubious and the pose does not balance that of NPG 1500. [1]

Footnotesback to top

1) R. B. Beckett, Lely, 1951, no.413 when with Miss Kerrich, Beccles (Prince Frederick Duleep Singh, Portraits in Norfolk Houses, I, pp 172-73, no.31, Geldeston Hall, illus). Patrick married 1675 Penelope Jephson (1625-1710).

Referenceback to top

Beckett 1951
R. B. Beckett, Lely, 1951, no.412.

Ingamells 1981
J. Ingamells, The English Episcopal Portrait 1559-1835, catalogue, 1981, p 320.

Piper 1963
D. Piper, Catalogue of the Seventeenth Century Portraits in the National Portrait Gallery 1625-1714, 1963, p 265.

Provenanceback to top

W. T. E. Fosbery of Wickford, Essex,1 from whom purchased 1908.

1 Piper indicated Fosbery’s descent from the sitter via the Kerrich family; John Kerrich married the sitter’s granddaughter; their daughter married George Gooch; their daughter married 1831 T. V. Fosbery, father of W. T. E. Fosbery.

Exhibitionsback to top

Lyme Park 1983–.


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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