Joseph Wilcocks

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Title written in black, below: Joseph Wilcocks. S.T.P./Dean of Westminster.1731./From a Picture and Marble bust in the Deanery of Westminster.

This portraitback to top

One of a set of seventeen drawings by G. P. Harding engraved for the Deans of Westminster published in 1823 (see also Bradford NPG 2416). Wilcocks wears a Bishop’s rochet and chimere with the red ribbon of the Bath as Dean of that Order.
Both the portrait and the bust in the Westminster Deanery on which this drawing was based remain untraced today.

Referenceback to top

Simon & Saywell (eds.) 2004
Complete Illustrated Catalogue, NPG, ed. J. Simon & D. Saywell, 2004, pp 661, 745.

Provenanceback to top

J. B. Nicholls; his sale, Sotheby’s, 22 October 1929, part of lot 128, bought H. Breun, from whom purchased 1929.

Reproductionsback to top

R. Graves 1822 (titled as drawing; Deans of Westminster, 1823, no.13).


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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