Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.19552

    Portrait of Francis Atterbury

    Date
    c.1715
    Sitter
    Francis Atterbury (1663 - 1732, British) , Clergyman
    Creator
    Michael Vandergucht (1660 - 1725, Flemish) , Engraver
    Philip Overton (British) , Publisher
    After
    Godfrey Kneller (1646 - 1723, British) , Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 240mm
    width (print): 195mm
    Subject
    Description
    Half-length portrait of Francis Atterbury, turned to the right [as viewed], looking directly out at the viewer. With a curled wig, bands and episcopal robes, in an oval frame, with the coat of arms below. From a portrait by Godfrey Kneller.

    Inscribed below: ‘G. Kneller Eq. Bar.t Pinx. M V. dr Gucht Sculp.
    The R.t Reverend Father in God
    FRANCIS LORD BISHOP OF ROCHESTER
    And DEAN OF Westminster […]’

    Engraving from MS/648/5 Collectanea Newtoniana. A collection of prints and original artworks relating to Sir Isaac Newton, compiled and arranged by Charles Turnor, 1837.

    Francis Atterbury (1663–1732), bishop of Rochester, politician, and Jacobite conspirator, was not a Fellow of the Royal Society.
    Object history
    Charles Turnor presented his Collectanea Newtoniana. Being a selection of the most authentic engraved portraits of Sir Isaac Newton Knt., and other eminent Philosophers Mathematicians and Distinguished Men … to the Royal Society in 1837.
    Related fellows
    Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727, British) , Natural philosopher
    Charles Turnor (1768 - 1853) , Collector
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