Preface [n. pag.]
In the spring of 1865 the late Earl of Derby addressed a letter to the Lords of the Committee of Council on Education, suggesting that ‘a National Portrait Exhibition, chronologically arranged, might not only possess great historical interest, by bringing together portraits of all the most eminent contemporaries of their respective eras, but might also serve to illustrate the progress and condition, at various periods, of British art.’ The suggestion was acted upon. […] and in April 1866, the first Exhibition was opened at South Kensington, consisting of pictures of a date not later than the close of the reign of James II.
Contents
Wycliffe 11Hugh Latimer 21
John Knox 31
George Buchanan 43
Lady Jane Grey 57
John Foxe 61
Sir Philip Sidney 69
Sir Walter Raleigh 81
William Harvey 91
John Pym 101
John Hampden 111
Lord Falkland 121
John Milton 129
Andrew Marvell 147
Richard Baxter 157
John Owen 167
Jeremy Taylor 177
Bishop Ken 187
Sir Matthew Hale 197
Sir Christopher Wren 215