Peter Mews, Bishop of Winchester (1619-1706)
British (English) School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1685
Materials
Oil on panel
Measurements
1460 x 1225 x 80 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Dunster Castle, Somerset
NT 726070
Summary
Oil painting on panel, Peter Mews, Bishop of Winchester (1619-1706), English school, circa 1685. A three-quarter-length portrait of Peter Mews, Bishop of Winchester, in his robes, with a patch on his cheek, covering a scar from a wound sustained in the Civil War, his right hand resting on a helmet.
Provenance
In 1910 inventory; previously on loan, 1975; gift of Lt-Col Geoffrey Walter Fownes Luttrell (1919 – 2007) to the National Trust in 1981
Credit line
Dunster Castle, The Luttrell Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
British (English) School, artist
References
Ingamells 1981 John Ingamells, The English Episcopal Portrait 1559-1835, 1981, p. 294, B Ingamells, 2009: John Ingamells, Later Stuart Portraits 1685-1714, National Portrait Gallery, London, 2009, pp. 181-182