Portrait of John Moore

John Moore showed that he had truly ‘arrived’ when he had his portrait painted by Godfrey Kneller (1646-1723), the society portraitist of choice for eighteenth-century nobles and royalty. A note in Moore’s account book for 2 December 1699 suggests that he paid Kneller £21.10.0 for ‘drawing your Lordship’s picture’, though the painting itself, now in Clare College, is dated 1705. This copy, made in 1736 by Isaac Whood, usually hangs in the North Front gallery of the Library, opposite the cases made for Moore’s books by John Austin.

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