Monday 30 April 2018

Thomas Tanner bust by John Cheere Codrington Library



The Codrington Library Plaster Busts by John Cheere

All Souls College, Oxford University.

Part 12. Bishop Thomas Tanner (1674 - 1735).

Fellow of All Souls.

for a very useful entry in Dict. of Nat. Biog see -

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Tanner,_Thomas_(1674-1735)_(DNB00)





Thomas Tanner Bishop of St Asaph
anon.
Oil on Canvas
124.5 x 100.3 cms.
Image courtesy Christ Church College, University of Oxford.
Art UK


Thomas Tanner, by George Vertue, 1736 - NPG D40817 - © National Portrait Gallery, London
Thomas Tanner, Bishop of St Asaphs
George Vertue
Engraving
384 x 259 mm plate
1736.


© National Portrait Gallery, London


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This portrait bust seems to have derived from the Vertue engraving




























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