File:William Hewer, 1642-1715 RMG BHC2765.jpg

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Godfrey Kneller: William Hewer, 1642-1715  wikidata:Q50855433 reasonator:Q50855433
Artist
Godfrey Kneller  (1646–1723)  wikidata:Q65317 q:en:Godfrey Kneller
 
Godfrey Kneller
Alternative names
Gottfried Kneller, Birth name: Gottfried Kniller
Description German painter, drawer, engraver and miniaturist
Date of birth/death 8 August 1646 Edit this at Wikidata 7 November 1723
Location of birth/death Lübeck London
Work period between circa 1660 and circa 1723
date QS:P,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1660-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1723-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Work location
Leiden (circa 1660–1665), Rome, Venice (1672–1675), Nuremberg, Hamburg (1674–1676), London (1676–1723), France (1684–1685)
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creator QS:P170,Q65317
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Title
William Hewer, 1642-1715 Edit this at Wikidata
title QS:P1476,en:"William Hewer, 1642-1715 Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Len,"William Hewer, 1642-1715 Edit this at Wikidata"
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: William Hewer, 1642-1715

In 1660 Samuel Pepys, the new Clerk of the Acts, employed Hewer as his clerk in the Navy Office and also as a domestic employee. Their relationship developed into a professional partnership as well as a friendship. Pepys moved to the Admiralty in 1673 taking with him Hewer, who became chief clerk the following year. In 1685 he became MP for Yarmouth Isle of Wight, and in 1686 a special commissioner of the navy with responsibility for accounts. In his old age Pepys went to live in Hewer’s house on Clapham Common and died there in 1703. His library remained there until 1724. The portrait is a pair to Kneller’s portrait of Pepys (BHC2947) and both remained in Pepys family possesion until they were acquired for the Museum in 1931. This one was engraved by Robert Cooper in 1825, for inclusion in the first published edition of Pepys's diary that year.

William Hewer, 1642-1715
Depicted people William Hewer Edit this at Wikidata
Date 1689
date QS:P571,+1689-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas Edit this at Wikidata
Dimensions Painting: 762 mm x 635 mm; Frame: 935 mm x 816 mm x 100 mm; Weight: 14.4kg
institution QS:P195,Q7374509
Current location
Accession number
BHC2765
Notes Description: shape: feigned oval. Not signed.
References
Source/Photographer http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/14238
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Acquisition Number: 1931-4
Caird Catalogue Number (CCAT): CC Vl, 1 P6, 46
id number: BHC2765
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Oil paintings

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