L&M: Nothing is known of the oeuvre of Savill. He was possibly the Mr. Savile, 'picture-maker', who was associated in 1677 with the Painter-Stainers' Company: GL, MS. 5667/2, f.213r. The portraits of Pepys and his wife were hung in Pepys's dining room on 22 February, 1662, and varnished there by the artist on 11 June, 1662. They are no longer extant. For a contrary view concerning Pepys' portrait see D. Pepys Whiteley's article in Country Life, 1961, pp. 778. https://picclick.co.uk/Country-Li… [George Derek Pepys Whiteley was born on 18 July 1906, the only son of Gerard Tarver Whiteley (18721-944) and Amy Theresa Pepys (1878-1963), daughter of the Hon. Walter Courtenay Pepys (1840-1914). Originally known as G.D.P. Whiteley, he later changed his surname to Pepys Whiteley. ... From 1959 to 1970 he was Assistant Pepys Librarian of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge. https://oldshirburnian.org.uk/wp-… ]
Two paintings by Savill of Cheapside, one with a lute, the other ‘in little’. Sittings for a larger picture began on 27 November 1661 and 3 December (‘I fear it will not be like me’); on 6 January 1662 Pepys brought his lute to the studio, staying ‘all the morning to see him paint the neck of my lute in my picture, which I was not pleased with after it was done’; he paid Savill £6 on January for his own and his wife’s picture and remarked that his own was ‘well liked’ (24 January). He ‘sat for the first time for my picture in little, which pleaseth me well’ on 20 February 1662, thereafter on 24 February, 5 March and the last time on 14 April. Pepys held a limited opinion of Savill; ‘though a very honest man, I found to be very silly as to matter of skill in shadows, for we were in long discourse, till I was almost angry to hear him talk so simply’ (28 January 1662). https://www.npg.org.uk/collection…
This article lists all the known and suspected portraits of Pepys and their locations.
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Conrad • Link
D. Savill, artist, who executed his main body of work from 1652 to 1661 inclusive, he is connected with one portrait in the National Portrait Gallery.
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San Diego Sarah • Link
L&M: Nothing is known of the oeuvre of Savill.
He was possibly the Mr. Savile, 'picture-maker', who was associated in 1677 with the Painter-Stainers' Company: GL, MS. 5667/2, f.213r.
The portraits of Pepys and his wife were hung in Pepys's dining room on 22 February, 1662, and varnished there by the artist on 11 June, 1662. They are no longer extant.
For a contrary view concerning Pepys' portrait see D. Pepys Whiteley's article in Country Life, 1961, pp. 778.
https://picclick.co.uk/Country-Li…
[George Derek Pepys Whiteley was born on 18 July 1906, the only son of Gerard Tarver Whiteley (18721-944) and Amy Theresa Pepys (1878-1963), daughter of the Hon. Walter Courtenay Pepys (1840-1914). Originally known as G.D.P. Whiteley, he later changed his surname to Pepys Whiteley. ... From 1959 to 1970 he was Assistant Pepys Librarian of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge.
https://oldshirburnian.org.uk/wp-… ]
San Diego Sarah • Link
The National Portrait Gallery does not agree:
Two paintings by Savill of Cheapside, one with a lute, the other ‘in little’.
Sittings for a larger picture began on 27 November 1661 and 3 December (‘I fear it will not be like me’); on 6 January 1662 Pepys brought his lute to the studio, staying ‘all the morning to see him paint the neck of my lute in my picture, which I was not pleased with after it was done’; he paid Savill £6 on January for his own and his wife’s picture and remarked that his own was ‘well liked’ (24 January).
He ‘sat for the first time for my picture in little, which pleaseth me well’ on 20 February 1662, thereafter on 24 February, 5 March and the last time on 14 April.
Pepys held a limited opinion of Savill; ‘though a very honest man, I found to be very silly as to matter of skill in shadows, for we were in long discourse, till I was almost angry to hear him talk so simply’ (28 January 1662).
https://www.npg.org.uk/collection…
This article lists all the known and suspected portraits of Pepys and their locations.