Editing Richard Leveridge (section)

==Portraits==
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The [[National Portrait Gallery, London|National Portrait Gallery]], London has an oil portrait of the young Richard Leveridge, c. 1710–20, by an unknown artist, which is on display at the [[Handel House Museum]], London.<ref>See portrait Accession NPG 6596 at [https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait.php?mkey=mw57889 National Portrait Gallery website].</ref> It also has copies of two other likenesses, one a mezzotint by [[William Pether]] after the oil portrait by [[Thomas Frye]],<ref>See portrait Accession NPG D3577 at [https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portraitZoom/mw37816/Richard-Leveridge?search=sp&sText=Leveridge&rNo=1 National Portrait Gallery website]. The 'Account of Richard Leveridge' in ''The European Magazine'' (cited above, p. 244), attributes the portrait to [[Nathaniel Hone the Younger]], but corrects itself on p. 364.</ref> and the other a mezzotint by Andreas van der Mijn after the portrait by [[Frans van der Mijn]].<ref>See portrait Accession NPG D5069 at [https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portraitZoom/mw39366/Richard-Leveridge?search=sp&sText=Leveridge&rNo=2 National Portrait Gallery website].</ref> Both show Leveridge in advanced old age. There are more versions than one of the original oil portrait by Thomas Frye, including that in the collections of [[Warwick]] [[Town council]],<ref>See portrait at [https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/richard-leveridge-16701758-55733 Art UK].</ref> and the better-known example in the Gerald Coke Handel Collection at the [[Foundling Museum]].<ref>See portrait at [https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/richard-leveridge-16701758-191912/search/people:richard-leveridge/page/1/view_as/grid Art UK].</ref>