Thomas Hobbes

Portrait of Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)

Painter: John Michael Wright (1617-1694). Medium: oil on canvas. Date: circa 1669-1670. Dimensions: 26 in. x 21 1/2 in. (660 mm x 546 mm). Provenance: given by Sir Walter Trevelyan, 1866. Source: National Portrait Gallery, no. 225.

PRESCRIBED READINGS:

Hobbes, English Works, ed. Molesworth (1839-45):

• vol. i, pp. vii-xii, 1-12 (De Corpore): on archive.org.
• vol. iii, pp. ix-xii, 427-37, 664-88 (Leviathan): on archive.org and Liberty Fund.