Porträt Zachary Pearce (1690-1774)

Portrait of Zachary Pearce. The British bishop is shown here as a chest image facing to the right in the three-quarter profile. His head is slightly turned and his view front. He wears a bishop’s fulfilling ornat and a short wig. Zachary Pearce was bishop of Bangor from 1748, bishop of Rochester from 1756. He rejected the position as bishop of London. He was also a critical writer and wrote the work “Cicero, Dialogitres de oratore” in 1716 and the “Cicero, De officiis libri tres” in 1745. He presided over Handel’s funeral service on April 20, 1759 in the evening at Westminster Abbey. This paper was produced after the presentation of John Faber, who in turn provided an orientation to Thomas Hudson. A sheet from 1754 at the National Portrait Gallery in London bears witness to this. Signature: Drawn by G.P. Harding. Engraved by Robt Grave. From the Original Picture by T. Hudson at Lambeth Palace. London. Puplished Augt 1st 1822, by G.P. Harding, 18. Hercules Buildings. Lambeth. Caption: Zachary Pearce, D.D. Born in High Holborn, Educated at Great Ealing & Westminster, Chosen a King 's Scholar, 1707: Elected to Trinity College, Cambridge, 1710: & made Fellow. Dean of Winchester, 1739: Bishop of Bangor, 1748: Dean of Westminster, and Bishop// of Rochester, 1750: Resigned the Deanery of Westminster, 1768: Died at Little Ealing June 29th 1774, Aged 84, Buried at Bromley Kent. (Stiftung Händel-Haus Halle Foundation)