Authentic and presumed to be authentic portraits of G. F. Handel listed  chronologically

(extracts from a database of the Handel House)

  

Abbreviations :

• HH    - Händel-Haus Halle

• NPG - National Portrait Gallery, London

Selected and frequently cited sources

Coke	The Gerald Coke Handel Collection : Exhibition, Jenkyn Place, Bentley, Hampshire. - [Bentley] : [G. Coke], [1985]. - 63 S. (Tercentenary of the birth of George Frideric Handel Exhibition held 21st July to 27th July 1985) catalogue of an exhibition at Jenkyn Place, Bently, Hampshire, July 1985
Coopersmith	Coppersmith, Jacob Maurice: A list of portraits, sculptures, etc. of Georg Friedrich Händel. - In: ML 13(1932)2, S. 156-167
Flower 1	Flower, Newman: Catalogue of a Handel collection formed by Newman Flower. - Sevenoaks, gedr. für private circulation, 1921. -
Flower 2	Flower, Newman: George Frideric Handel : His Personality and his Times. - London : Cassel & Co., 1923 (1947 ; 1959)
Goddard	Goddard, Scott: Handel. - In: Grove. - fifth edition 1954, Vol. IV: Portraits S. 48-49
HH-Kat.	Katalog zu den Sammlungen des Händel-Hauses in Halle. - Halle : Händel-Haus, 1961-1986 : 2. Teil: Bildsammlung : Porträts / hrsg. von Konrad Sasse. - Halle : Händel-Haus, 1962. - 288 S.: 265 Abb.
Kerslake	Kerslake, John F.: Early Georgian portraits. - 2v : ill. (some col.) . - London : H. M. Stationery Off., 1977 (ISBN/ISSN: 0112900437)
Maitland and Squire	Fuller-Maitland, John Alexander ; Squire, Barklay W.: Handel. - In: Dictionary of National Biography. - XXIV. - London 1890
Rockstro	Rockstro, W. S. (William Smyth): The life of George Frederick Handel / with an introductory notice by George Grove. - London : Macmillan, 1883
Schoelcher	Schoelcher, Victor: Catalogue of the Victor Schoelcher Collection of Handel music and literature in the Conservatoire des Musique, Paris.
Simon	Handel : A Celebration of his Life and Times 1685-1759 / Ed. by Jacob Simon. - National Portrait Gallery London. - 1985. - 296 S. ; zahlr. Abb. (ISBN/ISSN 0-904017-68-0)
Smith 1	Smith, John Chaloner: British Mezzotinto Portraits : being a descriptive catalogue of these engravings from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century ... accompanied by biographical notes ... - 4 Bde. - London : H. Sotheran, 1878-1883
Smith 2	Smith, William Charles: Concerning Handel : his Life and Works. - London : Cassell, 1948. - 299S.
Smith 3	Smith, William Charles: A Handel Iconography / als Manuskript hrsg. u. mit e. Vorwort von Gerald Coke. - o. J. [1976]
Vogel	Vogel, Emil: Händel-Portraits. - In: Jb. der Musikbibliothek Peters 3(1896), S. 19-32
Wellesley	Wellesley, Francis ; W., Minnie: Handlist of Miniatures and Portraits belonging to Francis and Minnie Wellesley. - Oxford  1914

To the late Portraits see: Schenkluhn, Wolfgang : Zwischen Repräsentation und Selbstdarstellung - die späten Händelporträts von Thomas Hudson in: Händeljahrbuch 2003 S. 193-210