Porter, Sir Robert Ker, (1777-1842), Knight, painter and traveller

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Surname:	Porter
Pretitle:	Sir
Forenames:	Robert Ker
Gender:	Male
Date:	1777-1842
Title:	Knight
Biography:	ODNB link for Porter, Sir Robert Ker (1777-1842), Knight painter and traveller
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/P157115 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P23239 )
Online related resources	Artists' Paper Register link for Sir Robert Ker Porter	Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Sir Robert Ker Porter

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1794-1842: corresp and papers	Kenneth Spencer Research Library		See NUC MS 60-1363
2	1801-28: (copies) letters, mainly to family members, with journals during travels in southern Russia and Persia (Phillipps MSS 14536, 14538, 14593, 14595-7, 14600, 14604, 14614, 14617, 14688, 14718-20, 14722, 14724, 14771-3, 15555, 15558, 17517)	British Library, Manuscript Collections	RP 54, 67 and and Add MSS 53791-53799
3	1828-43: corresp and letterbooks	Indiana University: Lilly Library	Porter MSS	NRA 23228 See HMC Private papers of British diplomats 1782-1900, 1985
4	1825-42: journals and letters rel mainly to period in Venezuela (copies)	British Library, Manuscript Collections	RP 273
5	1805-49: journals and corresp	Harvard University: Houghton Library	bMS Eng 1256	NRA 26791
6	1799: journal	National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services	NLW MS 12651
7	1801-03: accounts and journal of paintings and social life (1 vol)	Victoria & Albert (V&A) Museum, Department of Designs, Prints and Drawings	Searight collection
8	1817-22: journals and notebooks	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 14758, 18280-83, 53791-99, 58217
9	1820-26: notes on Russia and Persia	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Eng hist c 369, 409, d 263
10	synopsis of Marmion	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MS.15938
11	c1796-1847: family corresp	Durham University Library and Collections	POR	NRA 24542
12	1794-1842: letters (372) to family	Huntington Library		See Guide 1982
13	1817-20: corresp with Sir Robert Liston	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MS.5651-76
14	1821-40: (copies) letters	British Library, Manuscript Collections	RP 1415