Engraved after the 1689 portrait by Kneller (BHC2947) commissioned by Pepys and then in his possession. The image was used for Pepys's late bookplate but originally in another version in which it is set in a trompe l'oeil of parchment within an outer frame, with the sitter's motto above ('Mens cujusque is est quisque') and below SAM.PEPYS.CAR.ET JAC.ANGL.REGIB. / A SECRETIS ADMIRALIAE., so this is presumably a later variant. The ink inscriptions 'Samuel Pepys Esqr', 'G Kneller pinx' and 'White Sc.' may be near contemporary. There is a related drawing by White, with the head turned slightly more to the right (so it may be an 'ad vivum' study rather that from Kneller) in the Huntington Library, California, one of ten by White inserted into an extra-illustrated biographival dictionary volume assembled by Richard Bull in the late 18th century and known as 'Bull's Granger'. White was a Pepys's younger contemporary (b.1645): they both died in 1703. [PvdM 12/14]