Lodowicke Muggleton

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Worked from 1631 as a tailor for his cousin, William Reeve, whose brother John co-founded the Muggletonian sect. In 1651 he experienced a series of revelations. He declared himself and John Reeve the two witnesses mentioned in Revelation and claimed they had been given the power to bless believers and curse sceptics. In 1656 Muggleton and Reeve published the highly controversial The Divine Looking-Glass, in which the doctrines of the sect were developed. Amongst these were the belief that the distinction of the three persons in the Trinity was merely nominal and that God was a corporeal, embodied being. In 1677 Muggleton was imprisoned for blasphemy. The last Muggletonian, Philip Noakes, died in 1979.

National Portrait Gallery, London

London

Title

Lodowicke Muggleton

Date

1674

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 73.7 x W 62.2 cm

Accession number

557

Acquisition method

Transferred from the British Museum, 1879

Work type

Painting

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