Portrait of John Locke is an oil on canvas painting by German-born painter Godfrey Kneller, from 1697.

[1] Kneller in his work created a portrait gallery of the most important intellectual and artistic personalities of his time in England.

However the depiction shows its due reverence to one of the leading English intellectuals of his time.

The Hermitage website states: "Yet despite this intimacy and informality, we have a full sense of the importance and weight of the sitter's".

[1][2] The painting was in the collection of Robert Walpole, in Houghton Hall, until it was bought by the Hermitage Museum, in 1779.