Pepys, an intimate portrait of the great diarist, naval strategist and adulterer, starts filming for BBC TWO Steve Coogan plays Samuel Pepys, naval strategist and serial adulterer, in the first ...

SAMUEL Pepys was a man who looked out of his London window and saw England's destiny unfurl before his eyes. Few can have been as blessed as this most revered of chroniclers, this man who ...

Pepys sat for this portrait several times over a number of weeks. Dressed in a hired gown, he wanted to look like a cultured and sophisticated man about town.

Hitherto his portraits, generally painted on a small canvas, have served to assemble and concentrate from scattered sources all the elements of a spiritual likeness.

We track Pepys’s astronomical rise from impoverished young hopeful to the most influential mandarin in the navy bureaucracy (Getty) One’s book of a lifetime should become a total obsession ...

Samuel Pepys (1633–1703), the famous English diarist and naval administrator, had a penchant for fancy French clothes - although he described a fellow France-loving Englishman as 'an absolute ...

John Hayls, Portrait of Samuel Pepys, 1666, Oil on canvas, National Portrait Gallery, London.