Philip Nicholas Shuttleworth (1782–1842), Warden of New College (1822–1840), Bishop of Chichester

Phillips's portrait of Philip Nicholas Shuttleworth from 1842 documents a distinguished Oxford academic and churchman—the Warden of New College who became Bishop of Chichester after producing influential scholarship on the evidence for Christianity. Shuttleworth's Not Tradition but Scripture (1838) was an important contribution to the early Victorian religious controversy generated by the Oxford Movement, and his portrait at the end of his career documented a figure who had engaged seriously with the theological debates that were transforming the Church of England. The Oxford connection gave this portrait its institutional significance within the college he had led for nearly two decades.

The academic-ecclesiastical portrait presents Shuttleworth in the robes appropriate to his institutional position. Phillips handles the conventions of such portraiture with his usual professional competence. The New College setting provides the institutional context for the commemoration.