… Image Sir Godfrey Kneller, ‘Sir Richard Steele’, © National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG 3227, 1711. Image John Stuart, ‘Sir Richard Steele’, © National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG D14964, 1710. Résumé Richard Steele was one of the most important and controversial figures of early … Kneller, including the one of Steele here. Sir Godfrey Kneller, ‘Sir Richard Steele’, © National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG 3227, 1711. In one of his first publications, The Christian Hero (1701), he articulated his conviction that …