Portrait of Home Riggs Popham
Date
ca. early 19th century
Sitter
Home Riggs Popham (1762 - 1820, British) , Naval officer
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Dimensions
height (print): 226mm
width (print): 152mm
width (print): 152mm
Description
Head and shoulders portrait of Home Riggs Popham, turned to the left as viewed and looking back at viewer. He wears military jacket with epaulettes, and tricorne hat. In an oval frame.
Inscribed ‘Hastings pinxt. Hopwood sculpt. Sir Home Popham’ and pencilled ‘1799’.
Sir Home Riggs Popham was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1799.
Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.61
Inscribed ‘Hastings pinxt. Hopwood sculpt. Sir Home Popham’ and pencilled ‘1799’.
Sir Home Riggs Popham was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1799.
Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.61
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