Portrait of John Smeaton
Date
1759
Sitter
John Smeaton (1724 - 1792, British) , Civil engineer
Creator
William Bromley (1769 - 1842, British) , Engraver
After
Mather Brown (1761 - 1831, American) , Painter
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 180mm
width (print): 120mm
height (paper support): 227mm
width (paper support): 150mm
width (print): 120mm
height (paper support): 227mm
width (paper support): 150mm
Subject
Description
Half-length portrait of John Smeaton seated with right hand inside waistcoat and the left hand resting in front. He wears short wig, coat and shirt with ruffled sleeve cuffs. To the left as viewed is the Eddystone lighthouse.
Inscribed ‘Mather Brown pinxit. Wm. Bromley sculpsit. John Smeaton, Civil Engineer. F.R.S. Born at Austhorpe in Yorkshire. 1724. Published as the Act directs, Jany, 1st. 1790’.
John Smeaton was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753 and was awarded the Copley medal in 1759.
Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.73
Inscribed ‘Mather Brown pinxit. Wm. Bromley sculpsit. John Smeaton, Civil Engineer. F.R.S. Born at Austhorpe in Yorkshire. 1724. Published as the Act directs, Jany, 1st. 1790’.
John Smeaton was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753 and was awarded the Copley medal in 1759.
Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.73
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