Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.12151

    Portrait of George Baker

    Date
    late 19th century
    Sitter
    George Baker (1722 - 1809, British) , Physician
    Creator
    Ozias Humphry (1742 - 1810, British) , Painter
    Object type
    Image reference
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 111mm
    width (print): 91mm
    height (paper support): 171mm
    width (paper support): 150mm
    Subject
    Description
    Half-length portrait of George Baker, in three quarter profile to the right as viewed. He wears wig with queue and robe with braid detail.

    Sir George Baker was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1762.

    Inscribed in pencil on paper support ‘1764. Sir G Baker’.

    Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.7
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