Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.12172

    Portrait of Count Claude Louis Berthollet

    Date
    19th century
    Sitter
    Count Claude Louis Berthollet (1748 - 1822, French) , Chemist
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    Dimensions
    height (plate): 214mm
    width (plate): 135mm
    height (print): 225mm
    width (print): 150mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of Claude Louis Berthollet wearing regency-style coat with waistcoat, shirt and cravat. In an oval frame.

    Inscribed ‘Dessiné d’apres un portrait a l’huille peint par un peintre American et communiqué par Mme Ve Berthollet et Gravé par Ambroise Tardieu. CDE. LIS. CTE. BERTHOLLET (Chimiste,) Membre de l’académie royale des Sciences et de la société royale de Londres. Né à Talloire (Savoie) le 9 Décembre 1748. Mort à Paris le 6 Octobre 1822.’ And pencilled ‘Elected to Royal Society 1789.’

    Claude Louise Berthollet was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1789.

    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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