Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.12189

    Portrait of David Brewster

    Date
    1832
    Sitter
    David Brewster (1781 - 1868, British) , Physicist
    Creator
    William Holl (1807 - 1871, British) , Engraver
    Creator - Organisation
    Fisher Son & Co., Publisher
    After
    Henry Raeburn (1756 - 1823, Scottish) , Painter
    Object type
    Image reference
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 113mm
    width (print): 91mm
    height (paper support): 195mm
    width (paper support): 148mm
    Description
    Half-length portrait of David Brewster inclined to the right as viewed and looking off to distance. He wears regency-style jacket with high collared shirt and cravat.

    Inscribed in pencil on paper support ‘1815 Sir D Brewster’

    Sir David Brewster was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1815.

    Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.4
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