Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.13487

    Portrait of William Benson Earle

    Date
    early 19th century
    Sitter
    William Benson Earle (1740 - 1796, British) , Philanthropist
    Creator
    William Evans (British) , Engraver
    After
    William Hoare (1707 - 1792, British) , Painter
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    Material
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    Dimensions
    height (print): 148mm
    width (print): 109mm
    height (paper support): 204mm
    width (paper support): 151mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of William Benson Earle in left profile. He wears buckled wig with queue and is dressed in jacket with high-collared shirt and dark cravat. In an oval frame.

    Inscribed ‘WILLIAM BENSON EARLE, ESQ. Late of the Close, Sarum. Engraved by William Evans from an original Drawing executed by William Hoare, Esq: of Bath in the year 1769.’ Pencilled ‘1773’.

    William Benson Earle (1740-1796) was a British philanthropist, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1773.

    Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.19.
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