Credit: The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.1364

    Portrait of Sir Samuel Garth

    Date
    c.1715
    Sitter
    Samuel Garth (1661 - 1719, British) , Physician
    Creator
    John Simon (1675 - 1751, French/British) , Engraver
    After
    Godfrey Kneller (1646 - 1723, British) , Painter
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    Dimensions
    height (print): 310mm
    width (print): 250mm
    Description
    Half-length portrait of Samuel Garth in a long wig and satin jacket. His body is seen in profile, turned to the left, but his head is turned back so it is almost facing the viewer. Mezzotint after an oil painting by Godfrey Kneller now in the National Portrait Gallery collection.

    Inscribed below: ‘Sr. Samuel Garth MD./G Kneller S R Imp: et Mag Brit Baronet pinx/Sold by J. Smith Covent Garden’

    Sir Samuel Garth (1661-1719), British physician, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1706.
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