Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.13926

    Portrait of Anthony Horneck

    Date
    17th century
    Sitter
    Anthony Horneck (1641 - 1697, German British) , Clergyman
    Creator
    Robert White (1645 - 1703, British) , Engraver
    After
    Mary Beale (1633 - 1699, English) , Painter
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    Dimensions
    height (print): 161mm
    width (print): 130mm
    height (paper support): 184mm
    weight (paper support): 108mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of Anthony Horneck turned to the right and looking out to viewer. He wears mid-length periwig and is dressed in cassock and bands. Oval in a rectangular frame.

    Inscribed ‘Mrs Beale pinxit. R. White sculp. The Reverend Dr. Anthony Horneck.’ Pencilled ‘1668’ lower left hand corner.

    Anthony Horneck (1641-1697) German clergyman and scholar, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1669.

    Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p30.
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