Portrait of Neil Arnott
Date
1850s
Sitter
Neil Arnott (1788 - 1874, British) , Physician
Creator - Organisation
Maull & Polyblank, Photographer
Object type
Image reference
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 200mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Three quarter length portrait of Neil Arnott, half-turned to the right [as viewed]. He wears a white shirt and waistcoat underneath a dark suit jacket and cravat, his hair short with side-whiskers. Arnott holds the back of a chair in his left hand, and a book open in his right.
Inscribed below: ‘Photographed by Messrs Maull & Co. London’
Neil Arnott (1788-1874) Scottish physician and inventor was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1838. He was the inventor of one of the first forms of the waterbed, the Arnott waterbed, and was awarded the Rumford Medal in 1854 for his invention of the smokeless fire grate.
Inscribed below: ‘Photographed by Messrs Maull & Co. London’
Neil Arnott (1788-1874) Scottish physician and inventor was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1838. He was the inventor of one of the first forms of the waterbed, the Arnott waterbed, and was awarded the Rumford Medal in 1854 for his invention of the smokeless fire grate.
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