Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.18054

    Portrait of Lionel Smith Beale

    Date
    1850s
    Sitter
    Lionel Smith Beale (1828 - 1906, British) , Physician
    Creator - Organisation
    Maull & Polyblank, Photographer
    Object type
    Image reference
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 200mm
    width (print): 150mm
    Subject
    Content object
    furniture
       > chair
    Description
    Seated portrait of Lionel Smith Beale, turned to the right [as viewed]. He wears a white shirt underneath a dark suit jacket and a bow tie, his hair short with side-whiskers. The carved back of his seat is visible behind him, and he leans one arm on a circular table.

    Inscribed below: ‘Photographed by Messrs Maull & Co. London’

    Lionel Smith Beale (1828–1906) British physician and microscopist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1857. He delivered the Croonian lecture in 1865, his address was entitled, ‘The ultimate nerve fibres distributed to the muscles and some other tissues’ [Proceedings of the Royal Society, vol. 14 1865].
    Associated place
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