Credit: The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.1849

    Portrait of Henry Holland

    Date
    c.1870
    Sitter
    Henry Holland (1788 - 1873, British) , Physician
    Creator
    John Alfred Vinter (1823 - 1905, British) , Lithographer
    After
    Henry Wyndham Phillips (1820 - 1868, British) , Painter
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    Dimensions
    height (print): 340mm
    width (print): 270mm
    Description
    Half-length portrait of Henry Holland sitting at a table. He wears a dark jacket and waistcoat over a white shirt and cravat. His right arm is seen resting on a collection of documents on top of the table, which is covered by a patterned tablecloth.

    Inscribed below: ‘H. W. Phillips, pinxt_ J. A. Vinter, lith./London, T. Bentley & Co 23 Paternoster Row./Day & Son, Lithrs to The Queen/Henry Holland’

    Sir Henry Holland (1788-1873), British physician and travel writer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1815 and served as Vice President between 1835-1836, 1860-1861 and 1864-1866.
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