Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.1944
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    Portrait of Joseph Huddart

    Date
    1821
    Sitter
    Joseph Huddart (1741 - 1816, British) , Hydrographer
    After
    John Hoppner (1758 - 1810, British) , Painter
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    Dimensions
    height (print): 250mm
    width (print): 194mm
    Description
    Half length seated portrait of Huddart, his body turned to the viewer’s right, wearing a single breasted coat with a double row of buttons.

    Inscribed: “CAPTN. JOSEPH HUDDART, F.R.S. Aetat. Suae. 61. From a Picture by Iohn Hoppner Esqr., R,A, in the possession of Charles Hampden Turner Esqr.”

    The print appeared as the frontispiece to Memoir of the late Captain Joseph Huddart, FRS &c. by Joseph Huddart [the younger] (London, printed by W.Phillips, 1821).

    Joseph Huddart was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1791.
    Transcription
    CAPTN. JOSEPH HUDDART, F.R.S. Aetat. Suae. 61. From a Picture by Iohn Hoppner Esqr., R,A, in the possession of Charles Hampden Turner Esqr
    Object history
    Provenance unknown. Not in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript.
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