Portrait of Henry Oldenburg
Date
1838
Sitter
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Science writer
Creator
John Bradley (American) , Painter
After
Jan van Cleve (1646 - 1716, Flemish) , Painter
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Material
Dimensions
height (print): 245mm
width (print): 165mm
width (print): 165mm
Subject
Description
Half-length portrait of Henry Oldenburg, turned slightly to the right [as viewed], looking directly out at the viewer. His body is sketchily drawn, his face is filled in with watercolour. Copy of the Royal Society’s portrait of Oldeburg by John van Cleve.
Inscribed below: ‘Henry Oldenburg
First Secretary of the Royal Society…
Copied from the Original Portrait belonging to the Royal Society in Somerset House
by John Bradley […]’
Painting from MS/648/3, Collectanea Newtoniana. A collection of prints and original artworks relating to Sir Isaac Newton, compiled and arranged by Charles Turnor, 1837.
Henry Oldenburg (c.1617-1677), German scientific correspondent and secretary of the Royal Society, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1663.
Inscribed below: ‘Henry Oldenburg
First Secretary of the Royal Society…
Copied from the Original Portrait belonging to the Royal Society in Somerset House
by John Bradley […]’
Painting from MS/648/3, Collectanea Newtoniana. A collection of prints and original artworks relating to Sir Isaac Newton, compiled and arranged by Charles Turnor, 1837.
Henry Oldenburg (c.1617-1677), German scientific correspondent and secretary of the Royal Society, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1663.
Object history
Charles Turnor presented his Collectanea Newtoniana. Being a selection of the most authentic engraved portraits of Sir Isaac Newton Knt., and other eminent Philosophers Mathematicians and Distinguished Men … to the Royal Society in 1837.
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