Portrait of Samuel Pepys
Date
1838
Sitter
Samuel Pepys (1633 - 1703, British) , Naval officer
Creator
George Perfect Harding (1780 - 1853, British) , Painter
After
Godfrey Kneller (1646 - 1723, British) , Painter
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Dimensions
height (print): 255mm
width (print): 205mm
width (print): 205mm
Subject
Description
Half-length portrait of Samuel Pepys, turned to the right [as viewed], looking directly out at the viewer. With hair long, a red shawl and a white shirt. Possibly from a portrait by Godfrey Kneller at Royal Museums Greenwich.
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.
Samuel Pepys (1633–1703), British naval official and diarist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1665 and served as its President between 1684 - 1686.
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.
Samuel Pepys (1633–1703), British naval official and diarist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1665 and served as its President between 1684 - 1686.
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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