Portrait of Hans Sloane
Date
1729
Sitter
Hans Sloane (1660 - 1753, Irish) , Physician
Creator
John Faber (1694 - 1756, Dutch) , Engraver
After
Godfrey Kneller (1646 - 1723, British) , Artist
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Dimensions
height (print): 265mm
width (print): 148mm
width (print): 148mm
Subject
Description
Head and shoulders portrait of Hans Sloane, turned to the left [as viewed], looking out at the view. With a long, curled wig, a dark coat and a white lace-trimmed necktie. In an oval frame. From a portrait by Godfrey Kneller in the Royal Society collection.
Inscribed below: ‘G Kneller Bar.t pinx. 1716 J Faber fecit 1729.
Dnus Hans Sloane Baronettus
Collegy Regy Medicorum Londinensiu & Regiae Societatis Praeses &c.’
Engraving from MS/648/4, Collectanea Newtoniana. A collection of prints and original artworks relating to Sir Isaac Newton, compiled and arranged by Charles Turnor, 1837.
Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753), Irish physician and collector, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1685, served on its Council from 1690 and as its president from 1727-1741. He was a famous collector, and in building and researching his plant, animal and curio specimen collection, he is known to have relied on contacts involved in colonial networks, and often indigenous and enslaved peoples.
Inscribed below: ‘G Kneller Bar.t pinx. 1716 J Faber fecit 1729.
Dnus Hans Sloane Baronettus
Collegy Regy Medicorum Londinensiu & Regiae Societatis Praeses &c.’
Engraving from MS/648/4, Collectanea Newtoniana. A collection of prints and original artworks relating to Sir Isaac Newton, compiled and arranged by Charles Turnor, 1837.
Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753), Irish physician and collector, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1685, served on its Council from 1690 and as its president from 1727-1741. He was a famous collector, and in building and researching his plant, animal and curio specimen collection, he is known to have relied on contacts involved in colonial networks, and often indigenous and enslaved peoples.
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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