Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.19530

    Portrait of Hans Sloane

    Date
    1728
    Sitter
    Hans Sloane (1660 - 1753, Irish) , Physician
    Creator
    John Faber (1694 - 1756, Dutch) , Engraver
    After
    Thomas Murray (1663 - 1735, British) , Artist
    Object type
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    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 237mm
    width (print): 171mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of Hans Sloane, turned to the left [as viewed], looking out at the viewer. 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: ‘T. Murray pinx. J Faber fecit 1729
    Dnus Hans Sloane Baronettus
    Collegy Regy Medicorum Londinensiu & Regiae Societatis Praeses &c.
    Sold by Philip Overton at Golden Bush near St. Dunstans Church Fleet Street’

    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.
    Related fellows
    Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727, British) , Natural philosopher
    Charles Turnor (1768 - 1853) , Collector
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