Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.19553

    Portrait of Zachary Pearce

    Date
    1754
    Sitter
    Zachary Pearce (1690 - 1774, British) , Clergyman
    Creator
    John Faber (1694 - 1756, Dutch) , Engraver
    After
    Thomas Hudson (1701 - 1779, British) , Artist
    Object type
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    Material
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    Dimensions
    height (print): 205mm
    width (print): 145mm
    Subject
    Description
    Seated portrait of Zachary Pearce, facing right [as viewed], looking directly out at the viewer. With a curled wig, bands and episcopal robes, with the coat of arms below. From a portrait by Thomas Hudson.

    Inscribed below: ‘T Hudson Pinx. 1754 I Faber Fecit
    The R.t Reverend Father in God Zachary Pearce D. D.
    & Lord Bishop of Bangor
    Afterwards Bp. Of Rochester & Dean of Westminister’

    Engraving from MS/648/5 Collectanea Newtoniana. A collection of prints and original artworks relating to Sir Isaac Newton, compiled and arranged by Charles Turnor, 1837.

    Zachary Pearce (1690–1774), bishop of Rochester, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1720.
    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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