Portrait of William Smith
Date
1836
Sitter
William Sidney Smith (1764 - 1840) , Naval officer
Creator
Samuel Freeman (1773 - 1857, British) , Engraver
After
William Henry Fisk (1827 - 1884, British) , Artist
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Dimensions
height (print): 180mm
width (print): 133mm
width (print): 133mm
Description
Seated portrait of William Smith, looking directly out at the viewer, with a dark jacket and white necktie, his glasses in one hand and a piece of paper in the other.
Inscribed below: ‘W.m Smith.
Engraved by I Freeman from a picture by W. Fisk’
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.
Sir William Sidney Smith (1764-1840), British naval officer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1811.
Inscribed below: ‘W.m Smith.
Engraved by I Freeman from a picture by W. Fisk’
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.
Sir William Sidney Smith (1764-1840), British naval officer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1811.
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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