Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.19564

    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
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 180mm
    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.
    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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