Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.21112

    Portrait of John Blackburne

    Date
    1801
    Sitter
    John Blackburne (1754 - 1837) , Landowner
    Creator
    Peltro William Tomkins (1759 - 1840, British) , Engraver
    After
    William Beechey (1753 - 1839, British) , Artist
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    Dimensions
    height (print): 220mm
    width (print): 185mm
    Subject
    Description
    Half-length portrait of John Blackburne, inclined slightly to the right as viewed, holing a bundle of paper and resting one arm on a desktop. Dressed in a dark dinner jacket and white necktie, with natural hair.

    Inscribed: ‘Painted by Sir William Beechey R. A. Portrait painter to Her Majesty. Engraved by P. W. Tomkins. Historical Engraver to Her Majesty./ John Blackburn Est. M. P./ For the Proprietor. Published as the Act directs June 1801 by P. W. Tomkins. No. 49. New Bond Street, London.’ With further handwritten annotation ‘1794’.

    John Blackburne (1754-1833), British landowner, Member of Parliament and High Sheriff of Lancashire, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1794.
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