Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.21123

    Portrait of Matthew Boulton

    Date
    1803
    Sitter
    Matthew Boulton (1728 - 1809, British) , Manufacturer
    Creator
    K Mackenzie, Engraver
    Object type
    Library reference
    9183
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (print): 210mm
    width (print): 128mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of Matthew Boulton, seated, with the Soho manufactory revealed behind, a curtain above and behind the sitter. Boulton’s right hand is visible [shown holding a magnifying glass in the original oil painting]. Presented in an oval.

    Illustration [plate not numbered] for the article ‘Biographical account of Matthew Boulton, Esq.’, The Philosophical Magazine…[edited] by Alexander Tilloch, v.15, (1803), pp.59-63.

    Inscribed below, ‘Matthew Boulton Esq. C.F. de Breda R.A. of Stockholm, pinxt. K. Mackenzie sculp. Published by A. Tilloch March. 1 1803.’.

    Matthew Boulton (1728-1809), British manufacturer and entrepreneur, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1785.
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