Credit: © The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.21175

    Portrait of Matthew Duane

    Date
    1798
    Sitter
    Matthew Duane (1707 - 2006)
    Creator
    James Mitan (1776 - 1822, British) , Engraver
    John Thane (1748 - 1818, British) , Printer
    After
    Giles Hussey (1710 - 1788, British) , Painter
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    Dimensions
    height (print): 85mm
    width (print): 70mm
    Subject
    Description
    Portrait of Matthew Duane in right profile, dressed in a queue wig with white necktie. Presented in an oval frame.

    Inscribed: ‘Gyles Hussey advivum del. 1774 James Mitan Sculp. 1798. MATTHEW DUANE ESQ.R. OF LINCOLN’S INN./ ob.1785 Aetat 78./ He was of great Eminence in the Knowledge of the Law, and of the strictest Integrity and Liberality in the Practice of it./ At the same Time the Friend and Patron of the Polite and fine Arts; and particularly distinguished by his singular Skill, Judgement, and Taste, in collecting of Syrian, Phoenician, Grecian, Roman and other Coins, now deposited in the Museum of the late William Hunter, M.D./ He was Fellow of the Royal & Antiquarian Societies and a Trustee of the British Museum. London Publisher. Sept.r. 1. 1798. By J. Thane. Spur Street. Leicester Square.’

    Matthew Duane (1707–1785), British conveyancer and art patron, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1763.
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