Credit: © The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.21178

    Portrait of Jean Baptiste Andre Dumas

    Date
    c.1800
    Sitter
    Jean Baptiste Andre Dumas (1800 - 1884, French) , Chemist
    Creator
    Antoine Maurin (1793 - 1860, French) , Engraver
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    Dimensions
    height (print): 480mm
    width (print): 315mm
    Subject
    Description
    Half-length portrait of Jean Baptiste Andre Dumas inclined slightly to the right [as viewed] dressed in a dinner jacket, a decorative waistcoat, a shirt and black necktie.

    Inscribed: ‘Mairin d’apres nature/ DUMAS/ Rosselin, sucr. de Mme. Delpech, 21, quai Voltaire, Paris. Lith. De Gregorie & Deneux, 9 rue Casette.’ With further handwritten annotation ‘Elec 1840’.

    Jean Baptiste Andre Dumas (1800 – 1884), French chemist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1840.
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