Credit: The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.22036

    Portrait of Robert Mylne

    Date
    1860
    Sitter
    Robert Mylne (1734 - 1811, British) , Architect
    Creator
    Henry Adlard (1799 - 1893, British) , Engraver
    After
    Maria Mylne (1772 - 1794, British) , Miniaturist
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    Material
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    Dimensions
    height (print): 273mm
    width (print): 204mm
    Subject
    Description
    Profile portrait of Robert Mylne facing right, seen within an oval frame decorated below with laurel leaves and the Mylne coat of arms. The family motto in Latin reads 'Tam Arte Quam Marte' (As much by Skill as by Strength). Reproduction after a miniature by his daughter, Maria Mylne.

    Inscribed below: 'From a Miniature by Maria Mylne, 1795.’ ‘Engraved by H.Adlard, 1860.’ ‘ROBERT MYLNE, F.R.S. / Member of the Academy of St Luke's at Rome_ The School of Design at Florence, and the Institute of Bologna. / Citizen of Rome_ London_ Edinburgh_ Glasgow_ Dunbarton_ / ARCHITECT_ ENGINEER_ SURVEYOR.’ ‘Architect of Blackfriars Bridge, / Engineer to the New River Company for 42 years, / Surveyor to St Paul's Cathedral for 50 years.’ ‘BORN IN EDINBURGH 1733_ DIED IN LONDON 1811.’ ‘Private Plate.’

    Robert Mylne (1734–1811), British architect and engineer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1767.
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