Credit: The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.2440

    Portrait of Samuel Lysons

    Date
    1823
    Sitter
    Samuel Lysons (1763 - 1819, British) , Antiquary
    Creator
    William Bond (1772 - 1827, British ) , Engraver
    After
    William John Newton (1785 - 1869, British) , Painter
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    Dimensions
    height (print): 140mm
    width (print): 105mm
    Description
    Half-length seated portrait showing Samuel Lysons turned slightly to the left, as viewed, with his face looking out towards the right. He is seen in a dark jacket and waistcoat with a white cravat around his neck. His left arm rests on a side table and draped curtains form the backdrop behind him, with a natural landscape just visible through a gap in the curtains by his right shoulder.

    Annotated below: ‘Engraved for the History of the Town, from a miniature by Newton’

    Samuel Lysons (1763-1819), British antiquary, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1797.
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