Portrait of Isaac Milner
Date
1798
Sitter
Isaac Milner (1750 - 1820, British) , Mathematician
Creator
Johann Gottlieb Facius (1750 - 1802, German) , Engraver
After
John Opie (1761 - 1807, British) , Painter
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Description
Three-quarter length seated portrait of Isaac Milner in dark robes and a white cravat, shown within a dark room. Towards the left edge of the image a glass retort can be seen suspended over a small furnace, referencing his method for producing nitrous acid which was published in 1789 in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
Inscribed below: ‘J. Opie pinx.’ ‘Facius sculp. 1798.’ ‘ISAACUS MILNER. S.T.P., S.R. SOC. / Decanus Ecclesiæ Cathedralis Carleolensis, / olim Chemiae & Philosophie nauralis, nunc Matheseos Professor apud Cantabrigienses, / Et Collegii Reginalis Prœses.’
Isaac Milner (1750-1820), British mathematician and chemist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1780.
Inscribed below: ‘J. Opie pinx.’ ‘Facius sculp. 1798.’ ‘ISAACUS MILNER. S.T.P., S.R. SOC. / Decanus Ecclesiæ Cathedralis Carleolensis, / olim Chemiae & Philosophie nauralis, nunc Matheseos Professor apud Cantabrigienses, / Et Collegii Reginalis Prœses.’
Isaac Milner (1750-1820), British mathematician and chemist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1780.