Credit: The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.2705

    Portrait of William Taylor Money

    Date
    1801
    Sitter
    William Taylor Money (1769 - 1834, British) , Naval officer
    Creator
    Charles Turner (1774 - 1857, British) , Engraver
    After
    Gainsborough Dupont (1754 - 1797, British) , Painter
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    Description
    Three-quarter length seated portrait of William Taylor Money at a writing desk. He is shown in a tailored jacket, buttoned shirt and frilled silk cravat. A number of books and letters can be seen on his desk, as well as three inkwells and a quill pen. He is shown in a casual pose with his right arm over the back of his chair and his left hand resting by his hip.

    Inscribed below: ‘G. Dupont pinxt.’ ‘C. Turner sculpt.’ ‘WILLIAM MONEY Esqr. / A Director of the Honorable United East India Company / And Elder Brother of the Corporation of Trinity House.’

    William Taylor Money (1769-1834), British naval captain, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1818.
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