Portrait of Lyon Playfair
Date
1851
Sitter
Lyon Playfair (1818 - 1898, British) , Chemist
Creator
Thomas Herbert Maguire (1821 - 1895, British) , Lithographer
Object type
Image reference
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 510mm
width (print): 393mm
width (print): 393mm
Subject
Description
Three-quarter length portrait of Lyon Playfair in a dark three-piece suit with a white shirt and black bowtie. He is shown in a relaxed pose with his head resting on his right hand and his elbow on the back of the chair. He is seen wearing spectacles and with neat, dark hair.
Inscribed: ‘T, He Maguire, / 1851.’ Inscribed below: ‘Lyon Playfair / M. &. N. HANHART IMPT.’
Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair (1818-1898), British chemist and politician, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1848.
Inscribed: ‘T, He Maguire, / 1851.’ Inscribed below: ‘Lyon Playfair / M. &. N. HANHART IMPT.’
Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair (1818-1898), British chemist and politician, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1848.
Object history
From the ‘Ipswich Museum Portraits’, a series of sixty lithographic portraits of male scientists published by George Ransome in 1852 to commemorate the opening of Ipswich Museum.