Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.5191
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    Portrait of William Howard

    Date
    1818
    Sitter
    William Howard, Viscount Stafford (1612 - 1680, British) , Nobleman
    After
    Anthony van Dyck (1599 - 1641, Flemish) , Painter
    Object type
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    Dimensions
    height (print): 278mm
    width (print): 225mm
    Description
    Oval, head and shoulders portrait with long natural hair, dark coat and white squared collar.

    Inscribed below: “WILLIAM VISCOUNT STAFFORD See Burnet p- [illegible] Pub.1st. May 1818, by T.Rodd. 2. Gt. Newport St. Long Acre.” In pencil, lower left “1664” and lower right “1/-“.

    William Howard, Viscount Stafford, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1664.
    Transcription
    WILLIAM VISCOUNT STAFFORD See Burnet p- [illegible] Pub.1st. May 1818, by T.Rodd. 2. Gt. Newport St. Long Acre
    1664
    1/-
    Object history
    Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.75. J.P.Gassiot Collection, purchased 1878.
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