Credit: ©The Royal Society
Image number: RS.5193
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Portrait of Richard Payne Knight
Date
1811
Sitter
Richard Payne Knight (1751 - 1824, British) , Art collector
Creator
Edward Scriven (1775 - 1841, British) , Engraver
After
Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769 - 1830, British) , Painter
Object type
Image reference
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 214mm
width (print): 213mm
width (print): 213mm
Subject
Description
Half-length portrait of Knight turned to the left as viewed, wearing a fur-collared coat, white shirt and cravat.
Below, an original inscription cut and mounted separately: “RICHARD PAYNE KNIGHT, ESQ. F.R.S.” In pencil lower right “not FRS”.
Richard Payne Knight was not a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Below, an original inscription cut and mounted separately: “RICHARD PAYNE KNIGHT, ESQ. F.R.S.” In pencil lower right “not FRS”.
Richard Payne Knight was not a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Transcription
RICHARD PAYNE KNIGHT, ESQ. F.R.S
not FRS
not FRS
Object history
Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.39. J.P.Gassiot Collection, purchased 1878 [?].
Associated place