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                                 Image number: RS.9574
                             
                         
                         
                     
                 
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            Portrait of Davies Gilbert
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                                1846
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                Davies Gilbert (1767 - 1839, British) , Mathematician
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
                                Creator
                            
                            
                                James Thomson (1788 - 1850, British) , Printmaker
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
                                After
                            
                            
                                Henry Howard (1769 - 1847, British) , Painter
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                Dimensions
                            
                            
                                height (print): 297mm
width (print): 222mm
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            width (print): 222mm
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                                Description
                            
                            
                                Head and shoulders portrait of Davies Gilbert wearing a dark suit with a white neck cloth. Dark background.  
Inscribed: “Painted by H.Howard R.A. Engraved by J.Thomson, DAVIES GILBERT, ESQ. M.P. P.R.S. FISHER SON & Co., 1846”. With a facsimile signature. In pencil lower left “1791”.
Davies Gilbert was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1791. He served as President of the Royal Society 1827-1830.
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            Inscribed: “Painted by H.Howard R.A. Engraved by J.Thomson, DAVIES GILBERT, ESQ. M.P. P.R.S. FISHER SON & Co., 1846”. With a facsimile signature. In pencil lower left “1791”.
Davies Gilbert was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1791. He served as President of the Royal Society 1827-1830.
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