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    Image number: RS.9660
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    Portrait of Everard Home

    Date
    1829
    Sitter
    Everard Home, 1st Baronet (1756 - 1832, British) , Surgeon
    Creator
    Thomas Phillips (1770 - 1845, British) , Painter
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (painting): 764mm
    width (painting): 647mm
    Subject
    Description
    Half-length portrait of Home, shown in a black coat worn over a yellow waistcoat, with a white shirt and cravat. Looking to the viewer’s left, against a red background.

    Sir Everard Home was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1787.
    Transcription
    SIR EVERARD HOME, F.R.S., (1756-1832) by T.PHILLIPS, R.A.
    Sr. Everard Home Bart. P.1829
    1st F. 102
    Object history
    Presented by Sir Everard Home (1798-1853) 2nd Baronet and son of the sitter.

    The donation is recorded in a supplementary listing of presents received by the Society during 1832-1833: “Portrait of the late Sir Everard Home, Bart., V.P.R.S. [Donor] Capt. Sir E.Home.” ["Presents received by the Royal Society with the names of donors...from 15th November 1832 to 20th June 1833”, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society vol.128 1838, supplement, p14].
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