Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.9737
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    Portrait of John MacCulloch

    Date
    ca. 1820
    Sitter
    John Macculloch (1773 - 1835, British) , Surgeon
    Creator
    Benjamin Rawlinson Faulkner (1787 - 1849, British) , Painter
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (painting): 1122mm
    width (painting): 861mm
    Subject
    Description
    Half-length portrait of John MacCulloch seated, resting his left hand on the gilded arm of the chair. His right hand holds a pen poised over a sheet of paper on a table to the left of the picture as viewed. MacCulloch wears a red coat with a fur collar over black trousers. His white shirt is open at the collar and there is a seal or watch at his hip, hanging from a blue ribbon.

    John MacCulloch (1773–1835), British surgeon and geologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1820.
    Transcription
    National Portrait Exhibition 1868
    Reign of – ‘GIV’
    Portrait of – ‘John McCullock M.D. (Faulkner)’
    Lent by – ‘The Royal Society’
    Address – ‘Burlington House’

    John MacCulloch M.D. F.R.S. &c
    8166
    JOHN MACCULLOCH (1773-1835) by B.R.FAULKNER
    Object history
    Bequeathed by Louisa Magaretta MacCulloch (nee White), 1858.

    The bequest of the picture was recorded in Council Minutes: “The Secretary stated that the Portrait of the late Dr. John Macculloch, F.R.S., had been bequeathed to the Society by his Widow, lately deceased; and that the Picture had been received from her executors“ [Royal Society Council Minutes, Printed, CMP/2 1846-1858, meeting of 30 November 1858, p.455].
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