National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain) · London, New York [etc.] Cassell and company, limited · leaf 118
nted in 1793 by Charles Frederick de Breda.Presented by Matthew P. Watt Boulton, Esq., 1865. (186A.) JOHN PLAYFAIR, M.A., F.R.S. SCOT. 1748-1819. Painted by SirHenry Raeburn, R.A. Natural philosopher and mathematician. In 1785 he becameProfessor of Mathematics in the University of Edinburgh, and… … No. i5s6a. 49^; in. by 39£ in. No. 840. 49r in- by 39i io4 THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY. SIR WILLIAM HERSCHEL. K.H., F.R.S. 1738-1822. Painted in 1785 by Lemuel Francis Abbott. Astronomer. Born at Hanover. At first a musician and organist.In 1780 Herschel commenced his contributions to the…
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