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Title: Historical portraits; some notes on the painted portraits of celebrated characters of England, Scotland and Ireland
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Wheatley, Henry B. (Henry Benjamin), 1838-1917
Subjects: Portrait painters
Publisher: London, G. Bell
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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ept the Presi-dentship, May, 1857. Franklins portrait at the Royal Society isanonymous. The Marquis of Lansdowne has afine one by Gainsborough, Earl Stanhope one byD. Martin, and the National Portrait Gallery oneby F. Baricolo. A distinguished but little known savant wasWilliam Sturgeon, the inventor of the electro-magnet. Professor Silvanus Thompson, F.R.S.,who has sought for a portrait of this scientificman, has not been successful in his search. Literature. Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton are univers-ally acknowledged as the three greatest Englishpoets, but although some critics have been sopresumptuous as to add a fourth, it is not likelythat there will ever be unanimity as to who thatfourth shall be. We are singularly fortunate in having an ex-cellent contemporary portrait of Chaucer in anHarleian manuscript (4866) in the British Museum.Perhaps it is a mere assumption to attribute thedrawing to Occleve. At all events the portraitcomes to us with his sanction, but without that it
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MICHAEL FARADAY, BY T. PHILLIPS. SCIENCE, LITERATURE, AND ART 223 would carry conviction to the minds of all that lookat it that here we have the actual likeness of themorning star of English poetry. The two portraits of Shakespeare which come tous with the strongest claims to authenticity, arethe Chandos portrait (now in the National PortraitGallery), which has an excellent pedigree, and theDroeshout portrait on the title-page of the folioeditions of Shakespeares plays. The original maynot be much of a work of art, but we have thehighest authority for believing it to be a likeness.The late Mr. J. O. Halliwell Phillipps possessedwhat he considered to be the gem of his collection,viz., the original proof of the engraving before itwas altered by an inferior hand into the vitiatedform in which it has been so long familiar to thepublic. Mr. Phillipps further wrote, This is theearliest engraved portrait of the great dramatist,and differs so much from the later impressions,that it gives a n

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