| Portrait of Michael Faraday | |
|---|---|
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| Artist | Thomas Phillips |
| Year | 1841–42 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, portrait painting |
| Dimensions | 90.8 cm × 71.1 cm (35.7 in × 28.0 in) |
| Location | National Portrait Gallery, London |
Portrait of Michael Faraday is an 1842 portrait painting by the British artist Thomas Phillips depicting the English scientist Michael Faraday. Faraday was a leading physicist and chemist who began his career as an assistant to Humphry Davy.
Phillips was a noted portraitist of the Regency and early Victorian era. He depicts Faraday with a trough battery of the sort he used in his electrical experiments while the furnace flames to the right are a reference to the scientist's metallurgical experiments. The painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy's 1842 Summer Exhibition. Today it is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London, having been acquired in 1868.
See also
- Portrait of Sir Humphry Davy, an 1821 painting by Thomas Lawrence
References
- Wheatley p.218
- Funnell p.20
- Tibbetts p.63
- https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portraitExtended/mw02170/Michael-Faraday?_gl=1*8mped7*_up*MQ..*_ga*MTIxNzAzMjA1Mi4xNzM2NTczNTc1*_ga_3D53N72CHJ*MTczNjU3MzU3NS4xLjEuMTczNjU3MzU3NS4wLjAuMA..
Bibliography
- Funnell, Peter. Victorian Portraits in the National Portrait Gallery Collection. National Portrait Gallery, 1996.
- Tibbetts, Gary G. How the Great Scientists Reasoned: The Scientific Method in Action. Newnes, 2013.
- Wheatley, Henry Benjamin. Historical portraits. George Bell, 1897.
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