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Description: | The Science Museum collections reflect the collecting areas, largely science, technology and medicine and include portraits of notable aeronauts, astronauts, astronomers, balloonists, chemists, child prodigies, civil engineers, cosmonauts, explorers, horologists, inventors, mathematicians, mechanical engineers, natural philosophers, physicists, physicians, scientific instrument makers, and scientists.
Portraits, numbering more than a thousand, cover the period from classical history to the present day and are recorded in various media including oils, watercolours, drawings, prints, sculpture, cameo portraits, photographs, daguerreotypes, silhouettes, coins, medals, stamps, banknotes and include styles such as caricatures and satires.
Notable collections including portraits include the Winifred Penn-Gaskell bequest (ballooning, aeronautics) and Bennet Woodcroft (Patent Office Museum).
Notable paintings and drawings include:
James Watt (1736-1819), Scottish engineer, by Carl Fredrik von Breda, one of three known versions of an oil painting produced by von Breda on a visit to Boulton and Watt in Birmingham in 1792.
Richard Trevithick (1771-1833), Cornish engineer and inventor, oil on canvas painting by John Linnell, 1816.
John Harrison (1693-1776), English inventor and horologist, oil on canvas by Thomas King, about 1767, (currently on loan to the National Maritime Museum).
George Graham (1673-1751), clock and instrument maker, oil on canvas, by Thomas Hudson (1701-1779), c 1710 painted 1740s.
John Arnold (1736-1799), English watch and chronometer maker, with his wife, Margaret (1743/4�1789), and son John Roger Arnold (1769-1843), oil on canvas, by Robert Davy, about 1783.
Stephenson Family (The Birthplace of the Locomotive), oil on canvas, by William Lucas, 1861, including George Stephenson (1781-1848) after painting by John Lucas.
Isaac Newton (1642-1727), oil painting by Thomas Barlow, 1863, after the original by Sir Godfrey Kneller of 1689.
Ada Lovelace (1815-1852), 1st wife of William King, the daughter of Lord Byron, watercolour portrait attributed to Alfred Edward Chalon, 1840. Ada studied mathematics and corresponded with Charles Babbage
Joseph Paxton, (1801- 1865), English architect and designer of the Crystal Palace, c 1851. Three-quarter length watercolour portrait by an unknown artist.
Mrs Laetitia Sage, the first English lady balloonist, 1785, oil on canvas by an unknown artist.
James Ferguson (1710-1776), astronomer, instrument maker, oil on canvas, by an unknown artist.
Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), Anglo-American theologian and chemist, c 1770-1800, framed oval Wedgwood jasperware plaque, c 1860-1868, cameo portrait by John Flaxman.
Richard Arkwright (1732-1792), by Joseph Wright of Derby, 1790. Oil on canvas, after the full length oil commissioned by the sitter, 1789-90. Commissioned from Wright by Jedediah Strutt, friend and patron of sitter; by family descent, the 'Belper' Arkwright
Albert Einstein (1879-1955), theoretical physicist, bronze bust by Jacob Epstein, 1933 and photograph of Einstein in Norfolk in 1933 by Planet News Ltd.
Stephen Hawking (b 1942), oil on canvas by Yolande Sonnabend, 1985, a sketch for the final version of the portrait in the NPG.
Man holding a watch attributed to Maso da San Friano, oil on panel, 1558-1560, an unidentified man holds a 16th century watch, Renaissance period.
Prints and drawings include Elias Allen, Charles Babbage, Peter Barlow, John Bartlett, Jons Jacob Berzelius, George Bidder, Joseph Black, Jean Pierre Blanchard, Matthew Boulton, James Brindley, Alexander Crum Brown,.William Buckland, Jacques Charles, Humphry Davy, George Dollond, John Dollond, Peter Dollond, Bryan Donkin, John Flamsteed, Franz Joseph Gall, Charles Green, James Gregory, Goldsworthy Gurney, John Hadley, William Harvey, Caroline Herschel, John Herschel, William Herschel, Johannes Hevelius, Edward Jenner, Amy Johnson, James Prescott Joule, John Kay, Johann Nathanael Lieberk�hn, Linnaeus, Vincent Lunardi, James Mann, Henry Maudslay, James Clerk Maxwell, Dmitri Mendeleev, John Joseph Merlin, Ludwig Mond, Paracelsus, Louis Pasteur, Joseph Priestley, Jesse Ramsden, John Rennie, John Smeaton, Marie Stopes, Thomas Telford, Joseph John Thomson, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Andreas Vesalius and William Hyde Wollaston.
Photographs include Frederick Abel, John Couch Adams, John Louis Agassiz, George Biddell Airy, Leon Bollee, David Brewster, Hugh Longbourne Callendar, Samuel Franklin Cody, William Crookes, Charles Darwin, John Dickinson, Thoams Alva Edison, Michael Faraday, Claude Grahame-White, August Hofmann, David Joy, James Glaisher, Lawrence Hargrave, Richard Hornsby, Thomas Henry Huxley, Edwin Lankester, Baron Justus von Liebig, Oliver Lodge, Hiram Maxim, Chrissie Millie, R J Mitchell, John Napier, James Nasmyth, Alexander Parkes, John Penn, William Perkin, William Ramsay, John Scott Russell, Ernest Rutherford, Edward Sabine, James Kemp Starley, George Gabriel Stokes, John Stringfellow, John Tyndall, Barnes Wallis, William Whewell, Henry Wickham, Charles Wheatstone, Joseph Whitworth and Henry Wimshurst.
Group portraits include:
Distinguished Men of Science of Great Britain living in the years 1807-1808, The County Meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society of England [Bristol, 1842], the Cavendish Laboratory in 1928 and photoprints of the Solvay Physics Conferences, Brussels, including 7th conference in 1933, signed by a number of the attendees including James Chadwick (1891-1974), Ernest Rutherford (1871- 1937), Marie Curie (1867-1934) and her daughter Irene Joliot-Curie (1897-1956), P Langevin (1872-1946), PMS Blackett (1897-1974), Lise Meitner (1878-1968) and Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958).
Medals and tokens include commemorative medals with portraits of Marc Isambard Brunel, James Watt, William Perkin, Isaac Newton, Joseph Whitworth, John Dalton, and balloonists such as the Montgolfier brothers, Lunardi and Blanchard, and Nobel Prizes.
Search the collections of the National Museum of Science & Industry using an advanced search with portrait in the Object Type field http://collectionsonline.nmsi.ac.uk | Subjects: | civil engineering technology physics natural philosophy aeronautics astronomy mathematics science exploration space technology inventions scientific instruments chemistry ballooning medicine industry mechanical engineering horology | Temporal: | Classical period - contemporary, particularly 1700-2000 | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Identifier: | ScM | Language: | English | Go to resource |
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