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Description: | Drawing: with touches of white bodycolour. The National Portrait Gallery has a left-profile pencil head study of Banks by Sir Francis Chantrey which they date to c. 1819. The similarity of the hairline and hairstyle style in this drawing, and the dress, suggest it is of about the same date. Banks, a wealthy young Lincolnshire landowner and already an amateur botanist of note (FRS 1766), sailed with Cook on his first Pacific voyage in the 'Endeavour',1768-71, together with his own privately funded scientific 'suite', notably the botanist Daniel Solander and the artist Sydney Parkinson. The specimens and records he brought back were the foundation on which he built his subsequent career as influential royal adviser on scientific matters and long-term president of the Royal Society.
Box Title: Portraits 1820. | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | drawings 1743-1820 Naturalist Joseph Banks | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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