Portrait of George Manby (1765-1854) Size:S: 36 x 28cm a number of states in

a number of states in the slave-owning south of America left the Union following the election of Abraham Lincoln as President in 1860

New York in 1924

Frontispiece from the book The natural history of monkeys

Original is oil on canvas 79x91

4th March 1966

Portrait of George Manby (1765-1854) Size:S: 36 x 28cm a number of states inManby is painted standing at three quarter length in military uniform (Manby was Captain in the Cambridgeshire militia) holding a highly decorated [prize?] sabre. Behind, a maritime scene of a vessel in stormy seas, in reference to Manby's invention of a life saving mortar for use in shipwrecks. George Manby was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1831. Original: oil on canvas, 1270x1016mm. ca. 1813