Portrait of Michael Faraday (1791-1867) mb-height 3849 St David's Day - Picture

St David's Day - Picture Gallery - The umbrella may be English-made but the rest of the costume worn by Mrs Mair Davies- Harrington

wife of Philip II of Spain (1527-98)

'Walking the streets of London'

View of Paul's Wharf south of Upper Thames Street

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Portrait of Michael Faraday (1791-1867) mb-height 3849 St David's Day - PictureHalf length portrait of Michael Faraday. Looking to the viewer's right, his left hand and index finger extended, as if in the act of speaking or lecturing. Faraday is dressed in a black jacket and tie, with a white shirt. To the left of the painting as viewed is a glass tube with brass fittings containing electrodes and a spirit burner, intended to represent Faraday's work on electrolysis. Michael Faraday was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in