Portrait of Joseph Banks (1743-1820) Size:L: 100 x 50cm Alexandrum van Megen

Alexandrum van Megen

St Saviour's Church

One of eight mirror paintings depicting marital scenes

6th February 1980

Portrait of Joseph Banks (1743-1820) Size:L: 100 x 50cm Alexandrum van MegenDetail from Royal Society's portrait of Banks, seated in the Presidential chair surmounted by the Society's coat of arms and wearing the ribbon and star of the Order of Bath. Inscribed: 'Engraved by C. E. Wagstaff. SIR J. BANKS. From a Picture by T. Phillips, in the possession of the Royal Society. Under the Superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. London. Published by Charles Knight, Pall Mall East.' Inscribed in pencil