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 LIST OF PORTRAITS IN OIL 



IN THE POSSESSION OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY 



Presented by 

 Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel (1586-1646). Sir Isaac Newton 



Connoisseur and Art Collector : formed at Arundel House the first considerable 

 art collection in England. Filled high State offices previous to the civil wars. 

 The Arundel Library, purchased by him in Germany, and containing the greater 

 part of the collection of Bilibald Pirckheimer, was presented to the Royal Society 

 by his grandson in 1667. 



By T. Murray, after Van Dyck. 



Francis Aston, F.R.S. (died 1715). 



Sec.R.S. 1681-5, and a benefactor of the Society ; member of the Committee 

 appointed by the Society to report upon the controversy between the friends of 

 Newton and Leibnitz as to the invention of the Differential Calculus. 



By F. Kerseboom. 



Francis Bacon (1561-1626). Martin Folkes, P.R.S., 1754 



Appointed Attorney-General 1613, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal 1617, and 

 Lord Chancellor, with the title of Baron Verulam, in 1618. Subsequently deprived 

 of his high offices, he devoted himself to philosophical pursuits, and is famous as 

 the originator of the modern school of experimental philosophy. 



Painted in the Studio of Paul Van Somer. 



Sir Joseph Banks, Bart., Pres.R.S. ) 



,,. 1QOA . Lion Jose de Mendoza Rios, 1818 



(I/ 4o lo^U^. 



Elected F.R.S. 1766 ; President 1778-1820. (See also p. 203.) 

 By Thomas Phillips, R.A. 

 Sir John Barrow, Bart., F.R.S.) -n-n c 



(1764-1848). John Barr W Es( l" RR ' S " 1866 



Civil Servant, Traveller, and Author. Secretary to the Admiralty for forty 

 years, and there, assisted by the Royal Society, he originated and organized many 

 Arctic voyages of discovery. Active in establishing the Royal Geographical 

 Society. Created a Baronet in 1835. Elected F.R.S. in 1805 and served 

 frequently on the Council. 



By Stephen Pearce after a portrait by J. Jackson, R.A. 



Charles Theodore, Elector Palatine of) 



\ The Elector of Bavaria, 1785 



Bavana. 



Succeeded to the sovereignty of Bavaria in 1777. Benjamin Thompson, F.R.S., 

 afterwards founder of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, was in his service 

 1784-95, and was by him created Count Rumford. 



Painter unknown. 



Thomas Birch, D.D., F.R.S. (1705-66). 



Theologian and Author. Elected F.R.S. 1735 ; Secretary 1752-65. Published 

 a ' History' of the Royal Society containing a detailed record of its early 

 activities. 



By J. Wells. 



