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This is a copy after a 1689 original by Sir Godfrey Kneller made for the ‘National Gallery of Portraits of Inventors, Discoverers and Introducers of the Useful Arts’ developed by Bennet Woodcroft at the Museum of Patents (an ancestor of the Science Museum). The original Kneller portrait remains in the possession of the Earl of Portsmouth. Samuel Crompton (grandson of the inventor) sent a photograph of the Kneller painting to Woodcroft in March 1860. Woodcroft had, by 18 December 1861, forwarded the photograph to the engraver Thomas Oldham Barlow, who asked Lord Portsmouth’s permission to engrave the painting. On 6 December 1861, Crompton advised Barlow that other engravers were also interested in engraving the portrait, and Barlow acted promptly.
Title
Isaac Newton (1642–1727)
Date
1862–1863
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 74 x W 62 cm
Accession number
1903-140
Acquisition method
Bennet Woodcroft Bequest
Work type
Painting
Inscription description
Inscribed recto: l., ISAACVS NEWTONVS.; r., Godfrey Kneller f. 1689. Inscribed verso: Copied from the original picture by permission of Lord Portsmouth. Thomas Oldham Barlow 1863.
