Patrick Miller

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Banker and inventor, Miller made a fortune through the rapid economic expansion of Glasgow during the second half of the eighteenth century. He moved from trade to banking and attained the office of deputy governor of the Bank of Scotland, 1790. An early admirer and patron of the poet Robert Burns, in later life he devoted himself to agriculture, ordnance and ship design. In 1788, he worked alongside the engineer William Symington to design the world's first steam-propelled boat, an important milestone of the Industrial Revolution.
Miller is shown in his role as banker, in which capacity he worked for the Bank of Scotland, rather than as the inventor he became in later life.

National Portrait Gallery, London

London

Title

Patrick Miller

Date

c.1770

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 74.9 x W 62.2 cm

Accession number

2009

Acquisition method

Purchased, 1923

Work type

Painting

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