Sir Richard Owen

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From the mid-1830s the leading British comparative anatomist; one of the most formidable opponents of evolutionary theories, which he disputed with Huxley; superintendent of the Natural History Department of the British Museum, and designed new natural history galleries at South Kensington.
Owen is shown with a white nautilus shell with brown markings: the glass jar contains the mollusc itself. Owen published a Memoir of the Pearly Nautilus in 1832.

National Portrait Gallery, London

London

Title

Sir Richard Owen

Date

c.1845

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 142.9 x W 111.8 cm

Accession number

938

Acquisition method

Given by the sitter's daughter-in-law, Mrs Emily Owen, 1893

Work type

Painting

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