Sir William Herschel
Summary
: K1013
: Fine Art
: drawing/watercolour
: Sir William Herschel
: SHARPLES, James Senior
: a framed colour drawing on grey paper, showing: a half-length portrait in profile of Sir William Herschel (1738-1822), the Hanover-born astronomer, also musician, who lived in Bath between 1766 and 1782; this work is undated, but on the basis of the apparent age of the sitter and comparison with other portraits it probably dates to about 1805, when the artist was back in England having returned from the USA
Current Location
: circa 1805
: [Book] Knox, Katharine M. 1930. The Sharples: their Portraits of George Washington and his Contemporaries. 1. 134.: [Book] Quick, Richard. 1910. Catalogue of the Sharples Collection of Pastel Portraits and Oil Paintings. 1. 32.: Purchased, 1931