Portrait of Michael Faraday (1791-1867) mb-height 3849 Sir Richard Attenborough

Sir Richard Attenborough

St David's Day - Picture Gallery - The umbrella may be English-made but the rest of the costume worn by Mrs Mair Davies- Harrington

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Portrait of Michael Faraday (1791-1867) mb-height 3849 Sir Richard AttenboroughHalf length portrait of Michael Faraday. Looking to the viewer's right, his left hand and index finger extended, as if in the act of speaking or lecturing. Faraday is dressed in a black jacket and tie, with a white shirt. To the left of the painting as viewed is a glass tube with brass fittings containing electrodes and a spirit burner, intended to represent Faraday's work on electrolysis. Michael Faraday was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in