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Painting. [Sir William Henry Perkin] / nd. [1906-]. Oil on canvas; 112.5x89.5cm in black wood edge display frame 114x91x3cm. - After the larger oil of 1906 by Sir Arthur Stockdale Cope (1857-1940), exhibited 1907 Royal Academy [cat.103], now in the National Portrait Gallery London. - Portrait of Sir William Henry Perkin (1838-1907), chemist, inventor of synthetic dyes, founder of coal tar colour industry; TQL, looking front, holding skein of mauveine [aniline mauve dye discovered 1856, English Patent no. 1984]; on table to r, glass chemical apparatus and dark red powders. [Thus, portrait painted first upon occasion of jubilee, 50th anniversary of discovery, for which Perkin also knighted in 1906]
Details
- Category:
- Art
- Object Number:
- 1986-627
- Materials:
- oil paint on canvas and wood (unidentified)
- Measurements:
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overall: 1140 mm x 900 mm x 30 mm,
frame: 1140 mm x 910 mm x 30 mm,
image: 1125 mm x 895 mm
- type:
- oil painting and portrait
- credit:
- ICI Ltd (Organics Division)
