[The Revd John Harmar Sheffield, Patentee of the Machines for raising and shearing Cloth]

Chalk and bodycolour portrait of Rev.John Harmar (patentee of machines for raising and shearing cloth) / J. R. Smith. Original for the mezzotint 1798 Sept. 10, following the death of Harmar 1798 Mar.26; some mpressions were printed in colours. - Presented by Harmar's family to Bennet Woodcroft as the first gift towards the formation by him of a national Gallery of the Portraits of Inventors ... 1853 Dec. 6. Portrait, HL to L, in wig bands and plain coat. Ref: O'Donoghue; Chaloner Smith, 72; Woodcroft, Gallery, 1