Mrs. Sage

.Unattributed

1785

Painting. [Mrs. Sage] / artist unknown, 1785. Oil on canvas, 77x 63cm or 92 x 78.5 x 11 cm in gilt frame. Portrait, HL, of Mrs. Letitia Ann Sage, 'The first English female aerial traveller' in Lunardi's balloon ascent of 29 June 1785; with balloon motif. Head, bust, white fur mantle, hat and half-veil. aeronaut/balloonist

Portrait of Francois Justin Vulliamy (1712 – 1797)

Clockmakers

1760-1790

Oil on canvas portrait of Francois Justin Vulliamy (1712 – 1797).

Richard Arkwright

Joseph Wright of

1790

Painting. Sir Richard Arkwright (1732-1792), by Joseph Wright of Derby, 1790. Oil on canvas; 76.5x64.2cm in gilt frame 80.5x93.5x6.5cm. After the full length oil commissioned by the sitter, 1789-90. Commissioned from Wright by Jedediah Strutt, friend and patron of sitter; by family descent, the 'Belper' Arkwright; in contemporary Belper family frame. Portrait: HL looking to L, in red coat with striped yellow-green waistcoat.

Posthumous portrait of George Daniels

Clockmakers

2011

Posthumous portrait of George Daniels by John Walton, RP, 2011.

Portrait of the Reverand Henry Nelthropp MA, FSA (1820 – 1901)

Clockmakers

1896

Portrait of the Reverand Henry Nelthropp MA, FSA, by D. A. Werschmidt

Portrait of Benjamin Gray (1676 – 1764)

Clockmakers

1745-1755

Portrait of Benjamin Gray (1676 – 1764), oil on canvas, attributed to J. Davison, mid 18th century.

Portrait of Thomas Vickery (1882 – 1945)

Clockmakers

1936

Portrait of Thomas Vickery (1882 – 1945) by unknown artist, possibly Vickery himself, 1936.

Portrait oil painting of John Arnold and family 1783-1787

Robert Davy

1783-1787

Painting. John Arnold and family / Robert Davy, [1783-1787]. Oil on canvas; 106x129cm in gilt frame, unglazed, 124x147x8cm. Group portrait depicting the watch and chronometer maker John Arnold (1736-1799) examining a chronometer, his son John Roger Arnold (1769-1843), active from 1783 as a watchmaker, and his wife Margaret Arnold (1743/4-1789). Robert Davy died in 1793 after being robbed. The portrait of John Arnold was engraved in mezzotint by Susan Esther Reid

Portrait of Edward East

Clockmakers

1601-1700

Portrait miniature, believed to be of Edward East, c.1650. Artist unknown

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

William Nutter

1797

Print. Stipple-engraved portrait entitled 'MRS. BRYAN and CHILDREN.' Engraved by William Nutter after a miniature of the same size painted by Samuel Shelley. 172x137mm engraved area.

John Harrison, oil painting

Thomas King

1767

Painting. John Harrison (1693-1776) / Thomas King, c1767. Oil on canvas; 125x100cm in gilt frame 144.5x120x8cm. - Titled centre l, on chronometer, John Harrison. - Portrait: Sitter nearly TQL seated to L beside table holding in right hand, watch made to his design by John Jeffries 1753. Third timekeeper H3, for ascertaining Longitude, delineated in background L. Chronometrical drawing. l. Invention of compound pendulum, background R.

Man holding a watch

Sebastiano del Piombo

1558-1560

Painting. [Man holding a watch] / [Maso da San Friano?]. - nd. [1558-1560]. - Oil on panel; 117 x 92.1x 3.5 cm. - Formerly attributed to Venetian artist Sebastiano del Piombo who died in 1547. This work has since been attributed to the Florentine artist Maso di San Friano (Tommaso Manzuoli, 1532/6-1571/5). - Three wax seals on verso of panel carry arms of the Hapsburg-Lorraine family, perhaps one of the Grand Dukes of Tuscany and Medici arms on one of the quarterings. - This is an early depiction of a 16th century watch (not a tableclock). - Portrait, TQL; an unidentified man holds a German, drum-shaped watch with chapters marked I to XII in Roman on an outer ring and 13 to 24 in Arabic numerals on an inner ring. The hinged, pierced cover of the gilt metal case is open. A looped tape passes through the pendant for suspension of the watch round the neck. A detached alarm mechanism stands on three feet on the table, surmounted by a bell and alongside, a carrying case. The owner is finely dressed, his left hand brc. rests on the head of a dog; Renaissance period

Robert Fulton

Charles Willson Peale

1800-1809

Painting, Robert Fulton (1765-1815), 180-. after Charles Willson Peale (1806/7) Oil on canvas; 77 x 63 cm. Portrait, HS to R.

Richard Trevithick

John Linnell

1816

Painting, Richard Trevithick, John Linnell, 1816. Oil on canvas; 61x 51cm in gilt frame 82x72x8cm. Portrait of Richard Trevithick (1771-1833) Cornish inventor and mining engineer developed the first high pressure steam engine and the first full-scale working railway steam locomotive.; John Linnell (1792-1882) was a well known English landscape and portrait painter and engraver. HL seated to R, looking front, with right hand pointing across and behind him to landscape.

Karl Leukhart

Art

1860-1869

Carte de Visite photograph of Leukhart.

Isaac Newton

Godfrey Kneller

1863

Painting, Isaac Newton (1642-1727) / Thomas Oldham Barlow (1824-1889), 1863. Copied from the original of 1689 by Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646/9-1723). Oil on canvas; 74 x 62 cm or 90 x 78 x 7 cm in gilt frame. Inscribed recto: l., ISAACVS NEWTONVS. ; r., Godfrey Kneller f. 1689. Inscribed verso: Copied from the original picture by permission of Lord Portsmouth. Thomas Oldham Barlow 1863. Portrait, HS, looking slightly to r.; natural hair, shirt open at neck, brown gown loosely wrapped, r. hand resting over l. arm.

R Chance.

Art

1863

Carte de Visite photograph. R. Chance.

'Dr James Barry MD', drawing, Europe, 1845-1855

Unknown maker

1845-1855

Dr James Barry MD (1785-1865) / [c1850]. Drawing, pencil and wash, col.; 31x22cm. Portrait, FL in uniform. Army surgeon who lived as a man, found to have been a woman after death. Legend on the reverse reads 'painted by an officer of the Buffs'.

Anamorphosis of King Charles I

.Unattributed

1740-1790

Painting. Anamorphosis of King Charles I, artist unknown, n.d. [c1740-1790]. Oil on canvas, 50.5x60.5cm. Portrait, HS in armour. With stand feet, probably Edwardian, attached at corners

Patrick Miller

Nasmyth, Alexander

1800-1810

Painting. [Patrick Miller of Dalswinton 1731-1815] / attributed to Alexander Nasmyth or follower, 180-. Oil on canvas; 73 x 61 cm or 99 x 87 x 7 cm in gilt frame. Portrait, HL looking R. seated in red chair

Alexander Parkes (1813-1890)

Unknown photographer

1870-1879

Photograph of Alexander Parkes (1813-1890) taken in Vienna 1875

Charles Babbage

Art

1860

Photograph, carte-de-visite style, of Charles Babbage, photographer unknown, 1860. 10.5x6cm. Reduced size version with image trimmed, of studio sitting for the International Statistical Congress 1860. Portrait, nearly FL seated to L, high chairback prominent

Sir Neil Cossons OBE

Keith Holmes

1996-1999

Painting. Sir Neil Cossons OBE, by Keith Holmes, artist in residence at the Science Museum, 1994 to 1996, completed 1999. Oil on board; image 102x121cm in frame by artist, 107x125x3.5cm. Left hand panel of a triptych about the Science Museum: looking at curatorship. The Director is seated working in his office, a modern manager using communications technologies. Behind him looking over his shoulder, a Parianware bust of Albert Prince Consort [by Brown-Westhead Moore Co, 1862; our Inv.1991-79], and hints of past curatorship and industrial heritage, Ironbridge; on the desk, present and future science including DNA, 60 molecular model, plan of the Wellcome Wing opening 2000, pictorial heritage represented by postcard of oil painting 'Coalbrookdale by Night' by Loutherbourg 1801 (Inv.1952-452), and a prism reflecting also the PRISM Fund and museum outreach programme; entry ticket hints at museum charges issue

Portrait of William Friese-Greene in a wooden frame

Cinematography

Portrait of William Friese-Greene in a wooden frame, taken by J C seaman, Bath.

Joseph Hooker

Art

1860-1869

Carte de Visite photograph of J.D.Hooker.

Arthur Hassall

Art

1860-1869

Carte de Visite photograph of Arthur Hill Hassall.

Carte de Visite photograph. Sir John Lubbock.

Art

1888

Carte de Visite photograph of Sir John Lubbock.

Edwin Chadwick

Maull and Polyblank

1860-1869

1 photograph, studio albumen, portrait, Edwin Chadwick, [186-], (1800-1890) / Maull and Polyblank, London, [186-], gilt border on card mount, 31x26cm., image 20x15cm.

John Hutton Balfour

Art

1850-1884

Carte de visite photograph. John Hutton Balfour. (1808–1884) botanist.

Portrait of unknown medical gentleman (previously Dr William Hunter)

.Unattributed

about 1770

Portrait of a medical gentleman. Unknown artist. Oil on canvas; 77x65cm. A handwritten label adhered on stretcher verso specifies Gainsborough as the artist and Dr William Hunter as the sitter. However, there is no record that Gainsborough ever painted Hunter, and this is not in his style. Likewise, the sitter's clothing here dates from about 1770, when Hunter was in his 50s, and this painting does not show a man of that age. It does show, half length, a gentleman in his thirties, facing right holding an anatomy book open at a picture of a skeleton. The artist and sitter remain the subject of research.

Charles Darwin

Art

1850-1882

Carte de visite photograph. Charles Darwin (1809–1882)

Josiah Wedgwood

Joshua Reynolds

1830-1839

Painting. [Josiah Wedgwood] (1730-1795) by Charles Sibley (fl. 1826-1847), nd. [183-]. Oil on canvas, 30x25"/76.5x63.5cm. Inscription printed indistinctly on verso of former frame: 'After the oil by Reynolds, 1782, now in the Wedgwood Museum, Barlaston'. Portrait, HS to L with dark background.

Oil painting, portrait of Paul Rapsey Hodge, 1850-1859

Goldsworthy

1850-1859

Painting, Paul Rapsey Hodge (1808-1870) / by Goldsworthy, 1850-1859. Oil on canvas; 52 x 39 cm, in gilt frame; 79 x 67cm, portrait, TQL seated to L beside table with microscope. Paul Rapsey Hodge an engineer and author, built first steam fire-engine in the US and increased understanding of metal fatigue.

Bromide print 4 3/4" x 6 3/4":- portrait of Cheval

Mathematics

Bromide print 4 3/4" x 6 3/4":- portrait of Chevalier Ch.X. Thomas, de Colmar

Portrait of Thomas Mudge (c.1715 – 1794)

Clockmakers

1770-1775

Portrait of Thomas Mudge (C.1715 – 1794) oil on canvas, after Nathaniel Dance, London c.1772.

Van Bene

Art

1860-1869

Carte de Visite photograph of Van Bene (?)

Carl von Siebold

Art

1850-1859

Carte de Visite photograph of Carl von Siebold.

Gustav Kirchhoff

Art

1860-1869

Carte de Visite photograph of G. Kirchoff.

Dominique Francois Jean Arago

Art

1868

Carte de Visite photograph of Arago.

August Hofmann

Art

1860-1869

Carte de Visite photograph of A.W. Hofmann.

Carte de Visite portrait of Japetus Steenstrup

Art

1862-1869

Carte de Visite photograph of Japetus Steenstrup by H. J. Whitlock of Birmingham (1862-69). Steenstrupe is shown seated half-length on a padded chair, wearing shirt, waistcoat, jacket and glasses, with hands clasped in his lap. Steenstrup was a Danish zoologist, biologist, and professor famous for naming and describing the giant squid 'Architeuthis dux' ('ruling squid') in 1857, previously famous in legend as the kraken: a terrifying sea monster that could pluck fishermen out of their boats.

John Tyndall

Art

1860-1869

Carte de Visite photograph of John Tyndall.

Carte de Visite photograph. Sir Charles Lyell. geo

Art

1870-1879

Carte de Visite photograph of Sir Charles Lyell. geologist.

Rudolf Virchow

Art

1880-1889

Carte de Visite photograph of R.Virchow.

Charles Mahon, 3rd Earl Stanhope

John Opie

1858

Painting. [Charles Mahon, 3rd Earl Stanhope 1753-1816] / [Charles Sibley]. - [1858]. - Oil on canvas, 76.5x63.5cm. - After a portrait by John Opie owned in 1858 by Lord Holland (Henry Edward Fox). - Portrait, HL to L

Edward Cowper

.Unattributed

1830-1852

Portrait photograph of Prof Edward Cowper (1790-1852), 5 1/2 inches by 4 inches, 12.7 x 10.15 cm

Photograph: Alexander Parkes' wife and family take

Art

1850-1853

Photograph: Alexander Parkes' wife and family taken at Pembrey, Pembrokeshire, Wales. portrait.

The Horologist, John Elcomb

Keith Holmes

1996-1999

Painting, oil on board. Ongoing no.2, by Keith Holmes, artist in residence at the Science Museum, 1994 to 1996. Completed 1999; retitled 'The Horologist, John Elcomb'. Oil on board; image 102x121cm in frame by artist, 107x125x3.5cm. Right hand panel of a triptych about the Science Museum; a portrait of conservation. The horologist (John Elcomb, Science Museum conservation team) stands TQL in infinity, wearing his white lab coat, wearing a watch maker's eyeglass over a lens of his spectacles; beside him, the brass spheres of the large orrery by Charles Butcher of Bedford, 1731-33 (Inv.1927-1618), its orb and dial a light source in the lower right corner; right, a small earth viewed from space

John Lindley

Art

1850-1865

Carte de visite photograph. John Lindley (1799–1865), botanist and horticulturist

Portrait of Sir William Herschel

Art

1785-1958

Portrait of Sir William Herschel (1738-1822), astronomer, at the age of 46. Original crayon copy of the oil painting by Lemual Francis Abbott in the National Portrait Gallery.