Henry William Pickersgill to Faraday   1 April 18581

14 Stratford Place | 1 April 1858.

To my old & much esteemed friend Ml. Faraday D.C.L. FRS. | &c &c &c

I address this Letter to you as the Head of the Royal Institution of Gt. Britain for the purpose of enabling the Managers in case of any thing happening to me before the return of the Pictures from the Exhibition at the Royal Academy to claim as their Property my Picture of the Revd. John Barlow2 which I hope they will accept as a slight testimony in consideration for the great priviledge [sic] I have long enjoyed through their liberality3.

I have the honor to be | My dear Dr. | Ever yours faithfully | H.W. Pickersgill

PS The Picture can be seen any time before the 6 Inst.

1
Henry William Pickersgill (1782-1875, ODNB). Portrait painter.
2
This portrait of Barlow was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1858. See Graves (1905-6), 6: 147.
3
For the background to this presentation see Prescott (2002), 65-6. This letter was read to the Managers. RI MM, 5 April 1858, 11: 227.

Bibliography

GRAVES, Algernon (1905-6): The Royal Academy of Arts: A Complete Dictionary of Contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904, 8 volumes, London.

PRESCOTT, Gertrude M. (2002): “Forging Idenity: The Royal Institution’s Visual Collections”, in James (2002a), 59-96.

Please cite as “Faraday3411,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday3411