Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774-1862) Size:M: 75 x 60cm Interior view of St Bartholomew-by-the-Exchange

Interior view of St Bartholomew-by-the-Exchange

or a New Idol for the Ragamuffins'

with a surround

9th August 1969

Roy Patrick

Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774-1862) Size:M: 75 x 60cm Interior view of St Bartholomew-by-the-ExchangeThree quarter length portrait of J B Biot, seated and looking to camera. He is posed holding a book in his left hand, resting on his lap. His right arm rests on two books upon a small round table. Inscribed in pencil below: 'J B Biot aged 79 by Prof Regnault.' Jean Baptiste Biot was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1815. The pioneering photographer Henri Victor Regnault was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1852. Original: albumen