Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774-1862) Size:M: 75 x 60cm 9th August 1969

9th August 1969

232 cars had been built

with the King's herb women and maids at the back of the line through the various titles and positions to the King and his attendants at the front

or a New Idol for the Ragamuffins'

or the R[oya]l visit postponed'

Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774-1862) Size:M: 75 x 60cm 9th August 1969Three 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