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			Creator		Phillips, Thomas, 1770 - 1845.
			Title		Sir Joseph Banks, ca.1808-9 / painted by Thomas Phillips
			Level of Description		Collection
			Date of Work		ca.1808-9
			Type of Material		Graphic Materials
			Call Number		DG 25
			Physical Description		Paintings : 1 oil Paintings, gilt framed, glass fronted ; 141 x 110 cm. inside frame measuring 178 x 146 cm.
			Source		Presented by Sir William Dixson, 1929


					Access only by appointment with Pictures staff
			General Note		Unsigned. Undated. Titled from frame label This portrait was purchased by William Dixson in 1929 from Capt. Knatchbull-Hugessen. It was painted to the order of Don Jose de Mendoza y Rios, a Spanish scholar and FRS, as a presentation to Banks. An engraving by Schiavonetti was made from this. After Lady Banks' death the portrait came into the possession of the Knatchbull-Hugessen family. A replica of the portrait was painted for Mendoza and by him bequeathed to the Royal Society. A copy of the portrait was made to the order of Capt. Knatchbull-Hugessen in 1929. Royal permission for dedication of the Schiavonetti engraving of this protrait was granted July 1809. In the engraving Banks is holding a paper on the back of which are the words "The Bakerian lecture for 1808 by Humphrey Davy, FRS". Source: ML cat cards Notes on this portrait and other portraits by Phillips are at Pxn 171, 173, 174 Photographic copy held at P2/57
			Name		Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743 - 1820
			Topic		botanists naturalists portraits
			Persons		Adult Males
			Exhibited in		Captain Cook, R. N., the resolute mariner: an international record of oceanic discovery Possessed : an exhibition of treasures
			Digital order no.		a051001