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Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles

1 of 4 portraits of Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles

by George Francis Joseph
oil on canvas, 1817
55 in. x 43 in. (1397 mm x 1092 mm)
Given by the sitter's nephew, W.C. Raffles Flint, 1859
Primary Collection
NPG 84

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Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles (1781-1826), Colonial governor and zoologist. Sitter in 4 portraits.

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George Francis Joseph (1764-1846), Portrait and subject painter. Artist associated with 23 portraits.

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This portrait was painted when Raffles returned to Britain to oversee the publication of his History of Java (1817). The Buddhist sculptures and the distant landscape allude to his study of the ethnography, ancient civilisation and languages of the region.