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Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Sir David Brewster (1781-1868), Natural philosopher and academic administrator

Portraits in Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue | Other NPG portraits

Sir David Brewster

by Sir John Watson-Gordon
1864
NPG 691

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