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Regency Portraits Catalogue

Sir John Leslie (1766-1832), Scientist and mathematician

Portraits in Regency Portraits Catalogue | Other NPG portraits

Sir John Leslie

by Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey
1815
NPG 316a(64a)

Men of Science Living in 1807-8

by Sir John Gilbert, and Frederick John Skill, and William Walker, and Elizabeth Walker (née Reynolds)
1858-1862
NPG 1075

Engraving after 'Men of Science Living in 1807-8'

by George Zobel, and William Walker
1862
NPG 1075a

Key to engraving after 'Men of Science Living in 1807-8'

by William Walker
1862
NPG 1075b

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