Regency Portraits Catalogue
Thomas Beddoes (1760-1808), Physician
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Physician, chemist and founder of the 'Pneumatic Institute' at Clifton; he married Maria Edgeworth's sister Anna, one of their children being the poet Thomas Lovell Beddoes.
'... one of the most original men I ever saw - uncommonly short and fat, with little elegance of manners and nothing characteristic externally of genius' (Memoirs of Sir Humphry Davy, pp 65-6).
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Walker, Regency Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, 1985, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.
'... one of the most original men I ever saw - uncommonly short and fat, with little elegance of manners and nothing characteristic externally of genius' (Memoirs of Sir Humphry Davy, pp 65-6).
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Walker, Regency Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, 1985, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.