Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue
Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Bt (1792-1871), Mathematician and astronomer; son of William Herschel
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Astronomer; son of the astronomer, Sir William Herschel (1738-1822); fellow of St John's College, Cambridge; secretary and later president of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1824-32; discovered and catalogued many double stars and nebulae; described new graphical method of investigating stellar orbits; published several very important and influential books on astronomy; responsible for numerous discoveries and inventions.
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Ormond, Early Victorian Portraits, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1973, 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.
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Ormond, Early Victorian Portraits, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1973, 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.