Regency Portraits Catalogue

Henry Kater (1777-1835), Scientist

Surveyor, map-maker and inventor of measuring instruments; elected FRS 1815 and Copley gold medalist 1817; Captain in 62nd Infantry Regiment.


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.