Mid-Georgian Portraits Catalogue

Humphry Sibthorp (1713-1797), Botanist

Botanist, of Canwick Hall, Lincs.; as Sherardian Professor of Botany at Oxford from 1747 he delivered one indifferent public lecture; a correspondent of Linnaeus who dedicated to him the genus Sibthorpia; FRS 1788; his son John (see R. J. B. Walker National Portrait Gallery, Regency Portraits, 1985) was a more eminent botanist.


This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: John Ingamells, National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian Portraits 1760-1790, National Portrait Gallery, 2004, 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.