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The sitter appears on an Italian-style balcony with a landscape background of hills and woodland. A door behind the sitter is partly hidden by green drapery. Burrow is seated on a high-backed green velvet-covered chair with a foreground marble-topped table. Volumes 1 and 2 of the Royal Society’s 'Philosophical Transactions' are on the table, bound in brown calf. The sitter’s elbow rests on the second of these and holds the first volume upright, spine facing the viewer.

Burrow is shown three-quarter length, wearing a shoulder-length wig. He has a red velvet coat with matching buttons and breeches. White shirt, neckcloth and stockings. The sitter has a turquoise waistcoat, richly embroidered or brocaded in gold.

The Royal Society

London

Title

James Burrow (1701–1782)

Date

c.1742

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 143 x W 119 cm

Accession number

RS.9240

Acquisition method

presented by the sitter, 1777

Work type

Painting

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