Portrait of Michael Faraday (1791-1867) mb-height 3849 wife of Philip II of

wife of Philip II of Spain (1527-98)

The image was drawn from a stuffed specimen at Stuttgart

gas being piped from storage bellows to the projector for illumination of the microscope slides

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Portrait of Michael Faraday (1791-1867) mb-height 3849 wife of Philip II ofHalf length portrait of Michael Faraday. Looking to the viewer's right, his left hand and index finger extended, as if in the act of speaking or lecturing. Faraday is dressed in a black jacket and tie, with a white shirt. To the left of the painting as viewed is a glass tube with brass fittings containing electrodes and a spirit burner, intended to represent Faraday's work on electrolysis. Michael Faraday was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in