2024
DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/592yf
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Has a 'lost' portrait of the polymath Robert Hooke (1635-1703) been in London's National Portrait Gallery since 1872?

CHRISTOPHER A. WHITTAKER

Abstract: No uncontested portrait of the polymath scientist Robert Hooke MA, MD, FRS (1635-1703) has been identified. However, new evidence is presented here that a painting in London’s National Portrait Gallery of an unknown man, formerly known as Isaac Barrow (NPG338) may be a ‘lost’ portrait of Hooke. The work has been hiding in plain sight since it was bought by the Gallery’s Trustees in 1872 from the estate of the ‘father of computing’ Charles Babbage KH, FRS (1791-1871). Robert Hooke had very distinctive features … Show more

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