William Thomson, Lord Kelvin (1824-1907), physicist. Oil painting by Harry Herman Salomon after a photograph.

1 painting : oil on canvas ; canvas 108 x 66.5 cm

Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/3/18

Commissioned by Henry S. Wellcome for his Gallery of Portraits, showing the personalities whose collections and writings were displayed in his exhibition galleries

Christopher Wright et al., British and Irish paintings in public collections, New Haven and London: Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2006, p. 701

Wellcome Collection 45704i