Albert Nachet, microscopist. Oil painting by Harry Herman Salomon after a photograph.

  • Salomon, Harry Herman, 1860-1936.
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45760i
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A member of the distinguished family of microscope manufacturers founded in Paris in 1839 by Camille-Sébastien Nachet (1799-1881) and continued by his son Jean-Alfred Nachet (1831-1908). Albert Nachet was also a scholar of the history of microscopy and a collector of historic microscopes

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1 painting : oil on canvas ; canvas 107 x 76 cm

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References note

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

Reference

Wellcome Collection 45760i

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

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