Portrait of Edmond Halley (1656-1742) Size:S: 30 x 25cm Original: red chalk on paper

Original: red chalk on paper

View of Clare Market at the back of Portugal Row

View of Blackfriars Bridge from the Surrey shore

Barking is now in the London borough of Barking

Portrait of Edmond Halley (1656-1742) Size:S: 30 x 25cm Original: red chalk on paperEdmond Halley as a relatively young man, apparently in his thirties. The sitter is shown at half length with long, dark naturally styled hair and has blue eyes. He is dressed in a loose brown robe with wide sleeves over a white shirt worn open at the neck. In his left hand he holds a sheet of paper upon which is drawn a diagram of an elliptical orbit. Edmond Halley was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1678. Original: oil on canvas, 765x639mm.