Portrait of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1764) mb-width 1214 Upper Norwood

Upper Norwood

from St Paul's Cathedral to London Bridge

or the London Almanack for 1908

In pencil verso 'Bought 22

Portrait of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1764) mb-width 1214 Upper NorwoodHalf length portrait of Lavoisier, extracted or a detail from the Portrait of Antoine Laurent and Marie Anne Lavoisier by Jacques Louis David, 1788. Lavoisier is shown at a cloth covered table, in the act of writing with a quill pen. His posture is looking upwards to where (in the original) his wife stood; Marie Anne Lavoisier has been omitted from this portrait. Inscribed above : 'David pinxt. W. C. Sharpe. LAVOISIER. WILLIAM MACKENZIE GLASGOW