Portrait of Thomas Young (1773-1829) Size:L: 80 x 60cm 12th January 1973

12th January 1973

Showing men performing various exercises including parallel bars and tug of war

17th February 1969

Napoleon's main aim was to secure his office for his son and he therefore issued a proclamation in support of the plebiscitum which asked that the public extend to his son the almost unanimous support he had himself enjoyed and which had previously conferred upon him the most extensive powers

Portrait of Thomas Young (1773-1829) Size:L: 80 x 60cm 12th January 1973A half length seated portrait of a greying Thomas Young, wearing a black coat and high white stock. The sitter holds spectacles or a magnifying glass in his right hand and wears spectacles hanging from a black ribbon. The background is a red cloth or draped hanging. Thomas Young was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1794. Original: oil on canvas, 920x715mm. ca. 1822