Portrait of Thomas Haselden (d.1740) gullibility Earlier during the year

Earlier during the year

The event is taken from St John's Gospel

apparently in the President's Office of the Royal Society at Carlton House Terrace

Cornhill and Lombard Street

Portrait of Thomas Haselden (d.1740) gullibility Earlier during the yearHead and shoulders portrait, oval, Haselden wearing a shoulder length wig, with a loose gown over a buttoned coat or waistcoat and a white neck cloth. A coat of arms appears below the main image. Inscribed: 'Thomas Haselden, F. R. S, Head Master of the Royal Academy at Portsmouth. T Frye pinxt. 1735. J. Faber fecit, 1740.' In pencil lower left '1739'; lower right '2 6'. Thomas Haselden was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1739. Original: