Portrait of Robert Boyle

Three quarter length portrait, seated, the sitter’s body turned to the viewer’s left. Robert Boyle wears a long curled wig with brown robe over brown coat and stockings, with a white shirt and lace neck-cloth. His left hand indicates a book, held upright by the spine in his right hand. Drapery behind and to the right as viewed, with a landscape visible to the left. Robert Boyle was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1660, he was a founder of the Society.