Portrait of Joseph Banks and Daniel Charles Solander

Head and shoulders portrait of Joseph Banks in left profile and Daniel Charles Solander in right profile, facing each other. In oval frames on pedestals.

Inscribed ‘JOSPH. BANKS Esqr. Dr SOLANDER’ and pencilled ‘1764’.

Daniel Charles Solander was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1764.

Sir Joseph Banks was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1766 and was President from 1778 until 1820.

Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.75