Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774-1862) Size:L: 75 x 60cm only his second game in

only his second game in charge since his appointment

Overshot mill near Greenford

Davies Gilbert

This relates to Chamberlain's Merchant Shipping Bill which aimed to do away with the shipping owners who insured their unseaworthy buckets for vastly inflated sums

including a man with an advertising placard and another with a wheelbarrow

Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774-1862) Size:L: 75 x 60cm only his second game inThree quarter length portrait of J B Biot, seated and looking to camera. He is posed holding a book in his left hand, resting on his lap. His right arm rests on two books upon a small round table. Inscribed in pencil below: 'J B Biot aged 79 by Prof Regnault.' Jean Baptiste Biot was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1815. The pioneering photographer Henri Victor Regnault was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1852. Original: albumen