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Paintings and Engravings
Of many extant portraits, the earliest and most pleasing was executed about 1761; it has been photographed, but not engraved.
- I. Millar (1776?), with a companion picture of Mrs. Priestley
- The earliest engraving (1782) is from one of Wedgwood's medallions
- Ellen Sharples, probably after James Sharples. 1797 •••
- Peter Holland (painted at Birmingham)
- Fuseli (1783), one of the two portraits painted by Fuseli from life, engraved by C. Turner, 1836
- Opie, a front face, somewhat rugged
- John Hazlitt, uncle of the essayist
- William Artaud, engraved by T. Holloway, 1795
- James Sharples (1794- 1795
- Rembrandt Peale of New York
- C. W. Peale, engraved by Jacques Reich
- Gilbert Stewart, apparently posthumous' copied by Artaud (1812), and engraved by John Partridge in 1815, and by W. Holl in 1845 (“reckoned by his family the best likeness, but is wanting in strength”)
Sculpture
- P. Berni, plaster bust
- P. Rowe, profile in marble by in the memorial tablet, now in the Church of the Messiah, Birmingham
- E. B. Stephens, 1860 “in the new museum, Oxford”
- J. F. Wilkinson, 1874, Birmingham
Bibliography
P.J.H. [Hartog, Philip Joseph]. “Priestley, Joseph, LL.D. (1733-1804).” The Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. Sir Leslie Stephen and Sir Sidney Lee. 22 vols. London, H. Milford, 1921-22. 16.357-76. Hathi Trust Digital Library. Web. 25 September 2020.
Last modified 25 September 2020