Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774-1862) Size:L: 75 x 60cm This relates to Chamberlain's Merchant

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

The figures show microscopic views of the fibres in a section of elm

The car from the film of the same name

Davies Gilbert

Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774-1862) Size:L: 75 x 60cm This relates to Chamberlain's MerchantThree 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