Portrait of Gideon Mantell (1790-1852) Baylen and the shop of Ebenezer

and the shop of Ebenezer and James Clark

The First Lord of the Admiralty

(now Southwark Cathedral)

helping to establish the car's reputation for excellence

The horns of a cow which is being milked in the background appear over his head suggesting he is a cuckold

Portrait of Gideon Mantell (1790-1852) Baylen and the shop of EbenezerMantell is painted at half length in a black coat and waistcoat with a white shirt and high stock collar. He is clean shaven with long side whiskers. Behind, to the viewer's right, displayed on a cushion, are a large fossil and a smaller bone: apparently the thighbones of Iguandon and a modern iguana. Gideon Mantell was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1825. Original: oil on canvas, 762x635mm. 1837