Rudoph Lehmann pinx. Swan Electric Engraving Co.
[n.d., c.1883.]
Photogravure. 220 x 170mm (8½ x 6¾"), very large margins with a sheet of letterpress biography. Slight foxing.
Half-length portrait of Sir Charles William Siemens (originally Karl Wilhelm, 1823-83), electrical engineer and entrepreneur. Godalming in Surrey had the world's first street lighting, powered by a Siemens AC Alternator driven by a watermill. Rudolf Lehmann's oil, painted in 1882, in in the National Portrait Gallery.
NPG 2632.
[Ref: 43389]  £75.00