Title

Portrait of James Fern Webster, 1862. James Fern Webster was an engineer and prolific inventor who lived and worked in Solihull Lodge (West Midlands) in 1870-80. He developed a process for making the extraction of aluminium cost effective for the metal to be used in the manufacture of everyday objects.

Caption

Portrait of James Fern Webster, 1862. Creator: EH Bolt.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM21A28_239

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

54,1Mb (1,4Mb) / 12,7in x 16,5in / 3812 x 4960 (300dpi)

Keywords

England holding people male job man men sitting arts painting engineering engineer country science art guy occupation British letter museum English color location Victorian century gallery Britain profession personality Birmingham seated looking at camera one person art gallery inventor west midlands oil Painting Colour 19th century nineteenth century history metallurgist TGN Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery direct gaze portrait oil Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery Webster art centre Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery Birmingham Museums Trust Heritage Art EH Bolt Bolt EH E H Bolt James Fern Webster James Fern