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Portrait of JOHN WALLIS DD 1616-1703 #1805337

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Portrait of JOHN WALLIS DD 1616-1703 #1805337
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Portrait of JOHN WALLIS DD 1616-1703 by Sir Godfrey Kneller 1646-1723</em></td>
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There is a full-length portrait By Sir Godfrey Keller that hangs in the Oxford Examination Schools, Oxford University; this one was commissioned from Kneller, and paid for by Samuel Pepys, and given to the University. This would imply that this portrait is either the original or a "Version".

John Wallis, DD, was born at Ashford, in the county of Kent, in (1616). His father was minister there. He went to school there.

He was admitted at Emmanuel College in Cambridge; 'where he was a pupil, then a fellow of King's College at the same place' (Mr Oughtred's preface to his Key to Mathematics). He was a good student, but fell not to the study of mathematics until he was above twenty.

A remarkable passage of his life was, that he was a witness of W. Laud's (archbishop of Canterbury) trial, for his introducing popish innovations into the University of Cambridge. The first remarkable passage of his life was his deciphering the letters of King Charles I taken at Naseby, which book is called the King's Cabinet Opened. He was scholar to Mr W. Oughtred.

In 1649 after the visitation by the parliament, [commissioners were sent to remove royalist or high church sympathisers from the Universities] he came to Oxford, and was made Savillian Professor of Geometry. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society. Great contests between him and Mr Thomas Hobbes, of Malmesbury: sure their Mercuries are in square or opposition. In 1657, he got himself to be chosen by unjust means to be keeper of the archives ...
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<tr><td>Condition:Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:18th Century</td></tr>
<tr><td>Country:UK</td></tr>
<tr><td>Maker:Sir Godfrey Kneller 1646-1723</td></tr>
<tr><td>Height:46.6</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:41</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:Portrait of JOHN WALLIS DD 1616-1703</td></tr>
<tr><td>Style:Traditional</td></tr>
<tr><td>Materials:Oil on Canvas</td></tr>
<tr><td>Type:Oil on Canvas</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location:london uk</td></tr>
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