Portrait of an Unknown Gentleman (Previously Identified as Nevil Maskelyne, Astronomer Royal 1732-1811) Frame:White then later replaced during post-processing

then later replaced during post-processing with the more naturally coloured stars from the RGB (red

and position of the photographer all combined to create a captivating

The canvas shows a view up the Medway as seen from Chatham towards Rochester and taken from a high vantage point

It's fascinating to think that the historic site of Stonehenge did not exist when the Comet NEOWISE last passed the Earth

Portrait of an Unknown Gentleman (Previously Identified as Nevil Maskelyne, Astronomer Royal 1732-1811) Frame:White then later replaced during post-processingAlthough acquired as a portrait of Nevil Maskelyne, fifth Astronomer Royal at Greenwich (1765 1811), the late Derek Howse, former Head of Astronomy at NMM and Maskelyne's biographer, firmly believed that this portrait is misidentified on the basis of its great dissimilarity to Louis van der Puyl's undoubted Maskelyne portrait of 1785 owned by the Royal Society. Van der Puyl shows him in clerical dress (black with bands) appropriate to his formal