Portrait of Michael Faraday is an 1842 portrait painting by the British artist Thomas Phillips depicting the English scientist Michael Faraday.

[1][2][3] Faraday was a leading physicist and chemist who began his career as an assistant to Humphry Davy.

Phillips was a noted portraitist of the Regency and early Victorian era.

He depicts Faraday with a trough battery of the sort he used in his electrical experiments while the furnace flames to the right are a reference to the scientist's metallurgical experiments.

Today it is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London, having been acquired in 1868.