Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (?). Oil painting.
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Traditionally designated as a portrait of Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, who professed anatomy at Leiden. The identification has yet to be verified. The face resembles that of Albinus as portrayed in prints, but the form of the wig and the costume do not
Physical description
1 painting : oil on canvas ; canvas 81.5 x 64.5 cm
Lettering
Books in the left background are inscribed with the names of Hippocrates and Galen
References note
Christopher Wright et al., British and Irish paintings in public collections, New Haven and London: Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2006, p. 500 (as related to the style of N. de Largillière, who worked for some years in England)
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Wellcome Collection 47326i
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