Henry Robert Silvester. Oil painting by John Henry Sylvester, 1895.

  • Sylvester, J. H. (John Henry), 1830-1903.
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[1895]
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45804i
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Description

Consultant physician, inventor of the Silvester technique of artificial respiration. Depicted seated; in the background, on the left a Flemish tapestry showing a rural scene with a bagpiper, and on the right a richly carved bookcase

Publication/Creation

[1895]

Physical description

1 painting : oil on canvas ; canvas 127 x 102 cm

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Lettering

Acquired from previous owner as by an unidentified painter, and painted in 1895

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. 201

Reference

Wellcome Collection 45804i

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