Valentine Greatrakes. Oil painting after W. Faithorne.

  • Faithorne, William, 1616-1691.
Date:
[between 1800 and 1899?]
Reference:
45642i
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Valentine Greatrakes. Oil painting after W. Faithorne. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Greatrakes was renowned for curing the sick by stroking them with his hands. He is shown stroking the left eye and head of a sick boy. In the right background, an unrolled notice suspended on a wall, with rollers, replaces the scene shown in Faithorne's engraving: the notice is inscribed "Nathaniel [sic] Greatrakes Anno Domini 1668"

Publication/Creation

[between 1800 and 1899?]

Physical description

1 painting : oil on wood ; wood 29.5 x 21.5 cm

Lettering

Bears label on verso: "Probably early 19th cent. copy of line engraving by W. Faithorne"

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 45642i

Reproduction note

After: an engraving by William Faithorne published as a frontispiece to A brief account of Mr Valentine Greatrakes and divers of the strange cures by him lately performed, London 1666

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