An operator pulling a tooth; representing the sense of touch. Pen and ink drawing by P. Boone, 1649.

1649

1 drawing : pen and brown ink on vellum

P. Boone. A.o 1649

Wellcome Collection 26938i

P. Boone may be "possibly the father of the Flemish painter Daniel Boone, who worked in the manner of Craesbeeck" (Sotheby's catalogue for Old Master Drawings sale, London, 30 March 1987). Daniel Boone (or Boon) was born in Burgerhout, near Antwerp, c. 1632, according to Wilenski, 'Flemish painters'. Wilenski also mentions a "P. van Boons", a presumably Flemish painter whose signature appears on a painting dated 1627 in the Harrach collection, Vienna, showing a picture gallery with a cavalier examining a picture of the Virgin. At any rate, whoever P. Boone may have been, he was probably not the originator of this and a companion drawing (of a man vomiting). These compositions, with added figures and background, were later engraved from drawings which presumably ante-dated Boone's drawings, the latter being presumably copies. One of the engravings was executed by Carel Allard (1648-1706), and another by Johann Daniel Herz of Augsburg (the elder, 1693-1754, or the younger, 1720-1793). These prints, it is said, carry an attribution of the composition to Adriaen Brouwer, although the monogram 'AB' may also relate to Andries Both, which is more likely: for one of them see Wellcome Library no. 26299i