Sir William Paddy, physician to King James I. Oil painting, ca. 1900 (?), after M. Gheeraerts the younger.

On Sir William Paddy see Elizabeth Lane Furdell, The royal doctors, 1485-1714: medical personnel at the Tudor and Stuart courts, Rochester, New York: University of Rochester Press, ca. 2001. pp. 105-106

Rests right hand on book on table, book illustrated with engravings of the skull

[1900?]

1 painting : oil on wood ; wood 44 x 31.5 cm

William Paddy M.D. 1600 Aetatis suae 46

Wellcome Collection 582591i

After: a larger (210.8 x 129.5 cm) painting on wood in St John's College Oxford, attributed to Marcus Gheeraerts the younger; probably via an intermediary which would explain some of the variations in colour