Edmund Watson (1696-1774), physician at Stockport. Oil painting attributed to Hamlet Winstanley.

  • Winstanley, Hamlet, 1694-1756.
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[between 1700 and 1799]
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45857i
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Edmund Watson, physician and owner of a substantial library. Munk's Roll, loc. cit., names him as an M.D. of an unidentified university and admitted Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of London on 30 April 1733; practised at Stockport; "his library was sold at auction by Leacroft in 1776"

Publication/Creation

[between 1700 and 1799]

Physical description

1 painting : oil on canvas ; canvas 63 x 54 cm

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Label attached to stretcher: "Dr. Edmund Watson, 1696-1774 of Lyme, C[heshire?], Salford and Stockport. Buried in Stockport church. 4[th] son of Joe [i.e. Job?] Watson of Lyme, Cheshire, 1648-1753 [&] Elizabeth Hewytt who d. aged 94 niece of Joh. Hewytt D.D. beheaded by Cromwell". Possibly copied from a pencil inscription, now very indistinct, also on the stretcher

References note

Munk's roll of the Royal College of Physicians of London, London 1878, vol. II, p. 128 (biography of Watson)
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. 836

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Wellcome Collection 45857i

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