Hippocrates. Mezzotint by J. Faber after P. P. Rubens.

  • Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640.
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A bust, probably in Rubens's possession, which he also depicted in his portrait of Ludovicus Nonnius in the National Gallery, London--van der Meulen, loc. cit.

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Hippocrates Hiraclidae F. Cous. He grounded his precepts upon Aesculapius. He was by some stiled ye prince of physicians & by others honoured as a god and his works are to this day greatly esteem'd in most parts of Europe. He dyed at 104 years of age about 425 years before the birth of Christ. P. P. Rubens del. Ex marmore antiquo. I. Faber fecit.

References note

R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 1403.2
Marjon van der Meulen, Copies after the antique, Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard XXIII, London 1994, vol. II, no. 113, copy 2, pp. 127-128

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