A physician of Margate, Kent. Oil painting attributed to John Wollaston.

  • Wollaston, John, 1710-1775?
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45862i
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Description

Possibly John Anderson (1730-1804), physician to, and a director of, the General Sea-bathing Infirmary at Margate?

Physical description

1 painting : oil on canvas ; canvas 76 x 63 cm

Lettering

Wollaston Fils. pinxit Latin verses painted on canvas at top: "Clarus doctor erat Margati ad littoris undas, Insignis medicus hic et ubique fuit. Talis erat formâ, et dum vixit, talis amictu, Qualem speccanti picta tabella refert" (He was a famous doctor at the waters of the Margate shore, here and everywhere he was a notable physician. In his appearance was he such, and, while he lived, in his dress was he such as the painted picture recalls to the viewer)

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. 839

Reference

Wellcome Collection 45862i

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