The iconography of Benjamin Rush / [Samuel X. Radbill].

  • Radbill, Samuel X., 1901-1987.
Date:
1948
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Credit: The iconography of Benjamin Rush / [Samuel X. Radbill]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    manner, as was the American born William R. Jones, who reproduced it somewhere between 1810 and 1824 during the time he lived in Philadelphia. done by Thomas Sully when Rush was about 65 years of age. As a matter of fact, Sully painted a number of portraits of the great doctor. The first one was done for Dr. Dewees. Fig. 3. Small Colored Mezzotint (or Water Color) Portrait of Benjamin Rush; Artist not Known (Original in possession of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia) Another portrait of Rush was done by Jere¬ miah Paul. This was then engraved by J. Akin. A copy is at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Then there is an oil portrait at Princeton by J. T. Vinar, a profile evidently done fairly late in life. The most widely known and most frequently reproduced portrait of Benjamin Rush was It was begun April 3, 1809 and finished May 21. Sully listed it as a bust and charged $50.00 for it. The second was done for Dr. Hosack, and it is the one with head resting on hand, seated and seen to his knees. Of this portrait, Dr. Samuel Jackson, who knew Rush well at the time, declared it was a perfect likeness. It is the one most often reproduced by Sully,