A clergyman. Oil painting.

Previous title, replaced May 2023 : A man. Oil painting.

Formerly designated as a portrait of the Hon. Robert Boyle. "In my view not Boyle. Does not look like any in Maddison Cat. Also none have Geneva bands. Looks like a divine": Professor Duncan Thorburn Burns, Department of Analytical Chemistry, The Queen's University of Belfast, in an e-mail to the Wellcome Library, 30 April 2001

He wears bands at the neck. The trompe l'oeil frame painted on the canvas is similar to the painted frame in a painting of Joseph Hall, satirist and bishop of Exeter and subsequently of Norwich (1574–1656), which is at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. The portrait of Hall is a copy of an earlier (1628) engraved portrait of him by John Payne (after an unknown painting or drawing), with the addition of the trompe loeil frame by the later copyist, who may be Mary Beale (1633-1699) or one of her contemporaries

1600-1699

1 painting : oil on canvas ; canvas 76 x 63.5 cm

Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/74/86

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. 201

Wellcome Collection 45549i