A man designated as James Blackbourne, surgeon. Oil painting, ca. 1900 (?).

James Blackbourne is named as a barber-surgeon in The annals of the barber-surgeons of London, ed. Sidney Young, London 1890, pp. 330-331, entries for January 1611. He is also described as a surgeon to the Queen's household in 1615: see Elizabeth Lane Furdell, The royal doctors, 1485-1714: medical personnel at the Tudor and Stuart courts, Rochester, New York: University of Rochester Press, ca. 2001, p. 113

Bust to left, long brown wig, wide lace collar. Vignettes in spandrels: hourglass, skull, still, surgical instruments

[1900?]

1 painting : oil on wood ; wood 36 x 30.5 cm

James Blackborne Doctor of physick Anno Domini 1630

Wellcome Collection 578658i