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Images from the collections

Images of Portrait paintings

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  • A man. Oil painting.
  • A male dwarf. Watercolour painting.
  • An Indian lady standing next to a tree and praying. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • A man once designated as Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564), anatomist. Oil painting by a follower of a Venetian painter, 16th century.
  • A Sikh Maharaja or nobleman holding a blue sword. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • Sir George Ent. Oil painting.
  • Christopher Wren making his first demonstration of a method of introducing drugs into a vein, before Dr Willis, 1667
  • John Hunter (1728-1793), surgeon and anatomist. Oil painting after Sir Joshua Reynolds.
  • Leprosy: nodules on an Indian woman's face: a head and shoulders portrait in profile. Watercolour by E. Schwarz, 1920/1950 (?).
  • Sultan Abdullah Qutb Shah of Golconda. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
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Works from the collections

837 works

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    An Indian lady looking at herself in a mirror. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.

    | Date: [between 1800 and 1899?] | Reference: 575153i
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    A man designated as "John Sutherland", head and shoulders, wearing a red military jacket. Gouache.

    | Reference: 568283i
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    A Mughal empress or member of the royal family holding a small cup and a jug. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.

    | Date: [between 1800 and 1899?] | Reference: 579313i
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    A man designated as John Cheyne, physician. Oil painting, ca. 1900(?).

    | Date: [1900?] | Reference: 578676i
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    P.A. Foico (?). Oil painting.

    | Reference: 45625i
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