The life school at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, with William Hunter, left, teaching anatomy. Drawing attributed to Elias Martin, ca. 1770.

[London], [1770?]

1 drawing : black chalk, pen and black ink, with grey wash ; sheet 45.9 x 32.2 cm

Attributed to Martin initially by comparison with his painting of the cast room at the Royal Academy of Arts, reproduced by Bignamini and Postle no. 6. His two watercolours in the Victoria and Albert Museum, one (signed and dated 1771) of a man, a woman and a child and the other of people watching boats on the Thames near Westminster Bridge, also provide support for the attribution. He was born in Stockholm, studied in Paris and at the Royal Academy schools in London, and later returned to Stockholm

I. Bignamini and M. Postle, The artist's model: its role in British art from Lely to Etty, Nottingham 1991, no. 6, pp. 26, 42-43

Wellcome Collection 44427i