A man formerly designated as Andreas Vesalius. Oil painting by John Graham Gilbert, 1840, after a Venetian painter.

Date:
1840
Reference:
45842i
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A copy made by Graham Gilbert from a painting in the Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, at present (2014) attributed to Paris Bordone, which William Hunter acquired as a portrait of Vesalius

Publication/Creation

1840.

Physical description

1 painting : oil on canvas ; canvas 61 x 51 cm

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Related material

Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/59/69

Lettering

Copied by Mr Gilbert Graham from a portrait of Vesalius, supposed to be painted by Titian and in the collection of Dr Hunter of at [sic] Glasgow 1840

References note

M.H. Spielmann, The iconography of Andreas Vesalius (André Vésale) anatomist and physician, 1514-1564, London: John Bale, Sons & Danielsson, Ltd., 1925, p44 and pl. XII
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. 374

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Wellcome Collection 45842i

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