M0011445: Portrait of an unidentified man, 18th century

Previous title, replaced April 2021: Unidentifued portrait; John Hunter (?)

Portrait of an unidentified man, painted c.1730. The portrait was the property of Gravesend & North Kent Hospital who in 1950 asked the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum to investigate the sitter and artist. The Museum could not identify either but concluded the sitter was not John Hunter as the hospital thought.

1950

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds an archive file providing more details about the museum's investigation: WA/HMM/CO/Chr/J.67.

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.