Jan Lutma the elder, designated as Galen. Mezzotint by J. Faber the elder, 17--, after J. Lutma the younger.

According to Chaloner Smith, loc. cit., possibly a bust of Solon published by Thomas Bowles later republished by John Bowles as a bust of Galen; mentioned as Galen in John Bowles's catalogue of 1768

Bust in niche. Bust directed to left, but depicted as if (though stone) it has turned to the front to face the viewer

[London] (next the Chapter House in St Paul's Church yard) : Printed and sold by Tho. Bowles ; [London] (at the Black Horse in Cornhill) : John Bowles, [1768?]

1 print : mezzotint ; platemark 35.5 x 25.3 cm

Galen. A most excellent physitian ... and is numbered by Carden, among ye 12 most subtil wits of ye world. He was of a weak and crazy constitution, yet, by temperance preserved his life to great age. He died about the middle of the second century. P.P. Rubens del. Ex marmore antiquo. J. Faber senr. fecit.

According to the lettering, by John Faber after Rubens. Faber executed seven mezzotint portrait busts of ancients after Rubens: Cicero, Democritus, Demosthenes, Hippocrates, Plato, Seneca, and Socrates (van der Meulen, op. cit.). Apparently unable to find a Rubens portrait of Galen, he or his publisher surreptitiously used as their model an etching by Jan Lutma the younger of his father, and attributed it to Rubens

J. Chaloner Smith, British mezzotinto portraits, vol. 1, London 1883, pp. 267-268, no. 2

R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 1069.1

Not found in: Marjon van der Meulen, Copies after the antique, Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard XXIII, London 1994, vol. II

After: an etching by Jan Lutma the younger, portraying his father, the smith Jan Lutma the elder, represented as a sculpted bust or herm