John Hunter (1728-1793), surgeon and anatomist. Oil painting after Sir Joshua Reynolds.

1 painting : oil on paper ; paper 20.5 x 15 cm

An oil sketch by an unidentified hand, possibly made in connection with one of the engraved or painted copies of the portrait painted by Reynolds in 1786 and subsequently in the Royal College of Surgeons in London. In the same direction as the Reynolds painting, with Hunter on the viewer's left

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. 672

Wellcome Collection 45667i