A Marble Bust of William Harvey (1578 - 1657)
at the Royal College of Physicians.
Commissioned and gifted to the Royal College by Richard Mead in 1739.
for an excellent and detailed tho' dated essay on the life of Dr Harvey
see G. Keynes, The Life of William Harvey (Oxford: Clarendon
Press,1978)
Dr Harvey travelled on the continent with the Earl of Arundel in 1636.
see also Brief Lives by his friend John Aubrey.
Photographed by the author.
I am very grateful to all the staff at the Royal College for allowing myself and Peter Hone to visit the college and to making our visit such a delight.
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Peter Scheemakers.
by Francis Hayman.
1739.
oil on canvas.
56 x 43 cms.
Depicting also the bust of Harvey and also showing him holding the engraving by Houbraken from Birch's Heads.
Also depicted is his head of Inigo Jones.
Purchased Sotheby's 2008
Royal College of Physicians
William Harvey MD.
by Daniel Mytens
Oil on Canvas
1627.
724 x 610 mm.
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Attributed to Cornelius Jansen.
Oil on Canvas.
Royal College of Physicians.
This portrait appears to have once been paired with a portrait of Lord Clarendon.
William Harvey.
After Cornelius Jansen.
Mezzotint perhaps by James Mc Ardell.
327 x 228 mm.
1765.
A later version of the mezzotint of 1794 attributes the portrait to van Dyck.
British Museum.
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Sir Charles Scarburgh (1624 - 1694)
attributed to Jean Demetrius.
134 x 104 cms approx.
A pupil of Harvey at Oxford and became his lifelong friend - an original founder member of the Royal Society first physician to Charles II.
Royal College of Physicians.
Dr William Harvey by Cornelius Jansen.
113 x 94 cms.
Formerly in the collection of Richard Meade.
Hunterian Museum, Glasgow.
Note -
They say -This portrait of Dr Harvey, the physician who discovered the
circulation of the blood, was in the collection of the Hunterian Museum's
founder and was regarded as one of the most important in Dr Hunter's Museum.
Harvey's head, taken from this painting, was engraved by Houbraken in 1739 for
Birch's Heads of Illustrious Persons, when the painting was in the possession
of the Royal Physician Dr Mead.
Houbraken attributed the painting (mistakenly,
it would seem) to the landscape painter Bemmel. The book held by Dr Harvey has
been identified by Mr Keynes as Adrianus Spigelius, Opera quae extant omnia
..., Amsterdam, 1645, tabula III, lib. II.
Harvey's expensive, formal velvet
gown was bequeathed to his colleague Sir Charles Scarburgh (1615-1694), of whom
the Royal College of Physicians owns a portrait very similar in execution to
this one.
The portraits are close in size and appear to form a pair of pendants
by one artist, each with a view of Rome in the background and with each
physician gesturing towards an anatomical book on a table.
In a letter dated
21/10/1991, Geoffrey Davenport, Librarian in the Royal College of Physicians,
suggests that book in Harvey's hands is the anatomy book of Juan Valverde de
Hamusco, his Vivae imagines partium corporis humani aereis formis expressae,
Antwerp, 1566, plate 2, book 2.
Hunter praised Harvey's discovery of the
circulation of the blood as one of the greatest advances in science, and he did
research into his life, borrowing papers from Harvey's family, including his
will. Hunter's manuscript notes are in Special Collections (MS H 51). They
incorporate a list of portraits, in oil and engraved, including Hunter's own
picture. Hunter's papers record that Nicholas Claude le Cat, chief surgeon at
l'Hotel Dieu, had a copy of this portrait made by Catherine Read, its present
location unknown.
Engraved by Houbraken of Amsterdam
British Museum.
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Engraving attributed to Richard Gaywood.
200 x 152 mm.
British Museum.
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Portrait of William Harvey.
Peter Lely.
c. 1675.
Oil on Canvas.
76.2 x 63.5 cms.
Given to the College by Lady Davies in 1967.
Royal College of Physicians.
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Another portrait of Dr William Harvey by Lely.
762 x 637 mm.
Given to the Royal Society by John Mapletoft in 1674.
Keynes notes the donor as being John Mappletoft and there is confirmation of the Society’s Journal Book record of a meeting of 27 February 1683/4: “Dr Mapletoft presented the Picture of Dr. Wm. Harvey; for which Mr. Hill was desired to return him the thanks of the Company” [Royal Society Journal Book Original, JBO/7 p.213].
It appears that there was once two portraits of Harvey at the Royal Society.
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Anonymous Portrait of Richard Meade.
depicting a relief of Harvey.
Royal College of Physicians.
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Bust by Edward Marshall in the Harvey Chapel.
Hempstead, Essex.
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Engraving by William Faithorne.
Frontispiece from the English translation of Excercitationes de Generatione Animalium, 1651.
135 x 90 mm.
British Museum.
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Engraving after the Faithorne engraving above
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Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
Another identical bust of Harvey.
at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
A 19th Century cast of Peter Scheemaker's bust of Harvey.
Supplied by P. Sarti in 1830.
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Bill from P. Sarti. to the Athenaeum.
The Committee of the Athenæum Club house.
Bought of P Sarti.
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are correct. C Daly £42. 2. 6
Casts Ordered for payment.
Sarti Building Committee.
Received 30 April of the Trustees of the
Athenæum the sum of Forty two pounds two
shillings and sixpence being the amount of
my Bill for Casts supplied to the New
Building to this time – £42. 2. 6
P. Sarti
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For a review of Keynes book on Harvey see -
for some further notes on Harvey see -
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