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    Credit: ©John W Mills
    Image number: RS.13613

    Sculpture bust of John Robert Vane

    Date
    1997
    Sitter
    John Robert Vane (1927 - 2004, British) , Pharmacologist
    Creator
    John W Mills (1933, British) , Sculptor
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (sculpture): 349mm
    width (sculpture): 226mm
    depth (sculpture): 280mm
    height (pedestal): 100mm
    width (pedestal): 150mm
    depth (pedestal): 150mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head of John Robert Vane. On a marble pedestal.

    Plaque on pedestal inscribed ‘Professor Sir John Vane DSc FRS On Loan From Vanguard Medica Group Plc.

    Sir John Robert Vane (1927-2004) was a British pharmacologist; he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1974 and served on the council as Vice President from 1985-1987.
    Object history
    Provenance: On loan from Vanguard Medica Group Plc, 1997.

    The portrait was originally commissioned for John Vane’s 70th Birthday.
    Associated place
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