Credit: The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.1419

    Portrait of Francis Glisson

    Date
    1672
    Sitter
    Francis Glisson (1597 - 2014, British) , Physician
    Creator
    Walter Dolle (1647 - 1680) , Engraver
    After
    William Faithorne (1620 - 1691, British) , Painter
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    Dimensions
    height (print): 180mm
    width (print): 135mm
    Description
    Half-length portrait showing Francis Glisson within an oval frame, he wears a thick coat and a long curly wig. A coat of arms with three stars on a diagonal band is shown below the oval frame. After a painting by William Faithorne in the College of Physicians.

    Inscribed below: ‘W. Dolle delin et sculp/ Francisci Glissoni/Med: Dris: Effigies Ætat: sua 75’

    Francis Glisson (1597-1677), British physician and philosopher, was an original Fellow of the Royal Society, elected in 1663.
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