Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.9529
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Portrait of Jacob de Castro-Sarmento
Date
1737
Sitter
Jacob de Castro-Sarmento (1692 - 1762, Portuguese) , Physician
Creator
Andrew Miller, Engraver
Object type
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 202mm
width (print): 137mm
width (print): 137mm
Subject
Description
Half length portrait of Sarmeto, wearing a shoulder length wig and holding a book with his left hand, spine forward, with the label “NEW”. A ring is shown prominently on the little finger of this hand. A book case, half hidden by a curtain or drape, is seen behind. .
Inscribed: “H.Stevens Pinxt. 1729 Andrw. Miller fecit, 1737. Dr. Jacob de Castro Sarmento, do Real Collegio dos Medicos de Londres, e Socio da R.S. Aetat. Suae, 45. 1737.” Inscribed in pencil lower left “1729”.
Jacob de Castro Sarmento was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1729.
Inscribed: “H.Stevens Pinxt. 1729 Andrw. Miller fecit, 1737. Dr. Jacob de Castro Sarmento, do Real Collegio dos Medicos de Londres, e Socio da R.S. Aetat. Suae, 45. 1737.” Inscribed in pencil lower left “1729”.
Jacob de Castro Sarmento was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1729.
Object history
Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.73. J.P.Gassiot Collection, purchased 1878.
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