James Manby Gully
(1808-1883), PhysicianSitter in 3 portraits
James Manby Gully was a celebrated Victorian hydrotherapist. Gully trained in medicine in Paris and then Edinburgh. His family fortune was tied up in the ownership of two plantations and many enslaved Africans in Jamaica. However, within the space of a year his father, mother and fiancée died and with them his inheritance from the plantations his father owned was gone. This forced Gully to move to London where he set up a successful practice treating William Tennyson and Charles Darwin among others.
by L. Perini
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
NPG Ax9701
James Manby Gully ('Men of the Day. No. 133.')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 5 August 1876
NPG D43756
by James Jacques Joseph Tissot, and Carlo Pellegrini, and Alfred Thompson (Atn), and Sir Leslie Ward, and Théobald Chartran ('T'), and Adriano Cecioni
chromolithographs pasted onto wooden panel, assembled from prints published 1869-1886
NPG D39296
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