1 OF 11

Edward Jenner

1 of 11 portraits of Edward Jenner

Edward Jenner

by James Northcote
oil on canvas, 1803
50 in. x 40 in. (1270 mm x 1016 mm)
Given by the sitter's friend, James Moore (later Carrick-Moore), 1859
Primary Collection
NPG 62

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Edward Jenner (1749-1823), Discoverer of vaccination. Sitter in 11 portraits.

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James Northcote (1746-1831), Painter; pupil and biographer of Sir Joshua Reynolds. Artist associated with 103 portraits, Sitter associated with 23 portraits.

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The background of this painting was not finished until after Jenner's death in 1823 when Northcote wrote: 'on a table in the picture I have introduced the bones and joints of a Cows hoof and in a glass case the Cows hoof injected, all which is to show what were his peculiar Studies'.

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Audio Guide
Cooper, John, Visitor's Guide, 2000, p. 65
Hackmann, W.D., Apples and Atoms: Portraits of Scientists from Newton to Rutherford, 1986, p. 38
Hart-Davis, Adam, Chain Reactions, 2000, p. 85
Holmes, Richard; Crane, David; Woof, Robert; Hebron, Stephen, Romantics and Revolutionaries: Regency portraits from the National Portrait Gallery, 2002, p. 149
Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 336
Walker, Richard, Regency Portraits, 1985, p. 280