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2025 people matching these criteria:

- role matching 'sitter'
- profession 'Medicine'

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

1836-1917
Physician
Sitter in 7 portraits

Edith Cavell

1865-1915
Nurse
Sitter in 6 portraits

Sir Ernst Chain

1906-1979
Biochemist
Sitter in 8 portraits

Erasmus Darwin

1731-1802
Physician and poet
Sitter in 8 portraits

Sir Alexander Fleming

1881-1955
Bacteriologist and discoverer of penicillin
Sitter in 22 portraits

Sigmund Freud

1856-1939
Psychologist and writer
Sitter in 1 portrait

William Gilbert ('W.G') Grace

1848-1915
Cricketer and medical practitioner
Sitter in 8 portraits

William Harvey

1578-1657
Physician, discovered the circulation of the blood
Sitter in 19 portraits

Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin

1910-1994
Chemist and crystallographer; Nobel Prize winner; wife of Thomas Lionel Hodgkin
Sitter in 17 portraits

John Hunter

1728-1793
Surgeon and anatomist
Sitter in 13 portraits

William Hunter

1718-1783
Anatomist and physician; obstetrician and physician to Queen Charlotte
Sitter associated with 6 portraits

Edward Jenner

1749-1823
Surgeon; discoverer of vaccination
Sitter in 11 portraits

Joseph Lister, Baron Lister

1827-1912
Surgeon and founder of a system of antiseptic surgery
Sitter in 16 portraits

Sir Jonathan Wolfe Miller

1934-
Physician, theatre and opera director, and television presenter
Sitter in 29 portraits

Florence Nightingale

1820-1910
Reformer of hospital nursing and of the Army Medical Services
Sitter associated with 36 portraits

Mary Jane Seacole (née Grant)

1805-1881
Nurse, adventurer and writer
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Hans Sloane, Bt

1660-1753
Physician and collector
Sitter in 8 portraits

Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes

1880-1958
Palaeobotanist and pioneer and advocate of birth control
Sitter in 10 portraits

George Stubbs

1724-1806
Painter and anatomist
Sitter in 9 portraits | Artist associated with 6 portraits

Arthur Lawrence Abel

1895-1978
Consulting surgeon
Sitter in 2 portraits