Sir Thomas Browne
(1605-1682), Physician; author of 'Religio Medici' and 'Urn Burial'Early Stuart Portraits Catalogue Entry
Sitter in 10 portraits
This meditative Norwich physician was the author of Religio Medici [A Doctor's Religion], 1642, a work of 'curious learning', poetic language and profound melancholy, which gained a European reputation. His Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Enquiries into Vulgar Errors appeared in 1646; the archaeological Urn Burial and mystical Garden of Cyrus in 1658. He affirmed his belief in witchcraft at a witch trial at Bury St Edmunds in 1664.
Dorothy, Lady Browne (née Mileham); Sir Thomas Browne
attributed to Joan Carlile
oil on panel, circa 1641-1650
NPG 2062
after Robert White
plumbago on vellum, late 17th century
NPG 1969
by Unknown artist
line engraving, published 1669
NPG D27273
by Unknown artist
line engraving, published 1669
NPG D19790
by Frederick Hendrik van Hove
line engraving, published 1672
NPG D30050
by Peter Vanderbank (Vandrebanc)
line engraving, published 1683
NPG D30051
by Peter Vanderbank (Vandrebanc)
line engraving, published 1683
NPG D19702
by Robert White
line engraving, published 1686
NPG D23495
by Robert White
line engraving, published 1686
NPG D30052
by Thomas Trotter, published by William Richardson
line engraving, published 1 March 1798
NPG D30049
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