Sir Oscar Clayton
(1816-1892), Surgeon and socialiteLater Victorian Portraits Catalogue Entry
Sitter in 2 portraits
Educated at University College, London and Middlesex Hospital, Clayton became surgeon of Metropolitan Police. From 1868 he was surgeon in ordinary to the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Edinburgh.
by Carlo Pellegrini
watercolour, published in Vanity Fair 12 September 1874
NPG 3265
Sir Oscar Clayton ('Men of the Day. No 87. "Fashionable surgery."')
by Carlo Pellegrini
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 12 September 1874
NPG D43657
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