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Regency Portraits Catalogue

William Somerville (1771-1860), Physician

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William Somerville

by Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey
circa 1830
NPG 316a(112)

William Somerville

by Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey
circa 1830
NPG 316a(113)

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