Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

George James Guthrie (1785-1856), Surgeon

Surgeon; served in the Peninsula, 1808-14; at Waterloo; performed several novel operations; surgeon to Westminster Hospital; professor of anatomy and surgery, 1828-3, and president of College of Surgeons, 1833, 1841, and 1854; published several works on surgery.


This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Ormond, Early Victorian Portraits, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1973, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.