Regency Portraits Catalogue
Edward Jenner (1749-1823), Surgeon; discoverer of vaccination
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Discoverer of vaccination against smallpox.
'He was dressed in a blue coat and yellow buttons, buckskins, well-polished jockey boots with handsome silver spurs, and he carried a smart whip with a silver handle. His hair, after the fashion of the times, was done up in a club and he wore a broad-brimmed hat' (John Baron, Life of Edward Jenner, 1838, I, pp 15-16).
'It will never do for me to go to the pencil now, for if my countenance represents my mind, it must be beyond anything dismal' (letter to C. J. Moore 26 February 1810, John Baron, Life of Edward Jenner, 1838, II, p 366).
'He was dressed in a blue coat and yellow buttons, buckskins, well-polished jockey boots with handsome silver spurs, and he carried a smart whip with a silver handle. His hair, after the fashion of the times, was done up in a club and he wore a broad-brimmed hat' (John Baron, Life of Edward Jenner, 1838, I, pp 15-16).
'It will never do for me to go to the pencil now, for if my countenance represents my mind, it must be beyond anything dismal' (letter to C. J. Moore 26 February 1810, John Baron, Life of Edward Jenner, 1838, II, p 366).
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Baron 1838John Baron, Life of Edward Jenner, 2 vols., 1838.
Centenary article on Jenner in the Illustrated London News, 27 January 1923, pp 122-3.
LeFanu 1951
W. R. LeFanu, A Bio-Bibliography of Edward Jenner, 1951.
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Walker, Regency Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, 1985, 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.