Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

John Wood (1825-1891), Surgeon

Surgeon; MB, London, 1848; surgeon at King's College Hospital, London; professor of surgery there, 1871; joint-lecturer with Lister on clinical surgery, 1877; vice-president of the Royal College of Surgeons, 1885; Hunterian professor, 1884-5; published various 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.