Dr Haygarth
Summary
: K1030
: Fine Art
: drawing/watercolour
: Dr Haygarth
: SHARPLES, James Senior
: a framed colour drawing on grey paper, showing: a half-length portrait in profile of Dr John Haygarth (1740-1827), a physician who specialised in infectious diseases, most notably the treatment of fever in patients and the prevention of smallpox; his work was instrumental in reducing deaths by smallpox in Chester, where he had practised and lived from 1766; Haygarth moved from Chester to Bath in 1798, where he lived and worked until his death, and where this portrait was probably made; for an Ellen Sharples portrait of the sitter, see Mb801.100
Current Location
: [Book] Knox, Katharine M. 1930. The Sharples: their Portraits of George Washington and his Contemporaries. 1. 134.: [Book] Quick, Richard. 1910. Catalogue of the Sharples Collection of Pastel Portraits and Oil Paintings. 1. 32.
: Purchased, 1931