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| Title | A Surgeon Operating on a Patient's Scalp | |
| Collection | Royal College of Surgeons for England | |
| Artist | Dutch School Attributed to Adams, Richard (Dutch artist, b. ca. 1645) |
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| Date | 1677 (dated) | |
| Signed | yes | |
| Description | A surgeon is shown operating on a patient's scalp. The initials R.A. are believed to be those of Richard Adams, a seventeenth-century painter active in Amsterdam born about 1645. | |
| Current Accession Number | RCSSC/P 257 | |
| Inscription | front lr 'RA Fecit 1677'; front l 'Aet, 27' | |
| Subject | figure; still life; interior | |
| Measurements | 16.0 x 14.1 cm cm (estimate) | |
| Material | oil on metal (copper) | |
| Acquisition Details | Given by Jabez Hogg, MRCS 1895. | |
| Publications | LeFanu, W., A Catalogue of the Portraits and Other Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture in the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Edinburgh & London, 1960, cat. no. 257, p. 86; Benezit, Dictionary of Artists, vol. 1, Paris, 2006, p. 106. | |
| Notes | The inscription on the painting could refer to the age of the sitter but is more likely to be that of the artist himself at the time of creating the painting. Benezit records that Adams was born about 1645. | |
| Rights Owner | Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons | |
| Author | Dr Madeleine Korn | |