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Oil on canvas, 91.4 x 78.7 cm

Daniel Rutherford graduated from Edinburgh in 1772 and then travelled for three years. He started a practice in Edinburgh in 1775 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. He served…

Oil on canvas, 100 x 90 cm

Artist: Ian Hughes

Oil on canvas, 127 x 101.6 cm

Born in Simla, George Matthew Robertson was the son of Colonel John Robertson, CIE. He was educated at Madras College and St Andrews, graduating with a MB ChB from Edinburgh in 1855.

He was awarded an MD with a…

Oil on canvas, 73.6 x 53.3 cm

Douglas Argyll Robertson was born in Edinburgh, the son of John Argyll Robertson, MD, FRCSE, a surgeon at the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh. He graduated with an MD from St Andrews in 1857 and was appointed a Fellow…

Oil on canvas, 75 x 65 cm

Born in Yorkshire of Scottish parents, John Richmond was educated at Doncaster Grammar School and Edinburgh University where he graduated with an MB ChB in 1948, a date coinciding with the inauguration of the National…

Oil on canvas, 109.2 x 91.4 cm

Born in Glasgow and educated at the Royal High School in Edinburgh, Robert William Philip (1857–1939) graduated with a MB CM with honours from Edinburgh in 1882. Within five years of graduation, Robert Philip's…

Oil on canvas, 95 x 108 cm

Jim Petrie died shortly after demitting office as president of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and before the full potential of his professional work could be realised. A native of Aberdeenshire and a…

Oil on canvas, 44 x 33 cm

Alexander Peddie (1810–1907), the son of an Edinburgh minister, was educated at Edinburgh High School. He was encouraged to become a doctor by Dr John Abercrombie, Scotland's leading physician in the early nineteenth…

Oil on canvas, 110 x 90 cm

Robert Orde was the eldest son of John Orde, under-sheriff of Newcastle upon Tyne. He moved to Edinburgh and later engaged Robert Adam to design 8 Queen Street, one of the earliest houses in Edinburgh New Town.

His…

Oil on panel, 91 x 76 cm

Educated at Marlborough College and Edinburgh University where he graduated in 1947, Michael Oliver held junior hospital posts in Edinburgh before his appointment as consultant physician to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary in…