Dr Richard Russell, FRS. Russell sits in half right profile, right hand on hip beside a brown canopy. His left knee appears in the lower right corner. He wears a grey wig, grey coat with golden buttons and white cuffs and stock. By his left sleeve is his book, open at the title page.
This is a portrait of Dr Richard Russell who made Brighton famous in the seventeenth century with his 'seawater cure'; this included bathing in the sea for medicinal purposes and drinking pints of seawater in prescribed doses. In this picture Russell sits in half right profile, he wears a grey wig, a grey coat with gold buttons and white cuffs. He has a book open next to his left hand.
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