Dr Richard Russell, c1755

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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.
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Timeline / 1750s
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Royal Pavilion & Museums, Brighton & Hove
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CC BY-SA
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Dr Richard Russell, c1755
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Dr Richard Russell, FRS
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Benjamin Wilson
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c1755
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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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oil painting,PCF, Richard Russell,
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2.71 MB; 2480 x 3162 pixels; 210 x 268 mm (print at 300 DPI);
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