Artist | Colvin Smith (Scottish b.1795, d.1875) |
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Title | Daniel Ellis |
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Description | Half length portrait of Ellis who is shown seated in full face; his right hand clasps a book, his left rests on his knee. He wears a black coat and white choker. The background is reddish-brown. This was probably the picture that was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1841.
In 1806-1807, he was elected President of the Royal Medical Society. Keenly in botnay, he spent his last years in a house near the Botanical Garden. He died in Edinburgh in 1841.
Ellis made some interesting contributions to the literature of science. Coal-gas works occupied his attention for some time. The subject which interested him most was vegetable anatomy and vegetable physiology.
Daniel Eliis bequeathed £500 to the Principal and Faculty of Medicine of the University with which to found a prize to be awarded every third or fifth year, in the form of a gold medal, to a studnet of medicine for the best essay or treatise on a subject of animal or vegetable physiology, a 'most important branch of Science'. |
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Material | canvas (textile material)/textile materials/materials (substances); oil paint (paint)/paint (coating) |
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Dimensions | 114.3 x 88.9 cm |
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Subject | M.D. F.R.S.E. Daniel Ellis (b.1772, d.1841) |
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Collection | Art Collection |
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Classification | oil paintings (visual works); portrait; paintings 1600-1800; paintings 1801-1900 |
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Accession Number | EU0055 |