Dr. Allan Jensen recently shared an article from the University of Rochester's Review Magazine. It was from the "Ask the Archivist" columnist about a painting in their collection, one Azariah Boody. What struck me was that MedChi has two portraits by the same artist... John Dabour.
Our two paintings are Dr. John Hawkins Patterson
and Dr. Charles Frick.
Unlike the painting at Rochester, which is a pastel over a photograph, ours both appear to be paintings on their own.
While there are pages of biographical and laudatory information, as well as a good biography on Charles Frick
in the Medical Annals of Maryland Medicine, there is scant mention of John Patterson, who barely gets four lines!
Most of the information we have on Dr. Patterson comes from an article in the Maryland Medical Journal about the presentation of this painting to the Faculty by his daughter in 1907.
In this piece, it is mentioned that the painting is by "well-known artist, J. Dabour."
While there are pages of biographical and laudatory information, as well as a good biography on Charles Frick
Most of the information we have on Dr. Patterson comes from an article in the Maryland Medical Journal about the presentation of this painting to the Faculty by his daughter in 1907.
In this piece, it is mentioned that the painting is by "well-known artist, J. Dabour."
Hello Meg, There used to be "well-known portraitists" and also many fine portraits have entered the ranks of great art. Then there were merely photographers who took formal portraits, but now even these are few and in-between. In the future, we may well be limited to snapshots uploaded to websites and stills from security cameras.
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Hello, we also have a portrait of Dr Patterson. His portrait had always been in our home my father being Wm Presbury Patterson, b Aug 22 1916 d. March 9 2018. Dr J H Patterson was my fathers grandfather. My parents named my oldest brother, John Hawkins Patterson.
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