John Singer Sargent, R.A. (1856-1925)

Horatio P. Symonds was a distinguished British surgeon specializing in bacteriology and pathology who worked for many years at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford. The commission of this drawing was arranged via the great American surgeon Sir William Osler (1849-1919), who was also drawn by Sargent and appears in his great group portrait of the Four Doctors (John Hopkins University, Baltimore).

We are grateful to Richard Ormond for his help in preparing this catalogue entry.