File talk:John Hunter with skull attributed to Zoffany.jpg
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John Hunter / Percivall Pott
[edit]The BBC website [1] has this image with the caption that this is surgeon John Hunter, but that ID does not line up with other known portraits of John Hunter. IMO, it is a much better match with Percivall Pott. In the meantime, I am reverting this back to information regarding Percivall Pott. -- Deadstar (msg) 18:36, 18 August 2017 (UTC)
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Percivall Pott -
John Hunter
- After doing a bit of research, I reckon it is likely to be Hunter. Research was done into who painted it, the identity of the sitter was never a question.
- Here it says states that
- "The painting was described by the donor as a portrait of John Hunter by Thomas Gainsborough. However this attribution is suspect. Radiography revealed that the portrait is overpainted on a face which resembles several documented self-portraits of Johann Zoffany, a friend of John Hunter, and an attribution to Zoffany is not unlikely. Nathaniel Dance-Holland has also been suggested as a third possibility. See A Bury, 'Antiques Review 1953-1954', Vol. 2, No. 6, p.27."
- The skull in the image is a monkey skull, Hunter was known to have a large collection of animal specimen. No such information is available for Pott.
- Based on this, I'm renaming the image & changing info. -- Deadstar (msg) 08:21, 6 September 2017 (UTC)
