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Half-length portrait to the right of Bernard Siegfried Albinus (1697-1770), his right arm leaning on a plinth. Below the portrait are name and title in three lines in Latin. Albinus was a German professor of anatomy. His original surname was Weiss, but it was changed to its Latin form, as was common in academia at the time. He studied and taught at, among others, the University of Leiden. He was a student of Boerhave. Albinus was also twice appointed rector of the university. He lived at 29 Rapenburg. Copper engraving and etching by Jacob Houbraken (1698-1780), after the painting by Carel Isaak de Moor (1695-1751). Made around 1740. Signed in print. Source: Rijksmuseum, 2015.
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