Isaac Henrique Sequeira (1738-1816) was a Portuguese Sephardic Jewish doctor.[1]
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Early life edit
Sequeira was born in Lisbon,[2] and educated at Bordeaux and Leiden.[3]
Career edit
Sequeira served as physician extraordinary to the Portuguese Embassy at the Court of St James's in London, and honorary physician extraordinary to the Portuguese prince regent.[3]
He was a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians (LCP) and practised medicine in Mark Lane.[4]
Sequeira was painted in about 1775 by Thomas Gainsborough, one of his patients, and that oil painting now hangs in Madrid's Museo del Prado.[1][2]
Personal life edit
Sequeira married Esther d'Aguilar (1739-1791), the daughter of Baron Diego Pereira d'Aguilar. In Jews and Medicine: An Epic Saga, Frank Heynick describes him as "wealthy and pompous".[3]
On 21 April 1814, his daughter Lydia died.[5]
His descendants include Jane Sequeira, a British doctor married to the financier Jonathan Ruffer, who collects Spanish old masters and Gainsborough paintings.[1][6]
References edit
- ^ a b c "Reportaje - El salvador de los 'zurbarán'". El País. 24 April 2011. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
- ^ a b "Isaac Henrique Sequeira - The Collection - Museo Nacional del Prado". museodelprado.es. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
- ^ a b c Frank Heynick (2002). Jews and Medicine: An Epic Saga. KTAV Publishing House, Inc. p. 449. ISBN 978-0-88125-773-1. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
- ^ The Royal kalendar, or Complete and correct annual register [afterw.] The Royal kalendar and Court and city register. [2 eds.]. 1782. p. 122. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
- ^ "Obituaries". The Gentleman's Magazine. 1814. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
- ^ "Zurbarans' trustees revealed by owner". The Northern Echo. Retrieved 5 February 2018.