New light on some Harvey portraits. In memoriam Sir Geoffrey Keynes.

SOME evidence has come to light which makes it possible to relate three familiar portraits of Dr William Harvey more closely to one another and to suggest a common point of origin from an important branch of the Harvey family. These are the Kent and Canterbury Hospital portrait, the King's Weston version, and the SurrendenDering portrait. Anyone venturing into the field of Harvey portraiture must first pay homage to Sir Geoffrey Keynes, who gave us not only The life of William Harvey but also The portraiture of William Harvey,' the Thomas Vicary lecture delivered to the Royal College of Surgeons in 1948 and published as a book in the following year.