Sir John Shadwell (1671-1747), in red silk cloak and white cravat, full-bottomed powdered wig

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BENJAMIN ARLAUD (ANGLO-SWISS, C. 1670 - AFTER 1731)
Sir John Shadwell (1671-1747), in red silk cloak and white cravat, full-bottomed powdered wig
oval, 2 in. (50 mm.) high, gilt-metal bezel

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By family descent.

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拍品专文

Sir John Shadwell, son of Thomas Shadwell and Anne, daughter of Thomas Gibbs of Norwich, matriculated from University College, Oxford in 1685. As physician in ordinary to Queen Anne, he was admitted a fellow of the College of Physicians on 22 December 1712. He was a fellow of the Royal Society and was appointed as physician-extraordinary to Queen Anne on 9 November 1709. The accounts of the Queen's illness in December 1713-1714 in Boyer's 'History of the reign of Queen Anne' are derived from Shadwell's letters to the Duke and Duchess of Shrewsbury. Boyer recorded Shadwell's opinion that the Queen died of 'gouty humour translating itself upon the brain'. He continued to be physician in ordinary to King George I and King George II and was knighted in 1715. In 1735 he retired to France where he remained until 1740. He died on 4 January 1747 and was buried in Bath Abbey where there is a tomb with an elaborate epitaph. He was married twice; first in 1722 and secondly to Ann Binns on 12 March 1725.