Little bit of art history leads sideways to embryology

HDAC has a lot of work of Mall’s, who’s mentioned in this article, and was a pioneering embryologist.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/06/nyregion/06portraits.html

July 5, 2010

A Portraitist, and His Images of the Famous, Come to Light

By DAVID GONZALEZ

 

Working with only a catalog from a 1914 show in Rochester, Mr. Seyffert hunted down a portrait of Dr. Franklin Mall, a renowned professor of anatomy at Johns Hopkins University. The painting, which was in storage at the university, had vexed archivists.

“We were very interested to have the identity of the artist,” said Nancy McCall, director of the archives for the Hopkins Medical Institutions. “It is an extraordinarily well-done portrait. The head and hands are exquisite.”