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The artist was presumably a member of the same family as the better-known Mattheus Ignatius and Philippe Jacob van Bree. The painting is similar to one by Philippe Jacob of the pharmacy of St Johns Hospital, Bruges, but here the secular elements are stressed: an old man and a woman are sitting down for a chat while the pharmacist and his apprentice are grinding up materia medica, presumably for the prescriptions of their waiting customers. However the furnishings and equipment are very similar to those in the Bruges painting – they seem to date from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Title
Interior of a Pharmacy, with Four Figures
Date
1860
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 78 x W 94 cm (E)
Accession number
47321i
Acquisition method
purchased by Henry S. Wellcome, c.1900–1936
Work type
Painting
Inscription description
Jos. Van Brée 1860
Wellcome Collection
183 Euston Road, London, Greater London NW1 2BE England
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