Isaac Henrique Sequeira

Isaac Henrique Sequeira (1738-1816) was a Portuguese Sephardic Jewish doctor.[1]

Isaac Henrique Sequeira, by Gainsborough

Early life

Sequeira was born in Lisbon,[2] and educated at Bordeaux and Leiden.[3]

Career

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

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]

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References
  1. País, Ediciones El (24 April 2011). "Reportaje - El salvador de los 'zurbarán'". Retrieved 5 February 2018 – via elpais.com.
  2. "Isaac Henrique Sequeira - The Collection - Museo Nacional del Prado". www.museodelprado.es. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. "Obituaries". The Gentleman's Magazine. 1814. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
  6. "Zurbarans' trustees revealed by owner". The Northern Echo. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
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