| Inscription Content | Top right, monogram of Reid: R On Frame: John Struthers MD LLD, Professor of Anatomy 1863-88 Presented to the University of Aberdeen by his old pupils and friends to mark their admiration of him as a teacher and a man of science May 1892, Painted by Sir George Reid FRSA. |
| Caption | "Struthers (1823-99) was Professor of Anatomy at Aberdeen University from 1863-88. George Reid, (1841-1913) trained in Edinburgh, in Holland studying with G.A. Mollinger and J. Israels, and in Paris. Initially a landscape painter he increasingly worked as a portraitist. He is closely associated with John Forbes White, the Aberdeen patron and collector."
Author: Morrison,John Date: 2002 Purpose: HA3541
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