We are pleased to announce the return of the 1626 portrait of Sir Kenelm Digby to Archives & Special Collections.  The portrait by the Anglo-Dutch painter Cornelius Johnson (1593-1661), had been purchased by Dr. Jerome P. Webster in the late 1950s and came to the Health Sciences Library with the Jerome P. Webster Library of Plastic Surgery after his death in 1974.  After hanging in the Archives & Special Collections reading room for several years, the panel on which the portrait is painted was found to be cracking.  With no funds available at the time for restoration it was placed in storage in the 1980s with the Office of University Art Properties.

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