Portrait of Dr. Alexander Vache
Oil painting on canvas. Framed measures 29 x 23 1/4". Splendid original oil portrait, by Henry Inman; bust-length, showing the handsome physician in middle-age, with black curling hair, black coat; right hand thrust into coat. One of the most distinguished physicians in New York City a century ago, Vache was physician to the Alms-House Hospital, surgeon to Bellevue, physician to the William and Centre Streets Cholera Hospitals, and also Health Officer of the City. More