Richard Mead
1673–1754
Physician and collector of books and art. Studied medicine at Leiden and Padua; MD, Padua, 1695. DM, Oxford, 1707; FRCP 1716. Owned 10,000 volumes and 150 paintings, including works by Rembrandt, Poussin, and Canaletto, and a noted collection of miniatures.
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Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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