Portrait of Jacob de Castro-Sarmento (1692-1762) Finish:Float frame Botanical study of a specimen

Botanical study of a specimen of capsicum with small red and green peppers

pictured outside ground

Illustrations include a centaur race

and entrusted by his master'

Portrait of Jacob de Castro-Sarmento (1692-1762) Finish:Float frame Botanical study of a specimenHalf length portrait of Sarmeto, wearing a shoulder length wig and holding a book with his left hand, spine forward, with the label 'NEW'. A ring is shown prominently on the little finger of this hand. A book case, half hidden by a curtain or drape, is seen behind. . Inscribed: 'H. Stevens Pinxt. 1729 Andrw. Miller fecit, 1737. Dr. Jacob de Castro Sarmento, do Real Collegio dos Medicos de Londres, e Socio da R. S. Aetat. Suae, 45. 1737.' Inscribed in