Isaac Henrique Sequeira
{{Short description|Portuguese Sephardic Jewish doctor}}
File:Isaac Henrique Sequeira (Gainsborough).jpg
Isaac Henrique Sequeira (1738-1816) was a Portuguese Sephardic Jewish doctor.
Early life
Career
Sequeira served as physician extraordinary to the Portuguese Embassy at the Court of St James's in London, and honorary physician extraordinary to the Portuguese prince regent.{{cite book|author=Frank Heynick|title=Jews and Medicine: An Epic Saga|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mAiD-P1CjeYC&pg=PA449|accessdate=5 February 2018|year=2002|publisher=KTAV Publishing House, Inc.|isbn=978-0-88125-773-1|page=449}}
He was a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians (LCP) and practised medicine in Mark Lane.{{cite book|title=The Royal kalendar, or Complete and correct annual register [afterw.] The Royal kalendar and Court and city register. [2 eds.].|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L-kNAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA121|accessdate=5 February 2018|year=1782|page=122}}
Sequeira was painted in about 1775 by Thomas Gainsborough, one of his patients, and that oil painting now hangs in Madrid's Museo del Prado.{{cite web|url=https://elpais.com/diario/2011/04/24/cultura/1303596003_850215.html|title=Reportaje - El salvador de los 'zurbarán'|date=24 April 2011|accessdate=5 February 2018|work=El País}}{{cite web|url=https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/isaac-henrique-sequeira/8a1936f6-a7d8-4c00-b9a5-6bb1a99df911|title=Isaac Henrique Sequeira - The Collection - Museo Nacional del Prado|website=museodelprado.es|accessdate=5 February 2018}}
Personal life
Sequeira married Esther d'Aguilar (1739-1791), the daughter of Baron Diego Pereira d'Aguilar. In Jews and Medicine: An Epic Saga, Frank Heynick describes him as "wealthy and pompous".
On 21 April 1814, his daughter Lydia died.{{cite news|title=Obituaries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LfoRAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22Isaac+Henriques+Sequeira%22&pg=PA518|accessdate=5 February 2018|work=The Gentleman's Magazine|year=1814}}
His descendants include Jane Sequeira, a British doctor married to the financier Jonathan Ruffer, who collects Spanish old masters and Gainsborough paintings.{{cite web|url=http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/8979806.Zurbarans____trustees_revealed_by_owner/|title=Zurbarans' trustees revealed by owner|website=The Northern Echo|accessdate=5 February 2018}}
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Category:18th-century Jewish Portuguese physicians