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Dr. William Beekman
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About this work
There were numerous William Beekmans living in New York and New England during the late eighteenth century, but few who obtained medical degrees. The subject of this portrait may have been the Beekman who served as a doctor and is on record as having witnessed at least one patient’s will on Long Island during the 1750s.
Smithsonian American Art Museum’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineDr. William Beekman. ca. 1795. Alexander Robertson, born Aberdeen, Scotland-died New York City 1841. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Catherine Walden Myer Fund. CC0.
