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Henry Solomon Wellcome: three-quarter length. Oil painting by Hugh Goldwin Riviere, 1906..
[place of publication not identified] :
[publisher not identified],
1906.
1 online resource.
Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
"Signature has HR in monogram."--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
Original resource extent: 1 painting: oil on canvas; canvas 112.5 x 88 centimeters.
Henry S. Wellcome was born in 1853 to a poor farm family in Almond, Wisconsin. Upon his death in 1936, the Wellcome Trust, a British charity, was created. Many years later, it became the most highly endowed charity in the world, with assets of 15 billion pounds. Wellcome owed this achievement to his success as a pharmaceutical manufacturer and salesman. After training as a pharmacist at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, he went to England in 1880 to join his college friend S. Mainville Burroughs in a new pharmaceutical company called Burroughs, Wellcome & Co. When Burroughs died in 1895, Wellcome became sole owner of the company. He used his wealth to fund many charitable projects, including libraries, laboratories, and museums. His own historical collection forms the nucleus of the present Wellcome Library in London, and in 1932 he built the Wellcome Building on London's Euston Road to display the collection. Wellcome bequeathed ownership of the pharmaceutical company to the Wellcome Trust, which owned it until 1986, after which the Trust gradually sold the company in order to diversify and stabilize its assets. Wellcome's will formed the founding document of the Wellcome Trust.
Original resource at:
Wellcome Library.
Content in English.
Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.
1906
Oil paintings
Portrait paintings
Wellcome, Henry S. (Henry Solomon), Sir, 1853-1936
Riviere, Hugh Goldwin, 1869-1956
Artist.
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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