Approximatly 300 portraits of medical men from the 16th to the early 20th centuries collected by Robert Innes Smith (1872-1933), a doctor who worked in the Brightside area of Sheffield. Most of the items in the collection are engravings, mezzotints, lithographs and photographs, the majority being portraits of distinguished medical men although some non-medical related portraits are also included within the collection. The collection reflects the interests of Innes Smith, a large proportion of the portraits being Scottish and Continental sitters. The largest component is the group of Georgian and Victorian medical men. Many of them are not listed in Burgess: 'Portraits in the Wellcome Institute', London, 1973. The nineteenth century photographs (e.g. Addison, Lister) are unusual and rare. This may well be the largest institutional collection of medical portrait-prints outside London.

For further details of this collection and digitised images, please see the External Documents section below.