John Partridge was a British artist and portrait painter. Named 'portrait painter-extraordinary' to Queen Victoria, his pictures depict many of the notable figures of his time.
Self-portrait, c. 1838, National Portrait Gallery, London
George Robinson of the London Dock Company by John Partridge (detail)
Portrait by John Partridge of Joseph Hodgson (1848)
Richard Partridge FRS, FRCS was a British surgeon. Although he became President of both the Royal College of Surgeons and the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society, he is best known for his part in apprehending the London Burkers gang and for failing to spot a bullet lodged in Giuseppe Garibaldi's leg.
Richard Partridge in 1873
The muscles of the face. From an article by Partridge in Bentley's Cyclopaedia (1839)
Giuseppe Garibaldi in 1866, four years after surviving a bullet wound misdiagnosed by Partridge
Auguste NĂ©laton, whose porcelain-tipped probe was key to saving Garibaldi's leg