Isaac Henrique Sequeira (1738-1816) was a Portuguese Sephardic Jewish doctor.

Early life

Sequeira was born in

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, and educated at Bordeaux and Leiden.

Career

Sequeira served as physician extraordinary to the Portuguese Embassy at the

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in London, and honorary physician extraordinary to the Portuguese prince regent. He was a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians (LCP) and practised medicine in Mark Lane. Sequeira was painted in about 1775 by Thomas Gainsborough, one of his patients, and that oil painting now hangs in Madrid's

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Personal life

Sequeira married Esther d'Aguilar (1739-1791), the daughter of

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. In ''Jews and Medicine: An Epic Saga'', Frank Heynick describes him as "wealthy and pompous". On 21 April 1814, his daughter Lydia died. His descendants include Jane Sequeira, a British doctor married to the financier

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, who collects Spanish old masters and Gainsborough paintings.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sequeira, Isaac Henrique 1738 births 1816 deaths 18th-century Jewish physicians of Portugal European Sephardi Jews