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Actions Displays	Professor Averil Mansfield FRCS Remove from selection Add to selection Reproduction Object numberRCSSC/P 3154 CollectionSpecial collections CategoryVisual works Object namePortraits, Photographs TitleProfessor Averil Mansfield FRCS DescriptionPortrait of Averil Mansfield, by Jane Brettle, 2008 (2003). Averil Mansfield was educated and trained in Liverpool. After consultant posts in Liverpool and Hillingdon and Hammersmith Hospitals she moved to St Mary’s Hospital in 1982. In 1993 she became Professor of Vascular Surgery at Imperial College School of Medicine, the first woman to become chairman of a department of surgery in the UK. She retired from clinical practice in 2002. Averil Mansfield served on the College Council from 1990 to 2000 and was Vice President from 1998 to 2000. She was a member of the Court of Examiners and their first elected chairman, and was also the initiator and first chairman of the Women in Surgical Training scheme. This is one of six portraits of women surgeons acquired by the College from the artist Jane Brettle in 2008 (see related records). Derived in part from an earlier project by Brettle entitled 'airside', the portraits were influenced in their formal and aesthetic quality by the portraits of the late 18th early 19th century painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. They consist of half or three-quarter length poses, with particular consideration given to situation, detail, colour and scale. The subjects are portrayed in settings that relate to their professional work - in this case, as surgeons and as elected members of the Council of the College. This portrait was taken in front of the statue of John Hunter in the Inner Hall of the College for the 'airside' project in 2003. Production date 2003 - 2008 Artist‎ Brettle, Jane, -, artist Sitter/subject Mansfield, Averil Olive, -, surgeon Associated institution Royal College of Surgeons of England purchased Brettle, Jane, -, artist (2008) Related objectsRCSSC/P 3151RCSSC/P 3155RCSSC/P 3152RCSSC/P 3153RCSSC/P 3150RCSSC/P 125 Physical Location LocationNot on public display: contact museum for access conditions Physical Information Physical descriptionLambda photographic print, 100cm by 132cm, framed and UV glazed with archival backing/slip, frame 107cm by 140cm. Dimensions Frame height: 1400 mm Frame width: 1040 mm Print height: 1320 mm Print width: 1000 mm

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Object numberRCSSC/P 3154

TitleProfessor Averil Mansfield FRCS

DescriptionPortrait of Averil Mansfield, by Jane Brettle, 2008 (2003). Averil Mansfield was educated and trained in Liverpool. After consultant posts in Liverpool and Hillingdon and Hammersmith Hospitals she moved to St Mary’s Hospital in 1982. In 1993 she became Professor of Vascular Surgery at Imperial College School of Medicine, the first woman to become chairman of a department of surgery in the UK. She retired from clinical practice in 2002. Averil Mansfield served on the College Council from 1990 to 2000 and was Vice President from 1998 to 2000. She was a member of the Court of Examiners and their first elected chairman, and was also the initiator and first chairman of the Women in Surgical Training scheme. This is one of six portraits of women surgeons acquired by the College from the artist Jane Brettle in 2008 (see related records). Derived in part from an earlier project by Brettle entitled 'airside', the portraits were influenced in their formal and aesthetic quality by the portraits of the late 18th early 19th century painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. They consist of half or three-quarter length poses, with particular consideration given to situation, detail, colour and scale. The subjects are portrayed in settings that relate to their professional work - in this case, as surgeons and as elected members of the Council of the College. This portrait was taken in front of the statue of John Hunter in the Inner Hall of the College for the 'airside' project in 2003.

Production date 2003 - 2008

Artist‎

Brettle, Jane, -, artist

Sitter/subject

Mansfield, Averil Olive, -, surgeon

Associated institution

Royal College of Surgeons of England

purchased

Brettle, Jane, -, artist (2008)

Related objectsRCSSC/P 3151RCSSC/P 3155RCSSC/P 3152RCSSC/P 3153RCSSC/P 3150RCSSC/P 125