Photograph of a charcoal portrait by Deane Keller. The Yale School of Medicine does not own the original portrait. The Library has several copies of this photograph, some with Edith Jackson's signature.
Digital photograph taken by Carl Kaufman and William Sacco, Yale Photo and Design, in 2009 of an oil portrait in the Yale School of Medicine. Deane Keller painted this portrait after an earlier portrait in the Connecticut Historical Society.
Subject (Geographic):
United States
Subject (Name):
Connecticut Retreat for the Insane and Todd, Eli, 1769-1833
DeCusati, Emiddio Sharples, James Yale Art Gallery
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Paintings & Drawings
Description:
Smith, a graduate of Yale College and a Connecticut physician, moved to New York where he became one of the founding editors of the Medical Repository (1797), the first American medical journal. He died in the yellow fever epidemic in New York in 1798. This pastel portrait hangs in the Steiner Room.