6040386 Dr John King (Johan Koenig), 1805-15 (pastel on grey paper) by Sharples, James Junior (1788-1839); Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, UK; (add.info.: A framed colour drawing on grey paper, showing: a half-length portrait of the surgeon and Bristol School artist John King (1766-1846) in his 40s; John King was born Johann Koenig in Berne, Switzerland, and came to work as an engraver in London in the early 1790s; this career didn\'t work out and he later changed to medicine; he was living in Bristol by 1799, where he worked with the pioneering chemists Thomas Beddoes and Humphry Davy, and practised as a surgeon in the city for most of his life; as well as an amateur artist, and member of the Bristol School of Artists, King also wrote extensive reviews of exhibitions in Bristol in later life.); by Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives ; Purchased 1931.