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= William_Anderson_(collector) =
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Introduction
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William Anderson FRCS (18 December 1842 - 27 October 1900) was an
English surgeon born in Shoreditch, London. He was Professor of
Anatomy at the Royal Academy in London, and an important collector and
scholar of Japanese art. He was the first chairman of the Japan
Society. The genetic disorder Anderson-Fabry disease is named after
him.
Life
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Anderson was educated at the City of London School, the Lambeth School
of Art (where he was awarded a medal for artistic anatomy) and St
Thomas's Hospital (where he also won numerous prizes). He became a
Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1869. At St Thomas's
Hospital, he was in 1871 appointed surgical registrar and assistant
demonstrator of anatomy. In 1873, he moved to Tokyo, Japan, where he
was professor of anatomy and surgery at the Imperial Naval Medical
College, and gave lectures both in English and in Japanese, which he
learned for that purpose. Here, he assembled his collections and began
his study of Japanese art. He was eventually, in 1895, appointed as a
knight commander of the Japanese order of the Rising Sun. He returned
to St Thomas's Hospital in London in 1880, and eventually became
senior lecturer on anatomy. He was elected professor of anatomy at the
Royal Academy in 1891. He published the first description of the
genetic disorder that later became known as Anderson-Fabry disease. He
was twice married.
Collecting
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In 1881, the British Museum purchased Anderson's collection of over
2000 Japanese and Chinese paintings, ensuring that it had (and still
has) one of the largest such collections in its field in Europe.
Between 1882 and 1900, Anderson donated his collection of
approximately 2000 Japanese illustrated woodblock-printed books to
what is now the British Library. He was the author of the
'Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of a Collection of Japanese and
Chinese Paintings in the British Museum' (1886); and 'The' 'Pictorial
Arts of Japan' (1886).
See also
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* List of Old Citizens
External links
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*
*[
http://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/biogs/E000685b.htm Biography from
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online]
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