Fig. 2. An anatomical lesson. Group portrait of Professor Max Weber and some of his pupils painted in oils by Louis Stracké, 1886. From left to right, standing: laboratory assistant Sleking, Jacobus Marinus Janse (1860-1938), Johannes Theodorus Oudemans (1862-1934), Weber, Friedrich August Ferdinand Christian Went (1863-1935), the musician De Josselin de Jong (according to Mrs. Anna Weber), and Sleking's son. On the foreground a person known as "the last whaler", probably a member of the crew of the Willem Barents who joined with Weber the expedition to Nova Zembla in 1881. Actual canvas size: 240 x 117 cm. Donation of Anna Weber-van Bosse to the University of Amsterdam, now present in the hall of building II at the Biological Centre Anna's Hoeve, Kruislaan 320, Amsterdam. (Cf. Scheller, 1985.)
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