title: Dentist, artist, pioneer: orthodontic innovator Norman Kingsley and his Rembrandt portraits.
abstract: Norman W. Kingsley (1829-1913) was one of the most inventive contributors to the early development of orthodontics and cleft palate therapy. Gifted not only in dentistry but also in art, he was a sculptor and painter of considerable renown in his day. The author reports the rediscovery of two Kingsley paintings--exacting copies of Rembrandt self-portraits. Kingsley created them by using pyrography, a rare and difficult wood-charring artistic technique that he helped perfect.
authors.affiliation: School of Dentistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. peckslam@gmail.com
authors.forename: Sheldon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Peck
mesh_terms: D001154:Art / Q000266:history*; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D009970:Orthodontics / Q000266:history*; D010151:Paintings / Q000266:history; D014481:United States