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  • A savant in his cabinet, surrounded by chemical and other apparatus, examining a flask. Oil painting by Mattheus van Helmont, 167-.
  • A dwarfish alchemist, caricatured because of the vanity of his obsession. Line engraving, c. 1720.
  • Interior with an alchemist seated at a table, writing. Oil painting by a follower of Thomas Wijck (Thomas Wyck).
  • A young woman, perhaps Prudentia, warns an alchemist of the dangers of abusing fire: in the background fires rage in buildings and mines. Engraving by C. de Passe after M. de Vos, 16th century.
  • An alchemist. Oil painting after Jan Havicksz. Steen.
  • A monkey alchemist. Oil painting by E. Bristow.
  • An alchemist applying bellows to a furnace. Oil painting by a follower (?) of François-Marius Granet.
  • A young woman, perhaps Prudentia, warns an alchemist of the dangers of abusing fire: in the background fires rage in buildings and mines. Engraving by C. de Passe after M. de Vos, 16th century.
  • An alchemist in his laboratory. Oil painting by a follower of David Teniers II.
  • An alchemist in his laboratory. Oil painting by a follower of David Teniers the younger.
  • An alchemist. Oil painting by Eugène Lomont, 1890.
  • An alchemist concentrates on a book in his study, while Death next to him tells him "My dear Herr Collaborator, you are are too hardworking". Gouache painting.
  • A lady visiting an alchemist in his laboratory. Oil painting attributed to Jan Josef Horemans, 17--.
  • A philosopher in his study, reading a book containing a print of a skeleton. Etching by J.A. von Prenner, 1728, after C. Paudiss.
  • Interior with an alchemist seated in centre and his assistants to left and right. Oil painting attributed to M. van Helmont, 16--.
  • A young man blowing a bellows, while an alchemist, chemist or goldsmith watches through spectacles. Engraving by C. Guttenberg after F. van Mieris.
  • An alchemist seated at a furnace, turning away in thought. Oil painting after David Teniers II (?).
  • An alchemist in his laboratory. Oil painting by a follower of David Teniers the younger.
  • An alchemist reading in a romanticised laboratory setting. Watercolour painting, 19th century.
  • An alchemist in his laboratory. Oil painting by a follower of David Teniers the younger.
  • A dwarf alchemist and his assistant standing by a crucible. Etching, 18th century.
  • An alchemist in his laboratory. Oil painting after D. Teniers II.
  • Interior with an alchemist seated at a table, looking out of the picture. Oil painting by Thomas Wijck (Thomas Wyck).
  • An alchemist holding tongs at his furnace. Etching by J. Wagner after D. Maggiotto.
  • An alchemist in his laboratory. Oil painting by James Nasmyth.
  • An alchemist in his laboratory. Oil painting by a follower of David Teniers the younger.
  • An alchemist's laboratory. Oil painting.
  • An alchemist hunched over his crucible; an assistant reads him a recipe, watched by an onlooker; the alchemist's wife weeps in the dim background, a baby clasped to her breast. Engraving by J. Boydell, c. 1760, after J. Steen.
  • Interior with an alchemist seated at a table, looking out of the picture. Oil painting by Thomas Wijck (Thomas Wyck).
  • An alchemist in a long robe standing reading above an open chest of books which he has rifled through; a large vaulted hall surrounds him, littered with alchemical apparatus. Pen and pencil drawing by J. Nasmyth, 1854.