Dentist, artist, pioneer : Orthodontic innovator Norman Kingsley and his Rembrandt portraits

Background and OverviewNorman 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.