Nicolaes Tulp Nicolaes Tulp Nicolaes Tulp (9 October 1593 – 12 September 1674) was a Dutch surgeon and mayor of Amsterdam. Tulp was well known for his upstanding moral character and as the subject of Rembrandt's famous painting "The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp". Born Claes Pieterszoon, he was the son of a prosperous merchant active in civic affairs in Amsterdam. From 1611 to 1614 he studied medicine in Leiden. When he returned to Amsterdam he became a respected doctor and in 1617 he married Aagfe Van der Voegh. An ambitious young man, he adopted the tulip as his heraldric emblem
The Doctor (Doctor Who) later woven into the Doctor. References to the Doctor's family are rare in the programme. During the first two seasons he travelled with his granddaughter, Susan Foreman, who has since been referred to occasionally and who returned in "The Five Doctors". In "The Tomb of the Cybermen" when asked about his family, the Second Doctor says his memories of them are alive when he wants them to be otherwise they sleep in his mind and he forgets. In "The Curse of Fenric," when asked if he has family, the Seventh Doctor replies that he does not know. In the 1996