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Description: | Acquisition: subscribed for by a body of subscribers, November 1896 Description: Bust, facing viewer; bald head, receding hair curling over ears, side-whiskers; eyeballs incised; turned-down collar and white tie; Master of Arts (M.A.) gown over dress clothes. Presumably first marble version of bust exhibited Royal Academy, 1892, no.1900; another marble copy at Balliol College (Jones, op.cit., p.33, no.74); another, with black patination, at St Paul's School, London. ' Acta 8 May 1926 "agreed to transfer the busts of Lord North, Duke of Wellington, Dean Ireland, Rev. F.W. Robertson, Professor Jowett, and Prince Leopold to the Examination Schools." ' ('Transfers of portraits etc. to the Examination Schools. 1909-[49]', Bodleian Library Records, d.1183, Bodleian Library) 'Read a letter from the Bodleian Librarian (Dr Cowley) offering the Schools Curators ... busts of Lord North, the Duke of Wellington, Dean Ireland, F.W. Robertson, Prince Leopold and Mr Jowett. It was resolved that the offer be accepted, and that ... busts be placed in suitable positions in the Examination Schools.' (Minutes of the Curators of the Schools, 1914-[1952], 15 June 1926, Oxford University Archives, ES/1/1/2, p.78) External Link: Oxford Portraits website | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: by Henry Richard Hope Pinker | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=912... | Go to resource |
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