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Description: | Acquisition: gift from Sir Hubert von Herkomer, 1912 Description: Three-quarter length, seated facing viewer; bald head with grey hair to sides, moustache and beard; black dress; both hands unfinished, his right holds a college cap in front of him, his left is by his side; dark brown background. This study, and OP nos 182-184, were painted before Herkomer's class in the course of the years that Sir Hubert held the Slade Professorship, 1885-94. 'Now, I always had misgivings about a literary judgement on art, for it loses sight of a vital element, the technique. I intended therefore to leave the literature of art in the background, and to place before the students painting "in the making," to demonstrate the art by actually painting a portrait in their presence. ... I would paint a half-length portrait of some well-known member of the University, who offered himself as my subject, in six sittings of an hour each. Several of these portraits I presented to the Taylor Gallery in Oxford, just as I left them (more or less finished) at the sixth demonstration lecture.' (H. von Herkomer, The Herkomers, 2 vols, 1910-11, 2, p.91) The portrait was moved from the Ashmolean Museum to the Examination Schools in 1983. External Link: Oxford Portraits website | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: by Sir Hubert von Herkomer | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=920... | Go to resource |
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