Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
Works with images
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Chantrey Bequest
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/rodrigo-moynihan-1674" aria-label="More by Rodrigo Moynihan" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Rodrigo Moynihan</a>
Portrait Group
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1952
actions: postures and motions
adults
artist, painter
arts and entertainment
Buhler, Robert
Burn, Rodney J.
chair
educational and scientific
England
furnishings
group
groups
groups
Hayes, Colin
interiors
leisure and pastimes
Mahoney, Charles
man
Minton, John
Moynihan, Rodrigo
named groups
named individuals
objects
people
places
portraits
reading
reclining
recreational activities
Rowntree, Kenneth
Royal College of Art
Royal College of Art painting staff
self-portraits
sitting
Spear, Ruskin
staff room
standing
teacher
UK countries and regions
UK London
Weight, Carel
work and occupations
workspaces
<p>This group portrait was one of 60 paintings for 51 painted for the Arts Council's Festival of Britain exhibition in 1951. It shows the teaching staff of the painting school at London's Royal College of Art. The artist, Rodrigo Moynihan, who was Professor of Painting at the College, appears on the far right.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
15 November 2012 – 3 January 2013
2013-01-03
15 November 2012 – 3 January 2013
2013-01-03
2012-11-15
Royal College of Art (London, UK)
http://www.rca.ac.uk
2012-11-15
Royal College of Art 175th Anniversary
Loan-out
Portrait Group
support: 2134 × 3346 mm
frame: 2215 × 3435 × 75 mm
Presented by the Trustees of the <a href="/search?gid=999999977" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Chantrey Bequest</a> 1952
<p>This group <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/portrait" title="Glossary definition for 'Portrait'"><span>portrait</span></a> was one of 60 <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>paintings</span></a> for 51 painted for the Arts Council's Festival of Britain exhibition in 1951. It shows the teaching staff  of the painting school at London's Royal College  of Art. The artist, Rodrigo Moynihan, who was Professor of Painting at the College, appears  on the far right.
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<p><b>N06079</b> PORTRAIT GROUP 1951</p>
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<p>Not inscribed.
<br/>Canvas, 84×131 3/4 (214×334·5).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1952.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Arts Council, <i>60 Paintings for '51</i>, R.B.A. Galleries and tour, 1951 (38, repr. pl.16); R.A., 1953 (214), as ‘The Teaching Staff of the Painting School, Royal College of Art’.
<br/><i>Lit:</i> A. D. B. Sylvester, ‘Big Pictures for the Festival’ in <i>Burlington Magazine</i>, XCIII, 1951, p.329.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>Studio</i>, CXLII, 1951, p.46; Sir John Rothenstein, <i>British Art since 1900</i>, 1962, pl.61.</p>
<p>Painted for the Arts Council's 1951 exhibition. The picture shows the teaching staff of the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a> school of the Royal College of Art (from l. to r., John Minton, Colin Hayes, Carel Weight, Rodney Burn, Robert Buhler, Charles Mahoney, Kenneth Rowntree, Ruskin Spear and Rodrigo Moynihan himself) but was painted as a figure <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/composition" title="Glossary definition for 'Composition'"><span>composition</span></a> rather than as a commemorative <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/portrait" title="Glossary definition for 'Portrait'"><span>portrait</span></a>. The portrait of Moynihan was laid in by Buhler: ‘I asked Buhler to paint me as it was difficult to get certain <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/proportion" title="Glossary definition for 'Proportion'"><span>proportions</span></a> - but I am certain it is mostly repainted by me. I think his original version was when I still had a beard!’ (Letter from the artist of 29 September 1959.)</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>Drawings</span></a> and <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/sculpture" title="Glossary definition for 'Sculpture'"><span>Sculpture</span></a></i>, London 1964, II
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Catalogue entry
2004-10-08T00:00:00
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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
actions: postures and motions adults artist, painter arts and entertainment Buhler, Robert Burn, Rodney J. chair educational and scientific England furnishings group groups groups Hayes, Colin interiors leisure and pastimes Mahoney, Charles man Minton, John Moynihan, Rodrigo named groups named individuals objects people places portraits reading reclining recreational activities Rowntree, Kenneth Royal College of Art Royal College of Art painting staff self-portraits sitting Spear, Ruskin staff room standing teacher UK countries and regions UK London Weight, Carel work and occupations workspaces