Oil paint on canvas
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Chantrey Bequest
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Lord David Cecil
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1935
actions: postures and motions
adults
aristocrat
book - non-specific
Cecil, David, Lord
critic
educational and scientific
individuals: male
literary
man
named individuals
objects
people
portraits
professor
reading, writing, printed matter
royalty and social rank
sitting
work and occupations
painting oil paint canvas
Lord David Cecil
support: 921 × 718 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> 1935
<p><b>N04819</b> LORD DAVID CECIL, C. H. 1935
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<br/>Not inscribed.
<br/>Canvas, 36 1/4×28 1/4 (92×72).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1935.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> R.A., 1935 (194).
<br/><i>Repr:</i> John Russell, <i>British Portrait Painters</i>, 1944, facing p.40 (in colour); <i>John O'London's Weekly</i>, LX, 23 November 1951, p.775.</p>
<p>Lord David Cecil (b. 1902) has been Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature in Oxford since 1948.</p>
<p>John made no preliminary sketch for this <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> although he made <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> of Lord David Cecil after this picture was painted. An unfinished portrait of the same sitter also dating from 1935 was sold at Christie's, 20 July 1962 (170, repr.).</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, I
<br/></p>

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2004-10-06T00:00:00
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actions: postures and motions adults aristocrat book - non-specific Cecil, David, Lord critic educational and scientific individuals: male literary man named individuals objects people portraits professor reading, writing, printed matter royalty and social rank sitting work and occupations