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Professor Ingram Bywater
Bequeathed by Mrs Ingram Bywater 1914
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painting oil paint canvas
Professor Ingram Bywater
support: 1473 × 972 mm
Bequeathed by Mrs Ingram Bywater 1914
<p><b>N03012</b> PROFESSOR INGRAM BYWATER <i>c</i>. 1900–1</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘John S. Sargent’ t.l.
<br/>Canvas, 58×38 1/4 (147·5×97·5).
<br/>Bequeathed by Mrs Ingram Bywater 1908 with life interest to her husband, who died in 1914.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> R.A., 1901 (421).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Downes, 1925, p.56; Charteris, 1927, p.268; Mount, 1955, p.436; Mckibbin, 1956, p.87; Mount, 1957, p.345.</p>
<p>Professor Ingram Bywater (1840–1914), Greek scholar and Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Oxford 1893–1908; President of the Oxford Aristotelian Society for twenty-five years until his retirement in 1908; a Delegate of the University Press from 1879, and a renowned bibliophile. 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/portrait" title="Glossary definition for 'Portrait'"><span>portrait</span></a> has been variously dated to 1900 or 1901.</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, II
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actions: postures and motions adults body book - non-specific Bywater, Ingram, Professor chair educational and scientific furnishings individuals: male leisure and pastimes man moustache named individuals objects ornament people portraits professor reading reading, writing, printed matter recreational activities sitting table work and occupations