Portraits in Oxford *

OP98
Goldwin Smith

Artist: by Sir Edmund Wyly Grier

Date: 1894

Medium: oil on canvas

Measurements: height 1372 mm. (54 in.) width 1067 mm. (42 in.)

Inscriptions:
on back: 'PORTRAIT OF PROFESSOR GOLDWIN SMITH, SOMETIME REGIUS PROFESSOR OF MODERN HISTORY AT OXFORD. TO BE PRESENTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD BY PROFESSOR GOLDWIN SMITH. E. WYLY GRIER. C./O. CHAPMAN BROTHERS.' (Lane Poole, 1, p.127, no.322); below to left: 'E. Wyly Grier/ 1894'; at centre/lower right: 'Aet. 72'

Acquisition: gift from Goldwin Smith, 1894-1910

Location: Examination Schools

Description:
Nearly whole length, seated to right in a wooden library chair, head turned towards viewer; grey hair; moustache and whiskers; white collar and shirt; black tie; black undress gown of Doctor of Civil Law (D.C.L.) with scarlet hood over dark clothes; gold-rimmed eye-glasses hanging from waistcoat button; hands clasped, resting on lap; above to right, three shields of arms: Oriel College (top left), Magdalen College (top right), and University College (below centre).

'Act of Convocation: That the Curators of the Bodleian Library be authorized to transfer from the Picture Gallery to the Examination Schools ten portraits [including] Goldwin Smith, by Grier' (Oxford University Gazette, 13 Nov 1929, p.144)

Literature:
R. Lane Poole, Catalogue of Portraits in the possession of the University, Colleges, City, and County of Oxford, 3 vols (1912, 1925), I, p.127, no.322; Oxford University Gazette (13 Nov 1929), p.144