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D. B. McNeill, a physicist by profession, was educated in Portora Royal School, Enniskillen and at Queen’s, Belfast, where he worked as a demonstrator in physics (1935–1938). Thereafter, he spent his academic career in Southampton University, from which he retired in 1971. A keen oarsman, McNeill began rowing at Portora in 1927, was a founder member of the boat club at Queen’s in 1931 and was captain and president of the boat clubs at Queen’s and Southampton Universities. The portrait, three-quarter length, shows him ‘in his winter rowing kit which consisted of an old army leather jerkin (issued in North Africa in February 1943) and a red bobble cap presented (?) to him about 1975. He is shown in the characteristic pose of a rowing coach waiting for his crew at a boathouse.
Queen's University Belfast
Belfast
Title
D. B. McNeill (1911–2010)
Date
1990
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 91.8 x W 71 cm
Accession number
QUB 63
Acquisition method
gift, 1990
Work type
Painting
Inscription description
Raymond Piper
Queen's University Belfast
University Road, Belfast, County Antrim BT7 1NN Northern Ireland
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