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George V (1865–1936) had a long association with the Royal College of Music (RCM), having been present at his father’s visit to the newly opened College on 7 May 1883. He succeeded his father, Edward VII, as President of the College (in 1901) and as Patron (in 1911), and attended the celebrations of the College’s fiftieth anniversary on 9 May 1933.

This portrait, like the companion portrait of Queen Mary, was commissioned for the RCM by Mr Robert Finnie McEwan, a generous member of the RCM Council. The artist’s father, Charles West Cope, was a well known painter of historical and genre subjects, but Arthur Cope specialised in portraits and had a very distinguished list of sitters to his credit. He also ran an art school in South Kensington, where Vanessa Bell (1879–1961) was among his pupils.

Royal College of Music

London

Title

George V (1865–1936)

Date

1926

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 124 x W 101 cm

Accession number

PPHC000274

Acquisition method

commissioned by Robert Finnie McEwan, 1926

Work type

Painting

Royal College of Music

Prince Consort Road, London, Greater London SW7 2BS England

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Artist or maker

Arthur Stockdale Cope

1857–1940

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