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Sir Charles Grant Robertson (1869–1948), Vice-Chancellor

Herbert James Gunn (1893–1964)

University of Birmingham

Sir Charles Grant Robertson (1869–1948), Vice-Chancellor

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Three-quarter-length portrait, the sitter facing three-quarters left, wearing a Vice Chancellor's gown and with his hands clasped on his lap. Charles Grant Robertson was a historian. He came from Oxford where he was a Fellow of All Souls College and was a tutor of the Prince of Wales. He succeeded Sir Oliver Lodge as Vice-Chancellor in 1920 and continued his post up until 1938. Through his influence and diplomacy, the University built the Barber Institute in 1939. The artist here, James Gunn, was a Glaswegian painter who later moved to Paris where he remained up until 1914, when he returned to England and became an important portrait painter.

University of Birmingham

Birmingham

Title

Sir Charles Grant Robertson (1869–1948), Vice-Chancellor

Date

1938

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 109.2 x W 91.4 cm

Accession number

A0024

Acquisition method

commissioned by the University of Birmingham, 1938

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

Signed, bottom right, James Gunn

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Herbert James Gunn

1893–1964

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