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This portrait was commissioned by the Museum's Trustees on the sitter's retirement as Chairman in 1972. His pose is relaxed, with his hands folded on his lap, and he leans back in the chair with his weight somewhat on his right elbow over the chair arm. The corner of a table is included in front of him, lower left. On this are a small rectangular portulan-pattern chart, a pair of historic-pattern brass navigator's dividers and the so-called 'Armada' astrolabe of about 1588 from the NMM collection. In the upper right corner on the plain grey wall is part of an image of William Borough's portulan chart of the Atlantic coasts of Europe of about 1580 showing the east coast of England and part of the North Sea. Runciman came from a well-known ship-owning family and was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge.
Title
Walter Leslie Runciman (1900–1989), 2nd Viscount Runciman of Doxford
Date
1973
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 91.4 x W 71.1 cm
Accession number
BHC2988
Work type
Painting
National Maritime Museum
Romney Road, Greenwich, London, Greater London SE10 9NF England
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