Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle by William Hoare
- GB 2014 WS-03-PIC-002/85
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- Mid 18th Century
Hoare, William, c.1707-1792
Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle by William Hoare
Hoare, William, c.1707-1792
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton after Cornelis Jonson
Bust length, in a black doublet with white lace collar and later inscription on painted oval.
Johnson, Cornelius, 1593-1661
Portrait of Eight Queen's Scholars by Lucy Li
The first eight female Queen's Scholars, depicted in front of the doorway to College.
Li, Lucy, 1999-
Pelham sits on the left to the front of the composition. He is depicted with dark blue-grey eyes and heavy eyebrows nearly concealing a wart above his right eye. His long grey wig falling in front of his left shoulder and behind his right. He wears his chancellor's gown with gold lace over black coat, with a flocked details, lace cravat and wrist ruffles. Pelham is seated in a plain red chair, draped curtain behind, a letter without writing in his left hand. On the right sits John Roberts, with dark blue-grey eyes and dark brows. He is positioned behind a table draped with a green cloth. Roberts wears a red coat with the top button fastened and lace cuffs; he holds a quill to a page and further papers topped by an inkstand holding a second quill can be seen on the extreme right. Behind Roberts is an archway with sky and trees visible beyond. The composition is lit from the top left.
Shackleton, John, d.1767
Scott is portrayed in caricature, facing left; he wears black academic dress and collar; he is swinging a whip in his right hand at a spinning top on the left; on the right is a mortar board; the background shows Little Dean's Yard facing East, with the archway up School.
Dean Liddell and his Sub-Dean at Christ Church by C.F. Brickdale
The man on the left is tall with white hair surrounding a large bald patch (Liddell); the man on the right is much smaller, he has grey hair and wears a black hat.
Fortescue-Brickdale, Charles, Sir, 1857-1944
Dr. Cyril Jackson after William Owen
Half length, seated in a chair, wearing clerics robes. In a particularly fine contemporary carved giltwood frame, bearing maker's label. "WYATT, High Street, Oxford."