John Singer Sargent's Professor Ingram Bywater

Professor Ingram Bywater John Singer Sargent -- American painter Exhibited 1901 Tate Gallery, London Oil on canvas 147.3 x 97.2 cm Bequeathed by Mrs Ingram Bywater 1914 N03012 Jpeg: Tate Gallery, London
Ingram Bywater (1840-1914) was a professor of Greek at Oxford from 1893 to 1908. He was a very discerning collector of early editions of Greek and Latin classical texts and of works relating to the history of classical scholarship. Again, Sargent paints his subject right in his element.

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Tate Gallery, London

See the year in review 1900-1901

Created 8/2/2001