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1.14 William Richmond, oil
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< Back to Introduction William Blake Richmond’s portrait of Darwin, dating from 1879, celebrated his honorary degree of LL.D (Doctor in Laws), awarded by Cambridge University in 1877. Darwin’s return to his alma mater for the presentation ceremony…
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- … William Blake Richmond’s portrait of Darwin, dating from 1879, celebrated his honorary degree of LL …
- … Senate House . . . and the scene was very animated.’ As Darwin entered the room, he ‘received an …
- … orator, speaking in Latin, elegantly but speciously adapted Darwin’s theories to ‘a passage of …
- … wearing a mortarboard and academic gown from cords over Darwin’s head. Whether the students intended …
- … (son of George Richmond, who had painted the watercolour of Darwin in his youth), received the …
- … of Fine Art at Oxford in this same year. In a letter of 18 June 1879, Darwin told Thiselton …
- … he found it difficult to establish any personal rapport with Darwin during his time at Down House. …
- … The Times critic thought it a ‘noble portrait’; Darwin was ‘wearing his crimson doctor’s gown, …
- … seigniory’. Its reception by the University and the Darwin family was apparently less enthusiastic. …
- … nor the expression are characteristic of my father’. When Emma Darwin saw it for the first time on a …
- … Zoology department of the University. Richmond’s image of Darwin never became familiar and popular …
- … and many photographs had done. One can agree with Francis Darwin that Richmond’s likeness is …
- … Collier for another and very different oil portrait. With Darwin’s death perceived to be not far …
- … News’, Observer (18 Nov. 1877), p. 6. ‘Mr. Darwin at Cambridge’, Nature (22 Nov. 1877), p. …
- … Manchester Guardian (17 May 1880), p. 5. Francis Darwin (ed.), The Life and Letters of Charles …
- … number of the Art Journal, 1902, p. 31. Francis Darwin and A.C. Seward, More Letters of …
- … Press, 1909), p. 3, no. 7. Henrietta E. Litchfield, Emma Darwin, a Century of Family Letters , 2 …
