John Singer Sargent's  Professor Ingram Bywater
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 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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