Ethel A Jones
Peter Greenham, (1909–1992)
Date: Unknown
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Donor: Unknown
About the sitter
Ethel Jones originally studied at Somerville from 1900 to 1903. She later held the Mary Somerville Research Fellowship.
(Somerville for Women p94: Re WWI: ‘College raised a subscription to enable the Mary Somerville research fellow, Ethel Jones, to undertake a short training at Guy’s Hospital before working as a nurse and interpreter with the French Red Cross at Yvetot, where her colleagues included the librarian, Miss Kempson.’)
About the artist
Painter and teacher. Educated at Dulwich College, he won a scholarship to read history at Oxford – although he then read English. He became a schoolmaster in Oxford but continued to paint, including portraits of Sir Isaiah Berlin, Dr F R Leavis and Lord Hailsham.
Greenham and his wife lived at Otmoor, Oxfordshire.
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