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Emily Penrose Francis Helps Date: 1922 Medium: Oil on canvas Donor: Commissioned About the sitter About the artist Further information Eminent Somervillians – Somerville College Oxford – Page 4

Agnes Maitland Herbert James Gunn Date: c.1930 Medium: Oil on canvas Donor: Katherine Pease, 1937 About the sitter Miss Agnes Maitland,Principal 1889–1906 “…following up grace and culture with efficiency, and transforming with what almost amounted to a genius for administration a Hall of Residence into a fully grown College.” Vera Farnell, A Somervillian Looks Back, (1948), p? About the artist… Read More »Agnes Maitland

Madeline Shaw Lefevre George Percy Jacomb-Hood Date: 1890 Medium: Oil on canvas Donor: Unknown About the sitter “[This portrait] was painted for the College on her retirement, by Jacomb-Hood, and was subscribed for by members of the Council and the students who had been at Somerville during her reign. She sat for it three or four times a week, and… Read More »Madeline Shaw Lefevre

Portrait of Mary Somerville as a young woman John R.A. Jackson (1778-1831) Date: Medium: Oil on canvas Donor: Mr Fairfax Murray About the sitter About the artist Further information

Proceed towards the Dining Hall and enter it.

First portrait of Louise Jacob Epstein Date: 1932 Medium: Bronze Donor: Unknown About the sitter About the artist Further information

Turn around (to your right) and walk along the corridor towards the Dining Hall. Pause at the sculpture of a girl on your left.

Mrs Humphrey Ward Lucy Graham-Smith Date: 1889 Medium: Pastel Donor: Unknown About the sitter About the artist Further information Eminent Somervillians – Somerville College Oxford – Page 2

As you reach the top of the stairs, turn slightly right, and pause on the landing to view the next two paintings.