In recent years, the portrait of a man with a fine Edwardian moustache has looked down on us as we were seated at High Table in Hall. The subject, it transpired, was the writer, and former ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ fellow, William Leonard Courtney, and the artist was Hubert von Herkomer (1849–1914), a British painter born in Bavaria, Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford from 1885–94, and the first president of the Oxford Art Society, established in 1891.

Portrait of William Leonard Courtney (oil on canvass) by Hubert von Herkomer
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