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Francis Cranmer Penrose (1817–1903), PRIBA, FRS

Image credit: RIBA Collections

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The commissioning of this portrait from Sargent was largely engineered by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema at a cost of £150. F. C. Penrose (1817–1903) was President of the Royal Institute of British Architects 1894–1996 and brought an unusually high level of scholarship to the presidency. He was dubbed 'the Institute's Athenian', being an academic and historian more than a practising architect. He read mathematics at Magdalene College, Cambridge and rowed in the University Boat Races, 1841–1843. A scholarship took him to Italy and Greece where he studied the theory of dimensional changes in Greek architecture that resulted in his major work 'The Principles of Athenian Architecture' (1851 & 1888). He was the first director of the British School of Archaeology in Athens (1886–1887), having designed the school buildings.

The Royal Institute of British Architects

London

Title

Francis Cranmer Penrose (1817–1903), PRIBA, FRS

Date

1898

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 148 x W 98 cm

Accession number

PCF52

Acquisition method

commissioned by the RIBA, 1898

Work type

Painting

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