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Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey (1898–1968), Provost (1962–1968)

Henry Marvell Carr (1894–1970)

The Queen's College, University of Oxford

Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey (1898–1968), Provost (1962–1968)

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A replica by Carr of his own portrait of Lord Florey as President of the Royal Society. Florey was an experimental pathologist and developer of penicillin. He was born in Adelaide, studied at the University of Adelaide and was a Rhodes Scholar. He was a Fellow of Lincoln College and Professor of Pathology, Oxford. He became a FRS in 1941, was knighted in 1944 and received the Nobel prize in 1945. He was Provost of Queen's College in 1962, Chancellor of the Australian National University in 1965 and President of the Royal Society in 1960. The artist, Henry Carr, was a landscape and portrait painter. Born in Leeds, he studied at Leeds and at the Royal College of Art.

The Queen's College, University of Oxford

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Title

Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey (1898–1968), Provost (1962–1968)

Date

1968

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 75 x W 62 cm

Accession number

103

Acquisition method

commissioned, 1968

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

signed and dated LR

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Henry Marvell Carr

1894–1970

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