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In the 1890s Holmes was a prolific etcher, influenced by Charles Ricketts. He was the second editor of the Burlington (1903–1909) and Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford (1904–1910). As editor he initiated the Burlington's tradition of campaigning editorials on political issues in the art world. In 1909 he succeeded Lionel Cust as Director of the National Portrait Gallery. In the nineteenth-century tradition he was a member of a dynasty of artist-bureaucrats, and was the last Director of the National Gallery (1916–1928) to combine the post with an active life as a painter of landscapes in watercolour and oil. He was knighted in 1921. This portrait is the only known portrait in oils of Holmes, and has the deceptive air of a self-portrait.

National Portrait Gallery, London

London

Title

Sir Charles John Holmes

Date

1934

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 80.6 x W 64.8 cm

Accession number

3549

Acquisition method

Purchased, 1947

Work type

Painting

National Portrait Gallery, London

St Martin’s Place, London, Greater London WC2H 0HE England

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Artist or maker

George Herbert Buckingham Holland

1901–1987

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