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Portrait of John Gillies

John Opie

Art Funded
1939
Dimensions
76 x 63 cm
Presented by
Jane Lillian Hudson Mennell through The Art Fund
Portrait of John Gillies, historian and classicist, half-length, seated, a book in his hands.

Provenance

George Gillies Mennell

Oil on canvas

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