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Title:
Sir Louis Sterling
Object name(s):
Picture
Collection:
Senate House Library
Comments:
Sterling (1879-1958), gramophone company manager and industrialist, collected first and fine editions of English literature, which he gave to the University of London in 1956 as the Sterling Library. Further gifts to the University included a trust fund to purchase extra library books, a set of eighteenth-century oil portraits which had formerly belonged to Lord Chesterfield, and a room within Senate House LIbrary. Portrait signed and dated '37. In gilt gesso frame.
Dimension:
100 x 70 cm (ca)
Material:
oil on canvas
Normal location:
Senate House
Object history note:
Gift: Sterling bequest, subject to life interest by Lady Sterling. Collected by Lib. 1963 at request of Lady Sterling’s son, Mr. G.G. Kent (Lib Com min. 341, 24 Oct. 1963)
Object name:
Picture
Object number:
PO-0103
Object production date:
1937
Object production person:
Jagger, David
Person's association:
Artist
Person's birth date:
1891-1958
Person's gender:
M
Person's nationality:
English

Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/2aa540f1-890a-30d8-9a08-00e1fb3c5510

Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC

Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/2aa540f1-890a-30d8-9a08-00e1fb3c5510, Senate House Library, CC BY-NC

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