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Person
Authorized form of name
Gunn, James (1893-1964), artist
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- Sir Herbert James Gunn RA RP
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Description area
Dates of existence
30 June 1893– 30 December 1964
History
A Scottish landscape and portrait painter. Gunn's paintings are on show in a number of galleries and his 1953 portrait of Queen Elizabeth II is in the Royal Collection. He also painted notable portraits of King George V, Agnes Catherine Maitland (now in Somerville College's dining hall), and also of Harold Macmillan, in his role as Chancellor of Oxford University. He was elected President of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in 1953, a post he held until his death.