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Tim,
My father teaches medical illustration at Johns Hopkins. The department invited me up a few years ago to look at the portraits that hang in various Hopkins buildings. When we walked into the medical library, there was a huge canvas of four learned gentlemen, probably wearing robes. I found it quite odd that one of them was placed in shadow, distinctly subordinated to the others, as if Sargent had some reason to cut him out. Nobody in our party knew why. It was also interesting to see the students giving us curious glances for taking an interest in such an old painting.
I'd be interested to know the Oxford robes story.
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