CHURCHILL P. LATHROP

CHURCHILL P. LATHROP, Professor of Art and Director of the Carpenter Galleries, is shown above with a new acquisition of particular importance to Dartmouth. The gentleman in the painting is the second Earl of Dartmouth, William Legge, for whom the College was named. The oil portrait was recently presented to the College by Earle W. Newton, director of the Museum of Arts, Science, and Industry in Bridgeport, Conn. Mr. Newton, an Amherst graduate, has long had an interest in 18th Century art from England, France, and the American colonies. This is the second painting he has given to the College.

The portrait is the work of Nathaniel Hone, a well-known London painter in the 18th century. The date of the painting is 1777. This and the artist's name are scratched into the paint in the upper right hand corner of the work. An inscription on the back of the frame reads as follows: "William, Second Earl of Dartmouth, son and heir of George, Viscount Lewisham, who died vita patris, 1732."

That the painting was done in 1777, during the early years of the College and its closest relationship with the Dartmouth line, makes this work a significant acquisition. The College's only other portrait of the Earl of Dartmouth, hanging in 105 Dartmouth Hall, is a copy of the original by Sir Joshua Reynolds. It is a very good copy, done by Samuel William Reynolds, which was presented to the College in 1829 by the fourth Earl of Dartmouth.