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| Keywords: SirJohnPopham.jpg author en Image shown on this file apparently reversed Text from HLS website http //www law harvard edu/news/bulletin/backissues/summer99/article8 html The portrait of Sir John Popham chief justice of the King ™s Bench during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I returned to the HLS Art Collection this spring i e 1999 after extensive restoration his scarlet robe redder than it has been in years Popham whose likeness now hangs in the Caspersen Room in Langdell Hall presided over some of the most notable political cases of his day including the treason trials of the Earl of Essex 1601 and Sir Walter Raleigh 1603 The oil-on-panel portrait one of three paintings of Popham known to exist was completed in 1602 by an unknown artist and acquired in 1931 for HLS by Dean Roscoe Pound When the painting was sent to the Straus Center for Conservation at the Fogg Art Museum the paint was flaking and the varnish was badly discolored Previous cleanings had worn away layers of paint and scoured away detail some of which cannot be retrieved But painting conservator Teri Hensick removed layers of discolored varnish and overpaint and knit back together the image using watercolors and other reversible paints The eighteenth-century Kent frame was given new life by conservator Susan Jackson who replaced missing rosettes and applied new gold leaf 1602 oil on panel Harvard Law School Art Collection http //www lexscripta com/graphix/raleigh/popham jpg other versions PD-old-100 DEFAULTSORT 1602; John Popham 17th-century unidentified painters John Popham 1602 paintings in the United States 1602 portrait paintings 17th-century oil on panel paintings in the United States 17th-century oil portraits of standing men at three-quarter length in ceremonial robes 17th-century portrait paintings in the United States Golden painting frames Portrait paintings with brown background Red and white ceremonial robes of the United Kingdom Ear Ornament | ||||
