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Harvard now possesses four of Mr. Hopkinson's portraits in oil. In addition to the painting of President Eliot there is one of Professor George Herbert Palmer '64, now hanging in the living room of the Harvard Union, one of Professor Charles Eliot Norton '46 and one of Professor Barrett Wendell '77. These two are in the Faculty Room in University Hall where it is probable the Eliot painting will be placed...
...portrait of President Eliot presented to Harvard by students of all he departments of the University to commemorate his ninetieth birthday last week, is the work of Dr. Eliot's nephew, Mr. C. S. Hopkinson '91, of Cambridge, perhaps the best known living artist who is a graduate of Harvard...
...students of all Departments of the University," said Professor Forbes, "have united together in making a gift which is of great value to the University. Charles Hopkinson, nephew of President Eliot, has painted the picture which will probably be the best representation of the impressive presence of President Eliot that will go down to posterity...
...There have been other portraits of President Eliot including Mr. Sargent's full length portrait," he continued, "but none of them, it is fair to say, have caught the spirit of Mr. Eliot so successfully as Mr. Hopkinson's. The general effect of the picture is columnar. The President sits erect looking straight out of the picture with the characteristic frank, forcible and penetrating look in his eyes. The picture was painted three years ago, and so it represents President Eliot as an older man than the average graduate remembers him, but as we all know time has shot...
...portrait of President Eliot by his nephew, Charles Hopkinson, will be presented in Sanders Theatre by the undergraduates to the University. It will be permanently hung in the Faculty Room of University Hall, the portrait gallery of Harvard...