Hugh Goldwin Rivière (1869–1956) was a noted British portraitist. He was one of seven children of Briton Rivière and was of Huguenot descent. Examples of his work are held in a very wide variety of public collections, including the Victoria Art Gallery in Bath,

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and

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in London, the

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, Cheltenham Art Gallery,

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, and the

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, Exeter. His portrait painting of Sir Squire Bancroft and several drawings and prints are in the National Portrait Gallery collection.Search the Collection: Hugh Goldwin Riviere (1869-1956)
National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 2014-01-06. One of his best portraits is that of William Archibald Spooner, which hangs in the Hall at New College, Oxford, where Spooner was Warden; it can be found at *.

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