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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 The Victoria Art Gallery is a public art museum in Bath, Somerset, England. It was opened in 1900 to commemorate Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee. It is a Grade II* listed building and houses over 1,500 objects of art including a collection of ...
in Bath,
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and
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in London, the Royal Shakespeare Company, Cheltenham Art Gallery,
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, and the
Royal Albert Memorial Museum Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM) is a museum and art gallery in Exeter, Devon, the largest in the city. It holds significant and diverse collections in areas such as zoology, anthropology, fine art, local and overseas archaeolo ...
, 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 William Archibald Spooner (22 July 1844 – 29 August 1930) was a British clergyman and long-serving Oxford don. He was most notable for his absent-mindedness, and for supposedly mixing up the syllables in a spoken phrase, with unintentionall ...
, which hangs in the Hall at New College, Oxford, where Spooner was Warden; it can be found at *.


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* 1869 births 1956 deaths 19th-century English painters English male painters 20th-century English painters English portrait painters 20th-century English male artists 19th-century English male artists {{England-painter-stub