- Artist
- Ambrose McEvoy 1877–1927
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 1283 × 1022 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by Francis Howard through the National Loan Exhibitions Committee 1914
- Reference
- N02999
Catalogue entry
N02999 W. A. JOWITT, LATER EARL JOWITT 1912
Inscr. ‘McEvoy’ b.r.
Canvas, 50 1/2×40 1/4 (128·5×102·5).
Presented by Francis Howard through the National Loan Exhibitions Committee 1914.
Exh: National Portrait Society, 1914 (75); International Society, autumn 1914 (among works purchased for presentation to the Tate); R.A., Late Members, winter 1928 (543).
Lit.: Johnson, 1919, I, p.3, repr. pl.26; ‘Wigs’, 1923, pp.16 and 63, as painted in 1912, repr. pl.21.
Repr: Gleadowe, 1924, pl.11.
William Allen Jowitt, 1st Earl Jowitt, was a leading lawyer and politician. Born 15 April 1885, he was educated at Marlborough, New College, Oxford, and the Middle Temple; he took silk in 1922. In 1929 he left the Liberal Party and became Attorney-General under Ramsay Macdonald until 1931. Between 1940 and 1945 he held various government offices and on the Labour victory of 1945 he became Lord Chancellor, a post he retained until the fall of the Labour Government in 1951; he was Leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords from 1952 until 1955. A Trustee of the Tate Gallery 1947–53, he served as Chairman 1951–3. He died on 16 August 1957.
Another portrait by McEvoy of Lord Jowitt was exhibited at the Leicester Galleries, May–June 1927 (59), as painted in 1913.
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II
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