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The main portrait forms part of a double canvas. The inner work sits over a base canvas of paint and collage in which McRae combines the intellectual content of its subject’s work on the World Wide Web with her own journey to paint Berners-Lee in a flow-chart of preliminary sketches, souvenirs and snatches of conversation. This nimbus from the information age is a playful framing device, nodding to the gilded frames of the Society’s earlier portraits.
The Royal Society
London
Title
Timothy Berners-Lee (b.1955)
Date
2008
Medium
oil, pen, pencil & paper on canvas
Measurements
H 213 x W 190 cm
Accession number
RS.9642
Acquisition method
presented by Dame Stephanie Shirley, 2008
Work type
Painting
The Royal Society
6–9 Carlton House Terrace, London, Greater London SW1Y 5AG England
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