And the show includes a portrait by a professor at Vienna's Academy of Art, who is reputed to have turned away a young would-be pupil named Adolf Hitler".Facing the Modern: The Portrait in Vienna 1900" is at the National Gallery in London until January 12th 2014.
Portrait of victim Professor John Davis.
Thirteen years later, in 1889, several University of Pennsylvania medical students collected $750 to commission Eakins for a portrait of their retiring professor of surgery, Dr. D. Hayes Agnew.
And Professional Foul, written for BBC TV, is even more impressive in its portrait of an ethics professor who, having visited Prague to give a lecture and see a football match, returns home "educated by experience".
Music photographer Scarlet Page, daughter of Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page, has taken arresting portraits of Gary Numan, Frank Turner and Professor Green which have a strikingly blurry effect.
I'm thinking, for example, of the savage portrait of the disapproving classics professor Delphine Roux in The Human Stain.
The result is an engaging portrait of the mild-mannered professor, who, even as the crisis engulfs him, marvels that his scholarly discipline "has become a live, fiery thing".
Her mocking portrait of the British Council lecturer Professor Lord Pinkrose was loosely based on Lord Dunsany, sent to occupy the Byron Chair of English at Athens University in 1940.
And indeed, the portrait Kashner draws of his professors, though generally affectionate, isn't a particularly attractive one.
THE current issue of the Yale Alumni Magazine includes a portrait of Irving Fisher, a Yale economics professor in the 1920s and '30s and a giant of his field.
