Guercinos in the corridor: in the October 1987 issue Edward McParland wrote a profile of Anne Crookshank, who had just retired as Professor of Art History at Trinity College, Dublin.(From the APOLLO archives)(Biography)

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To lunch with Anne Crookshank in the Upper Lunch Room in Trinity is to observe her in one of her characteristic milieux. The walls of the room are hung with eighteenth- and nineteenth-century college portraits of members of her family. She lunches, appreciating the moderate prices and the excellent food, knowing that she will not dine in college that evening; elected a scholar of the college in 1947, she was denied access then to the scholars' dinner, being a woman. Times have changed, and Trinity's eating habits have, in this respect, become more civilised (or at least more ...

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