This canvas that thou here see'st stretched,
It was of the great Wimsey sketched.
Wherein the painter had a strife,
with Nature to outdo the life.
For if he'd somehow caught the "thwack"
that sounded when old Flim had a crack
at bat, the painting would surely spoil
All else that e'er was daubed in oil.
Since he could not, oh lover of Cricket,
Remember, instead, his defense of this wicket.
Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey, 1890-1918, B.A. '12
Requiescat in pace
Formerly hung at Bredon Hall, Duke's Denver, Norfolk this portrait was unveiled at the '22 rededication of this Clubhouse by Her Grace, the Dowager Duchess and by the surviving members of the '12 Balliol First XI.
Image: Earl of Dalhousie John Singer Sargent -- American painter 1900 Private collection
Text in homage to Ben Johnson's, To the Reader (1623)