The University of Groningen, like many other universities in The Netherlands and Europe, has an important collection of portraits. They hang in the Senate chamber and Faculty rooms of the Academic Building.
New portraits
The university is committed to expanding the collection with portraits of professors from contemporary artists and 15 portraits a year have been added since 2000. More than 100 have been donated in the last seven years. The portraits in the senate chamber form the basis of the collection and here you can find the oldest portraits. As the senate chamber is full, more recent portraits can be found in the different faculty chambers.
The newest portraits can be viewed here
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Collection
At this moment we are hard at work on a new database for our portrait collection. Until this database is finished, a large part of the collection can be searched
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History of the collection
The oldest portraits in the Senate chamber date from 1618. They include the first rectores magnifici and professors, Ubbo Emmius, Hermann Ravensberger, Cornelis Pijnacker and Nicolaus Mulierius. In the nineteenth century a new portrait gallery was opened, which featured portraits of all the professors.
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