? Chris Beetles Gallery of behalf of the Artist.
Eric Liddell, 1902 - 1945. Athlete and missionary
about 1925
- Scottish Art
This drawing is a study for Soper?s portrait of Eric Liddell, which is also in the National Galleries of Scotland Collections. The portrait was painted in 1925, a year after the runner?s famous victory at the men?s 400 metres at the Paris Olympics. Soper was a family friend and it is no small achievement that he allowed her to paint his portrait as he was a strict evangelical Christian and a pillar of the Scottish Congregational Church, who preached against personal vanity and who disapproved of pictures on religious grounds. No other portraits of him exist.
