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Joshua Smith Wallace C Wurth, CMG

oil on canvas

118 x 98 cm

This portrait by Joshua Smith of administrator Wallace Charles Wurth (1896-1960) is now in the collection of the University of New South Wales. Wurth was president of the university from 1949 to 1955 (before the position of chancellor was introduced) then chancellor from 1955 to 1960.