Joshua Smith Sir Charles Bickerton Blackburn, Kt, OBE
oil on board on canvas
105 x 83 cm sight
This portrait by Joshua Smith of Charles Bickerton Blackburn (1874-1972), physician and chancellor of the University of Sydney, is now in the collection of the University of Sydney Union. He was a founder of the University Club and a member of the Union Club from 1903. After twenty-three years, when aged 90, Blackburn retired as chancellor on 12 November 1964.