Pictures, busts, &c.
In the Hall are pictures of King Alfred[226] (modern), Bp. William Smith (founder), Sir Richard Sutton (founder), Joyce Frankland (benefactress, with a sixteenth century watch in her hand), Alexander Nowell (Principal), Bp. Frodsham Hodson (Principal), William Cleaver (Principal), Thomas baron Ellesmere, Dr. John Latham, John Lord Mordaunt (benefactor), Samuel Radcliffe (Principal, two), Sarah Duchess of Somerset (benefactress), Robert Burton, Thomas Yate (Principal), Francis Yarborough (Principal), Bp. Ashurst Turner Gilbert (Principal), Edward Hartopp Cradock (Principal). The Brazen Nose is fixed in a frame beneath the picture of King Alfred. A picture of the first Marquis of Buckingham once here is now in the possession of the representatives of the family.
In the north window at the east end of the Hall are portraits of the two founders, and a face with a grotesque nose, in painted glass. The glass of the south window is modern.
In the Library are busts of Lord Grenville by Nollekens, and of Pitt.
In the Bursary is a second picture of Joyce Frankland.
In the Chapel are an old copy of Spagnoletto’s Entombment of Christ, a copy of Poussin’s Assumption of St. Paul, and busts of the two founders, formerly in niches in the middle of the north side of the Hall outside and engraved in Spelman’s Ælfredi Magni Vita (Oxon. 1678).
On the gateway outside is a metal gilt Nose of a grotesque type, probably derived from the painted glass in the hall.
On the entrance to the hall are two worn busts of Johannes Scotus Erigena and King Alfred.
In the Buttery are pictures of the Child of Hale (John Middleton, d. 1623, a Lancashire man distinguished for size and strength, after whom the Brasenose boat is always named), of Joyce Frankland, and of the Brasenose Boat in about 1825.
In the Principal’s lodgings are pictures of Lord Mordaunt, Bp. Cleaver, and Joyce Frankland.