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The Magdalen Reading
The Magdalen Reading is one of three surviving fragments of a large mid-15th-century oil-on-panel altarpiece by the Early Netherlandish painter Rogier van der Weyden. The panel, originally oak, was completed some time between 1435 and 1438 and has been in the National Gallery, London since 1860. It shows a woman with the pale skin, high cheek bones and oval eyelids typical of the idealised portraits of noble women of the period. She is identifiable as the Magdalen from the jar of ointment placed
- James Townley (St John's)
- Nicholas Udall (Corpus Christi)
- Oscar Wilde (Magdalen)
- Peter Wildeblood (Trinity)
- Emlyn Williams (Christ Church)
- William Wycherley (The Queen's)
- Elizabeth Young, Lady Kennet (Somerville)
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- Richard Adams (Worcester) author of "Watership Down"
- Giles Andreae creator of Purple Ronnie and Edward Monkton
- W. V. Awdrey (St Peter's and Wycliffe Hall) creator