Lincoln's Inn : The Great Hall : The Paintings

There are many paintings in the Great Hall.

Lord Denning

Any law students in the world would have read his judgement

Justice, A Hemicycle of Lawgivers

This painting by G. F Watts show Moses, Ptah, Confucius and Mohammad amongst others

Short Adjourment

It commemorates the occasion when six out of the nine members of the Court of Appeal were benchers of the Inn; and it shows them as they might have been seen any day after lunch in the Benchers' Drawing Room, wearing court dress but no robes. While the painting was in progress, one of the six was elevated to the House of Lords and became Lord Denning; but in his place another bencher of the Inn was appointed, and so the painting includes all seven figures, with that of Lord Denning appropriately in motion towards the door.

Lord Hailsham

Margerat Thatcher

(1925-2013)

Before the Dinner

1979

This was to commemorate the fact that the following were members of Lincoln's Inn:
Prime Minister : Mrs Margaret Thatcher, M.P.,
the Lord Chancellor : Lord Hailsham of St. Marylebone,
the Lord Chief Justice of England : Lord Widgery,
the Master of the Rolls: Lord Denning; and
the Vice-Chancellor : Sir Robert Megarry

Sir Thomas More