Portrait of George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham (1920-2002) Size:S: 36 x 28cm February 25

February 25

the prestigious Gordon Bennett Race was held in Southern Ireland

Spitalfields

A muscled man in an apron holds a bicycle with one hand

A satire against the approaching dissolution of the East India Company

Portrait of George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham (1920-2002) Size:S: 36 x 28cm February 25Half length portrait of George Porter, apparently in the President's Office of the Royal Society at Carlton House Terrace. Porter leans against a nineteenth century wooden library table with both hands on the table edge, his folded spectacles held in the right hand. Behind and to the right as viewed, a wooden door. To the right, a collection of laboratory glassware on two shelves. Porter is dressed in a blue grey suit with a white shirt and blue tie