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The subject is painted seated at a desk or laboratory bench. Hopkins wears a light yellow or cream suit with blue shirt, green tie and a darker green waistcoat. There are two papers in front of the scientist, on a blue blotter. One shows the wavelengths of the absorption band seen by a spectroscope in light which has passed through a solution. Hopkins’ hand rests by a pencil on a pad headed ‘Lepidoporphyrin’, a term coined by him for the pigment found in butterfly wings and the subject of his first paper Royal Society-published paper.
The Royal Society
London
Date
1938
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 111 x W 99 cm
Accession number
RS.9632
Acquisition method
presented by subscribers, 1938
Work type
Painting
The Royal Society
6–9 Carlton House Terrace, London, Greater London SW1Y 5AG England
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