Portrait of Clive Forster-Cooper
Date
1946
Sitter
Clive Forster-Cooper (1880 - 1947) , Palaeontologist
Creator
Unknown, Photographer
After
Meredith Frampton (1894 - 1984, British) , Painter
Object type
Image reference
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 230mm
width (print): 285mm
width (print): 285mm
Subject
Description
Half-length seated portrait of Sir Clive Forster-Cooper studying fossils in his office at the Natural History Museum. Measuring tools, reference books and a small collection of fossils are shown on the desk in front of him. The original floor plan for the Natural History Museum can be seen on the wall behind him, other documents and letters care also visible in the background. Forster-Cooper wears a dark suit and round spectacles. This monochrome photograph is after a colour portrait painted by Meredith Frampton now in the Tate collection.
Inscribed below: ‘C.Forster Cooper/Meredith Frampton. R.A/ Royal Academy 1946.’
Sir Clive Forster-Cooper (1880-1947), British palaeontologist and Director of the Cambridge University Museum of Zoology and the Natural History Museum, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1936.
Inscribed below: ‘C.Forster Cooper/Meredith Frampton. R.A/ Royal Academy 1946.’
Sir Clive Forster-Cooper (1880-1947), British palaeontologist and Director of the Cambridge University Museum of Zoology and the Natural History Museum, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1936.