Group portrait of six scientists and engineers
Date
1911
Sitter
William Duddell (1872 - 1917, British) , Electrical engineer
Charles Vernon Boys (1855 - 1944, British) , Physicist
Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton (1863 - 1930, British) , Electrical engineer
Henry Reginald Arnulph Mallock (1851 - 1933, British) , Engineer
Robert Williams Wood (1868 - 1955, American) , Physicist
Robert John Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh (1875 - 1947, British) , Physicist
Charles Vernon Boys (1855 - 1944, British) , Physicist
Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton (1863 - 1930, British) , Electrical engineer
Henry Reginald Arnulph Mallock (1851 - 1933, British) , Engineer
Robert Williams Wood (1868 - 1955, American) , Physicist
Robert John Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh (1875 - 1947, British) , Physicist
Creator
Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton (1863 - 1930, British) , Electrical engineer
Object type
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 151mm
width (print): 200mm
height (mount): 245mm
width (mount): 293mm
width (print): 200mm
height (mount): 245mm
width (mount): 293mm
Subject
Description
Half-length portraits of: (standing, left to right) William Du Bois Duddell, Charles Vernon Boys and A A Campbell Swinton; with (sitting, left to right) Arnulph Mallock, Robert Williams Wood and Robert John Strutt (later Lord Rayleigh). All are dressed in evening wear and appear against an office background with an electric light visible above. Mallock and Wood are holding cigars.
The reverse has a paper label inscribed in ink with the names of the sitters and the date, ‘1911’.
William Du Bois Duddell was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1907.
Sir Charles Vernon Boys was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1888.
Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1915.
Arnulph Henry Reginald Mallockr was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1903.
Robert Williams Wood was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 1919.
Robert John Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1905.
Provenance: Provenance unknown.
Print mounted on textured brown card with a lighter, buff border around the photograph.
The reverse has a paper label inscribed in ink with the names of the sitters and the date, ‘1911’.
William Du Bois Duddell was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1907.
Sir Charles Vernon Boys was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1888.
Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1915.
Arnulph Henry Reginald Mallockr was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1903.
Robert Williams Wood was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 1919.
Robert John Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1905.
Provenance: Provenance unknown.
Print mounted on textured brown card with a lighter, buff border around the photograph.
Object history
A print of this photograph, with other scientific portraits, was exhibited at the Royal Society conversazione, 15 May 1929, by A. A. Campbell Swinton.