Portrait of Helen Kemp Porter
Date
1966
Sitter
Helen Kemp Porter (1899 - 1987, British) , Plant physiologist
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Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 216mm
width (print): 167mm
width (print): 167mm
Subject
Description
Three-quarter length portrait of Helen Kemp Porter, standing in three-quarter profile to the right as viewed, wearing ceremonial robes and tudor bonnet hat. Taken at the ceremony of her appointment to the Fellowship of the Imperial College of Science and Technology.
Inscribed in pen on the back ‘ICST 1966 – The Fellow!’
Helen Kemp Porter (1899-1987) was a plant physiologist and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1956.
Inscribed in pen on the back ‘ICST 1966 – The Fellow!’
Helen Kemp Porter (1899-1987) was a plant physiologist and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1956.
Object history
From a collection of photographs of Arthur St George Joseph McCarthy Huggett and Helen Kemp Porter, presented to the Royal Society for duplication by Jean Adams in June 2016.
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