Portrait of Helen Kemp Porter
Date
1958
Sitter
Helen Kemp Porter (1899 - 1987, British) , Plant physiologist
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Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 89mm
width (print): 62mm
width (print): 62mm
Subject
Description
Head and shoulders portrait of Helen Kemp Porter facing forward and looking directly to viewer. She wears beaded necklace, spectacles and short tightly curled hair. She is lit by light from the window on the left hand side. Possibly taken in her office at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, Kensington.
Inscribed on the back in pen ‘1958’.
Helen Kemp Porter (1899-1987) was a plant physiologist and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1956.
Inscribed on the back in pen ‘1958’.
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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