Credit: ©Godfrey Argent Studio
    Image number: RS.21016

    Portrait of Francis Leslie Rose

    Date
    c.1950s
    Sitter
    Francis Leslie Rose (1909 - 1988, British) , Chemist
    Creator
    Walter Bird (1903 - 1969, British) , Photographer
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    Dimensions
    height (print): 205mm
    width (print): 155mm
    Subject
    Description
    Seated portrait of Francis Leslie Rose, inclined to the left as viewed, looking out at the camera, holding his spectacles and smiling. Dressed in a black suit and tie, and white shirt.

    Inscribed with the photographer’s signature in lower left-hand corner.

    Francis Leslie Rose (1909-1988), British chemist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1957. He was awarded the Society’s Leverhulme Medal in 1975 for ‘his distinguished contributions to the application of chemical science to industry’.
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