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    Image number: RS.9543
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    Portrait of James Jeans

    Date
    1924
    Sitter
    James Hopwood Jeans (1877 - 1946, British) , Mathematician
    Creator
    Philip Alexius de László (1869 - 1937, Hungarian) , Painter
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (painting): 890mm
    width (painting): 660mm
    Subject
    Description
    Half length portrait, seated, the right hand gripping the arm of his chair. Looking directly to the viewer, Jeans wears a grey suit, white shirt and blue tie.

    James Jeans was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1906.
    Transcription
    de Laszlo 1924
    SIR JAMES JEANS, O.M., F.R.S. (1877-1946) SECRETARY 1919-29. by P.A.DE LASZLO on permanent loan from Lady Jeans, 1982
    Object history
    Presented by Lady Jeans, 1982.

    Recorded in Officers’ Minutes: “Accepted with gratitude an offer by Lady Jeans to place a portrait of Sir James Jeans by de Laszlo on permanent loan with the Society.” [Royal Society Officers’ Meetings Minute Book, 1981-1987, OM/44(82), p.31, meeting of 1 April 1982].
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