Portrait of Alec Bangham
Date
1985
Sitter
Alec Douglas Bangham (1921 - 2010, British) , Haematologist
Creator
Humphrey Bangham (British) , Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 760mm
width (painting): 660mm
width (painting): 660mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Half-length portrait of a seated Alec Bangham, dressed in a brown suit, white shirt and a red, white and blue cravat. The scientist and “father of liposomes” wears a beard and spectacles. He is seated, the right arm leaning against the back of his chair, the left hand gripping the desktop in front of him.
The background detail of bookshelves and desk includes several items of particular significance to Bangham’s working and family life. Immediately behind the sitter’s head is a large print (by Alec Bangham) of a plate showing negative staining of phospholipids originally published in the Journal of Molecular Biology in 1964. The bookshelves contain three family photographs: of Bangham’s wife, Rosalind (lower left); his grandson Alexander (centre, pinned at an angle); and Daniel Bangham, the sitter’s youngest son (upper right). Below this are colour photographs of Blakeney, Norfolk and of family dinghy sailing. Alec Bangham was an active photographer throughout his life and there is a scatter of additional prints on the desk before him. Only one volume on the bookshelf is identifiable: upper left is a copy of Liposome letters by Alec Bangham (Academic Press, London, 1983).
Alec Bangham was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1977.
The background detail of bookshelves and desk includes several items of particular significance to Bangham’s working and family life. Immediately behind the sitter’s head is a large print (by Alec Bangham) of a plate showing negative staining of phospholipids originally published in the Journal of Molecular Biology in 1964. The bookshelves contain three family photographs: of Bangham’s wife, Rosalind (lower left); his grandson Alexander (centre, pinned at an angle); and Daniel Bangham, the sitter’s youngest son (upper right). Below this are colour photographs of Blakeney, Norfolk and of family dinghy sailing. Alec Bangham was an active photographer throughout his life and there is a scatter of additional prints on the desk before him. Only one volume on the bookshelf is identifiable: upper left is a copy of Liposome letters by Alec Bangham (Academic Press, London, 1983).
Alec Bangham was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1977.
Transcription
H.BANGHAM
Object history
Presented by Alec Douglas Bangham FRS, 2004.
The work was painted for, and owned by Alec Bangham until its transfer to the Royal Society, where it had arrived by February 2004. Correspondence on the presentation and Alec Bangham’s own description of the work is held by the Royal Society. [Letter, A.D.Bangham to the Royal Society, 19 February 2004 in Royal Society provenance file].
The work was painted for, and owned by Alec Bangham until its transfer to the Royal Society, where it had arrived by February 2004. Correspondence on the presentation and Alec Bangham’s own description of the work is held by the Royal Society. [Letter, A.D.Bangham to the Royal Society, 19 February 2004 in Royal Society provenance file].
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