Portrait of Geoffrey Ingram Taylor
Date
1965
Sitter
Geoffrey Ingram Taylor (1886 - 1975, British) , Physicist
Creator
Ruskin Spear (1911 - 1990, British) , Painter
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 1014mm
width (painting): 763mm
width (painting): 763mm
Subject
Description
Half-length portrait of Taylor, seated. Taylor is posed with his hands lightly crossed in front of him, with a wristwatch worn on the left arrn. He wears a blue shirt, green tie and jumper with an open grey-green jacket.
Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1919.
Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1919.
Transcription
Ruskin Spear 1965
SIR GEOFFREY TAYLOR by RUSKIN SPEAR
9/32 33
Spear
SIR GEOFFREY TAYLOR by RUSKIN SPEAR
9/32 33
Spear
Object history
Presented by Alfred Maurice Binnie FRS (1901-1986), 1970.
The offer of this picture was made by A.M.Binnie by letter to the Society’s Executive Secretary: “Three years ago Ruskin Spear painted two portraits of G.I.Taylor, of which one hangs in the Department of Applied Mathematics. I am wondering if the Society would care to have the other as a gift...I would buy the picture from the syndicate who acquired it as a holding operation...“ [Letter, A.M.Binnie to D.C.Martin, 17 December 1969. Royal Society provenance file]. The proposed gift was “accepted with gratitude” at a meeting of Royal Society Officers on 15 January 1970 [Royal Society Officers’ Meetings Minutes OMM volume 1969-1972 p.25 OM/8(70) meeting of 15 January 1970] and Binnie was informed by letter on 23 January 1970. [Letter, D.C.Martin to A.M.Binnie, 23 January 1970, Royal Society provenance file Lib/22/4/IK/GH].
The offer of this picture was made by A.M.Binnie by letter to the Society’s Executive Secretary: “Three years ago Ruskin Spear painted two portraits of G.I.Taylor, of which one hangs in the Department of Applied Mathematics. I am wondering if the Society would care to have the other as a gift...I would buy the picture from the syndicate who acquired it as a holding operation...“ [Letter, A.M.Binnie to D.C.Martin, 17 December 1969. Royal Society provenance file]. The proposed gift was “accepted with gratitude” at a meeting of Royal Society Officers on 15 January 1970 [Royal Society Officers’ Meetings Minutes OMM volume 1969-1972 p.25 OM/8(70) meeting of 15 January 1970] and Binnie was informed by letter on 23 January 1970. [Letter, D.C.Martin to A.M.Binnie, 23 January 1970, Royal Society provenance file Lib/22/4/IK/GH].
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