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The subject is painted seated at a desk or laboratory bench. Hopkins wears a light yellow or cream suit with blue shirt, green tie and a darker green waistcoat. There are two papers in front of the scientist, on a blue blotter. One shows the wavelengths of the absorption band seen by a spectroscope in light which has passed through a solution. Hopkins’ hand rests by a pencil on a pad headed ‘Lepidoporphyrin’, a term coined by him for the pigment found in butterfly wings and the subject of his first paper Royal Society-published paper. ('The pigments of the pieridae: a contribution to the study of excretory substances which function in ornament', in 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London B', vol.186 (1895), pp.661–682).
The Royal Society
London
Title
Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1861–1947)
Date
1938
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 111 x W 99 cm
Accession number
RS.9632
Acquisition method
presented by subscribers, 1938
Work type
Painting
The Royal Society
6–9 Carlton House Terrace, London, Greater London SW1Y 5AG England
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