Portrait of George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham (1920-2002) Size:S: 36 x 28cm Spitalfields

Spitalfields

A satire against the approaching dissolution of the East India Company

the prestigious Gordon Bennett Race was held in Southern Ireland

the lines of which begin with letters spelling out the subject's name

Portrait of George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham (1920-2002) Size:S: 36 x 28cm SpitalfieldsHalf length portrait of George Porter, apparently in the President's Office of the Royal Society at Carlton House Terrace. Porter leans against a nineteenth century wooden library table with both hands on the table edge, his folded spectacles held in the right hand. Behind and to the right as viewed, a wooden door. To the right, a collection of laboratory glassware on two shelves. Porter is dressed in a blue grey suit with a white shirt and blue tie