Portrait of Albert Einstein (1879-1955) Size:S: 36 x 28cm Metopium toxiferum

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Russell (usually depicted as a boy)

Crowns and (Louis) Napoleon are both references to coins of the two countries

with horses led around the courtyard in the background

Marc's chauffeur

Portrait of Albert Einstein (1879-1955) Size:S: 36 x 28cm Metopium toxiferumImpressionistic half length portrait of Einstein seated against a brown, sketchily rendered backdrop, wearing a plain dark brown suit and black tie. The painting shows the scientist during the earliest period of his worldwide fame, following the Eddington Dyson 1919 eclipse expedition which produced confirmation of relativity theory and the award of the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics. Albert Einstein was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in