McManus, Joanna (Author)
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Volume: 68, no. 3
Issue: 3
Pages: 311-315
After a prompt by a recent communication from Sir Paul Nurse PRS to Fellows regarding the Society's picture collection, the library was presented with a portrait (figure 1) of physicist Albert Einstein FRS (1879--1955). The lively sketch is executed in red chalk (sanguine) on paper. It is signed by both the Danish artist Ivan Opffer (1897--1980) and Einstein (`A. Einstein'), and is dated 1933. The portrait was donated by Professors Deborah and Brian Charlesworth, both of whom are evolutionary biologists and Fellows of the Royal Society. Professor Deborah Charlesworth inherited the drawing from her parents. It was given to her father, John Maltby1 (1910--80), who was primarily an architectural photographer, in lieu of unpaid photography fees. The artist (presumably Opffer himself) took a stack of his portraits to Maltby's studio in Hendon, London, to be photographed. Maltby kept back one drawing until payment was sent, but the money was never forthcoming. In a letter2 to the National Portrait Gallery, London, 1994, Maltby's studio assistant offered the gallery 50 glass slides of images of portraits by Opffer, all of which were photographed by Maltby in the 1930s.
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