Portrait of Albert Einstein (1879-1955) Size:S: 36 x 28cm 'A Christian Martyr'

'A Christian Martyr'

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Portrait of Albert Einstein (1879-1955) Size:S: 36 x 28cm 'A Christian Martyr'Impressionistic 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