Pierre Curie, French physicist Size:XL: 100 x 70cm The sitter is bearded and

The sitter is bearded and wears a black jacket and waistcoat

the men wear dinner-jackets

Richard Briers (left) June Barry and Richard Waring take a break from rehearsals for the new BBC comedy "Brothers in Law" 2nd March 1962

The SS 'Orbita'

(starts Frankfurt on 28th April)

Pierre Curie, French physicist Size:XL: 100 x 70cm The sitter is bearded andPierre Curie, French physicist, (c1924). Pierre Curie (1859 1906) was a pioneer in the study of crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity and radioactivity. In 1898, he and his wife Marie isolated radium from pitchblende. They were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 1903.