| Description | Group portrait, showing the Royal Society’s President, Sir William Huggins (centre left), handing the 1903 Davy Medal to Pierre Curie (centre right). Also present are Society Officers, including Joseph Larmor (right). The composition shows the Meeting Room in Burlington House, London, with regalia including the Royal Society’s mace, President’s chair with the coat of arms; the portrait of Sir Isaac Newton by John Vanderbank behind. |