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Cyril Wheatley Maplethorpe – President of the Pharmaceutical Society 1963-1965

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Description

Portrait in oils of Cyril Wheatley Maplethorpe (1898–1983), President of the Pharmaceutical Society 1963-1965.
Maplethorpe was also Managing Director of the British pharmaceutical manufacturer Allen and Hanburys Ltd from 1944-1965.
Painted by Anna Katrina Zinkeisen (1901-1976) circa 1974-1975. Framed.

Fact

In the upper left corner of the painting is the arms of the School of Pharmacy of the University of London, with which Maplethorpe had been closely associated.