Sir Arthur Keith
(1866-1955), Museum curator and palaeoanthropologistSitter in 10 portraits
Anatomist and anthropologist; Professor of Physiology, Royal Institution (1918-23); claimed a greater antiquity for Homo Sapiens than had been generally accepted; and was involved in the controversy over the Piltdown Man skull.
by William Rothenstein
pencil, 1928
NPG 4140
by Juliet Pannett
chalk, 1954
NPG 3986
by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, 1921
NPG x67635
by Bassano Ltd
half-plate film negative, 31 May 1939
NPG x156353
by Bassano Ltd
bromide print, 31 May 1939
NPG x83676
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