[Solvay Conference portraits]
A photographic portrait album of physicists gathered for the 1911 Solvay Conference in Brussels, made for the conference and its participants as a record of attendees. The four pictures are sepia studio portraits of bald or greying men in dark suits against plain backdrops, some in oval or circular vignettes with handwritten signatures beneath, offering a designer restrained formal portrait treatments, vignette framing, and signature lettering.
![Picture 1 of 4 from [Solvay Conference portraits] (1911), leaf 17](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-solvayconferenc00solv-17-0.webp)
![Picture 2 of 4 from [Solvay Conference portraits] (1911), leaf 19](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-solvayconferenc00solv-19-0.webp)
![Picture 3 of 4 from [Solvay Conference portraits] (1911), leaf 21](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-solvayconferenc00solv-21-0.webp)
![Picture 4 of 4 from [Solvay Conference portraits] (1911), leaf 33](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-solvayconferenc00solv-33-0.webp)