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Description: | 36.0 x 44.0 [c.] ink and sepia inscription on the stretcher "Glasgow Academy Painted / by D. Allan" CRE ALLAN, David; (Scottish; 1744-1796) David Allan studied at the Academy of the Fine Arts, an art school established by Robert and Andrew Foulis in 1754. The Academy was housed in William Adam's New Library building (1744, information from Michael Moss). Allan's picture shows the interior hung with paintings from the Academy's collection of old masters and students are at work copying these as well as working from plaster casts. Exhibitions were held in the Faculty Hall. Among the paintings can be made out a copy of Rubens's Adoration of the Magi, possibly the version later in Christopher Norris's collection. The collection was acquired as a joint venture with the Academy's shareholders, and was liquidated in 1776 in sales at Christie's, and afterwards in Edinburgh. Three works from the collection remain in the Hunterian: a copy of Raphael's Entombment, GLAHA 43782, Jan Cossiers, The Martyrdom of St Catherine, GLAHA 43521, and Hans Horions, The First Meeting of Theagenes and Charicleia, GLAHA 43721 (formerly attributed to Raphael). | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | INTERIOR : GLASGOW : UNIVERSITY : ACADEMY : FOULIS ACADEMY : STUDENT : ART : TEACHING : MG1 2007 : JAMES MOOR : RUBENS TO MACKINTOSH : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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