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Description: | The fine art collection of the University comprises over 100 portraits; over 300 other oils, watercolours, prints, drawings and photographs; and around 40 sculptures and busts. The collection contains works dating from the 16th century to the present day. It features works by artists including Sir Henry Raeburn, David Wilkie, David Martin, William Quiller Orchardson and contemporary artists Alan Davie, Elizabeth Blackadder and Robin Gillanders, among others. The portraits include images of individuals innately connected to the University’s history and identity and were in many cases commissioned by the University itself or donated by friends and alumni, including the subjects themselves. They include Chancellors, Principals, Professors, Rectors, alumni and benefactors of the University. Of particular interest are: the portrait of Archbishop Sharp which, after conservation, was established as an original work by Sir Peter Lely (c.1666); and the portrait of Francis Nicoll (Principal of the United College) by Sir Henry Raeburn (1814). Within the fine art collection are the Pilgrim Trust 'Recording Scotland ' Collection (consisting of around 130 works, gifted to the University in 1953), which is an artistic record of Scotland during the Second World War; and the Harry and Marjory Boswell Art Collection, which was established and endowed by the Boswell family to enable the University to make annual purchases of Scottish art.
The fine art collection is a material record both of the history of Scottish art and the techniques of particular artists, and in the portraits, of individuals who have been an integral part of the social, economic, political, intellectual and cultural life of Scotland. | Subjects: | PORTRAIT photograph fine art Decorative and Applied Art BOSWELL COLLECTION PHOTOGRAPHY print sculpture BUST Scotland Art PILGRIM TRUST Recording Scotland painting | Source: | University of St Andrews | Address: | KY16 9AJ | Creator: | Scottish Arts Council | Contributor: | University of St Andrews | Identifier: | HC:C31 | Language: | en-GB | Relation: | MC:C48 |
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