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Description: | 1/2 portrait of William Alexander. Ths sitter is facing right and wearing a dark coat and white high collared shirt. His beard is sandy coloured, with hair brushed to the right. Plain brown background. On Winsor and Newton prepared canvas. Minor restoration SNG 1978. Bulging of canvas due to paint loss minor paint loss, covered by matt retouching; 10 cm from lower edge/71/2 cm from right, large drying cracks exposing white ground layer.
"Alexander was editor of Aberdeen Free Press and author of Johnny Gibb of Gushetneuk. Reid was a personal friend of Alexander and illustrated 'Johnny Gibb' in 1880. George Reid, (1841-1913) trained in Edinburgh, in Holland studying with G.A. Mollinger and J. Israels, and in Paris. Initially a landscape painter he increasingly worked as a portraitist. He is closely associated with John Forbes White, the Aberdeen patron and collector."
Author: Morrison,John Date: 2002 Purpose: HA3541
Acquisition source: Alexander Mrs (?) | License: | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/Copyright_terms_conditions.shtml | Publisher: | ABDUA University of Aberdeen, Marischal Museum | Rights holder: | 47718 | Temporal: | 1877-1877 | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Creator: | Reid, George W Sir RSA | Identifier: | http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.e... | Go to resource |
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