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Description: | 3/4 portrait of Charles Gordon, Marquis of Huntly XI, standing facing right. The man has a dark brown waxed moustache, long side whiskers and hair (near bald). He is wearing a dark blue suit, tie, white butterfly collar, and a LLd gown tied at front. His right hand is resting at hip pocket, while the left hand is resting on table. Plain red background.
"Gordon (1847- ), the premier Marquis of Scotland, was elected Rector in 1890,93 & 96 and presided over the admission of women as students for the first time officially in 1894. James Coutts Michie (1861-1919) was born in Aboyne and studied under Joseph Farquharson, at the Trustees Academy in Edinburgh and in Paris with Carolus Duran. A key member of the Aberdeen Artists' Society from the late 1880's he settled in London from 1893. Coutts Michie himself donated the portrait."
Author: Morrison,John Date: 2002 Purpose: HA3541
Acquisition source: Michie, J Coutts | License: | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/Copyright_terms_conditions.shtml | Publisher: | ABDUA University of Aberdeen, Marischal Museum | Rights holder: | 47718 | Temporal: | 1896-1896 | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Creator: | Michie, J Coutts ARSA | Identifier: | http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.e... | Go to resource |
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