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Description: | 1/2 portrait of William Gordon, near facing, white moustache and beard, wearing a large ruff, black skullcap, and holding a red book in his hands. Plain green/brown background.
"Gordon, Professor of Medicine at King's College from 1632-38, was active in the university at the time Jamesone is known to have been completing portraits of other Aberdeen academics. The portraits of Arthur Johnstone and James Sandilands both contemporaries of Gordon, are firmly established as Jamesone's work and the artist may well have painted this portrait around the same time. George Jamesone (1590-1644) was a native of Aberdeen and Scotland's first known painter of real merit. Traditionally he is said to have trained in Antwerp, and his work has strong affinities with the Low Countries."
Author: Morrison,John Date: 2002 Purpose: HA3541 | License: | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/Copyright_terms_conditions.shtml | Publisher: | ABDUA University of Aberdeen, Marischal Museum | Rights holder: | 47718 | Temporal: | 1639-1780 | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Creator: | Jamesone, George | Identifier: | http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.e... | Go to resource |
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