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Description: | Near full portrait of Joseph Hume, standing, with left hand on table. Sitter is wearing a frock coat and Beau Brummel collar. Hume (1775-1855 b), Montrose joined HEIC and made his fortune. Elected Tory MP for Weymouth (1812), turned Whig (1819) and remained MP until his death. Was rector of MC (1824-5) and (1828). He was Lord Rector in 1824. This work seems identical to that described in Scottish National Portraits, 1884 Edinburgh No370. Attributed to John Graham Gilbert RSA and in the possession of Wm Caldwell. Montrose Town Council had portrait of Hume 1911 (Palace of History).
"Hume (1775-1855) was Rector of Marischal College 1824-5 & 1828 and was Lord Rector 1824. Possibly a copy after John Graham Gilbert."
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: | 1820-1840 | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Identifier: | http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.e... | Go to resource |
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