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Description: | 1/2 portrait of John Paterson, facing right. Long light brown/grey hair emerging from black skull cap. Clerical robe, white clerical collar. Right hand holds place in book. Plain brown background. Ovate mount. Paterson left a large legacy to Marischal College in 1762. He lived in London. This painting is possibly a copy? If painted in the early 1760's would coincide with Mossman's time as drawing master at the Colleges in Aberdeen.
"Paterson was a benefactor of Marischal College. In 1762 he left money to support a bursar at Marischal College and to supplement the income of the professor of medicine. Mosman (c.1700-1771), an Aberdeen portrait and occasional landscape painter, studied under Aikman and in Rome with Allan Ramsay under Imperiali. He taught drawing at both King's and Marischal during the 1760's."
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: | 1750-1762 | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Creator: | Mosman, William (?) | Identifier: | http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.e... | Go to resource |
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