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Description: | Full seated portrait of John Struthers. Profile, landscape format . Arm on chair back (facing right). Sitter is wearing a black suit and tie. Scatter of books on table covered with heavily brocaded cloth. There is a MD hood over chair. Struthers was Professor of Anatomy (1863-1888) and President of Royal College Surgeons (1895).
"Struthers (1823-99) was Professor of Anatomy at Aberdeen University from 1863-88. 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 | License: | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/Copyright_terms_conditions.shtml | Publisher: | ABDUA University of Aberdeen, Marischal Museum | Rights holder: | 47718 | Temporal: | 1891-1891 | 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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