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Description: | 1/2 portrait of Mrs Jane Gerard, facing right, with head turned left. The right hand holds a red bound book on lap. Sitter has auburn hair pulled tightly back, and is wearing a three string pearl necklace, sapphire earings, rose at breast, lace cap on back of head, pale blue gown with lace cuffs and trim. Brown background with maroon drape in the left. Married to Alexander Gerard, D.D., Professor of Divinity. Location 1908, KC Senatus Room.
"Wife of Alexander Gerard, Professor of Divinity at Marischal College and prime mover in the reform of the curriculum there. The portrait is in the manner of David Martin (1737-97), pupil and assistant to Allan Ramsay. If the attribution to Martin is correct the portrait is likely to date from the period following the painters return to Edinburgh in 1785."
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: | 1760-1818 | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Identifier: | http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.e... | Go to resource |
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