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Description: | 3/4 portrait of Sir William Duguid Geddes, seated, facing right, with left hand supporting head, whike the right hand is holding a book on lap. Seated at table with plain red cloth, books and an inkpot on it. He has receding long grey hair, long sidewhiskers, and is wearing a black academic robe, suit and white shirt. It has a dark brown background. Geddes was Professor of Greek at King's College from 1855 and Principal of the University from 1885.
"Geddes was professor of Greek at King's College from 1855 and principal of the University from 1885. 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. Reid and J.F. White were close friends with Geddes."
Author: Morrison,John Date: 2002 Purpose: HA3541
Acquisition source: Geddes, Alexander | License: | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/Copyright_terms_conditions.shtml | Publisher: | ABDUA University of Aberdeen, Marischal Museum | Rights holder: | 47718 | Temporal: | 1874-1874 | 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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