National Gallery of Scotland, The Mound, Edinburgh, 1854.
By William Henry Playfair (1790-1857).
A listed.
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National Gallery of Scotland, The Mound, Edinburgh, 1854.
By William Henry Playfair (1790-1857).
A listed.
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National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh.
The Albacini Collection.
A collection of plaster busts, cast from antique originals in Roman collections around the end of the eighteenth century. It was purchased in 1839 for the Trustees' Academy in Edinburgh. The cast collection of the Trustees' Academy had been initiated in 1798. It was acquired in Rome through the painter and dealer Andrew Wilson, from Filippo Albacini. There are over 200 in total of which a small selection are on display.
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National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh.
The Albacini Collection.
A collection of plaster busts, cast from antique originals in Roman collections around the end of the eighteenth century. It was purchased in 1839 for the Trustees' Academy in Edinburgh. The cast collection of the Trustees' Academy had been initiated in 1798. It was acquired in Rome through the painter and dealer Andrew Wilson, from Filippo Albacini. There are over 200 in total of which a small selection are on display.
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National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh.
The Daisy Chain.
William McTaggart (1835-1910).
Oil on canvas, 1863.
In 1863 McTaggart received an important commission from the Dundee textile magnate George Buchan Simpson. An amateur artist himself, he furnished his residence at Broughty Ferry with the best of modern Scottish art. Simpson proved a committed but demanding patron and often insisted on changes in design or tonal range, sometimes even after the public exhibition of commissioned works. This highly worked compositional study, which was submitted as a test piece for Simpson’s final approval, differs slightly from the finished picture Spring (1864) in the Gallery’s collection.
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