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The Late Celebrated Scotch Musician, Niel Gow

Print
12/08/1815 (published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Three-quarter length portrait of Niel Gow, directed to front and seated in a chair, wearing plaid breeches and stockings and playing the violin.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleThe Late Celebrated Scotch Musician, Niel Gow (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Mezzotint on paper
Brief description
Print, three-quarter length portrait of Niel Gow. Mezzotint by William Say after Henry Raeburn, 1815.
Physical description
Three-quarter length portrait of Niel Gow, directed to front and seated in a chair, wearing plaid breeches and stockings and playing the violin.
Dimensions
  • Sheet height: 55.3cm
  • Sheet width: 40.5cm
Measured by SH 13/06/2011
Content description
Portrait of a musician playing the violin.
Style
Marks and inscriptions
'Painted by Henry Raeburn Esqr. R.A. London, Published 12 August, 1815, by Thos. Macdonald, Poets Gallery, 39 Fleet St. Engraved by W. Say, Engraver to H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester. This Portrait of the Late Celebrated Scotch Musician, Neil Gow, is by Permission most respectfully Dedicated to His Grace John Duke of Atholl, K. T. &c. &c. &c. By His Graces Most Obedient and Obliged Humble Servant / Thos. Macdonald.' (Lettered)
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Ward-Jackson, Peter, Italian Drawings Volume I. 14th-16th century, London, 1979, p. 164-165. The text is as follows: The Adoration of the Shepherds Inscribed on the back in red ink in a modern hand 'No. 40. 10/71' and again in pencil 'Angelo Bronzino' Black chalk 71 X 7 7/8 (196 x 199) 2287 PROVENANCE Sir T. Lawrence (Lugt 2445); S. Woodburn (sale, Christie, 4-8 June 1860, unidentified lot, bought for the Museum) Formerly catalogued under Bronzino; attributed to Tosini by Pouncey and, as he subsequently discovered, connected with a picture in the Museo Civico at Udine. In the picture the artist substituted a landscape and a ruined stone house for the rustic hut, and the figures on the left are differently grouped. But the shepherd raising his cap is there, so is the kneeling Virgin, flanked by two angels, and the Child lying on the ground. The pose of the angel on the right, with hands raised, is almost the same in the picture as in the drawing; and the little separate sketch of St Joseph kneeling, with his hands crossed on his breast, in the bottom left-hand corner of the drawing was used in the picture instead of the kneeling shepherd.
Collection
Accession number
22987

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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