The Fisher Boy

细节

Sir William McTaggart, R.S.A. (1835-1910)
The Fisher Boy
signed and dated 'McTaggart RSA/1870' (lower left) and signed and inscribed 'The 'Fisher Boy'/Wm McTaggart' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
17¾ x 12¾ in. (45.2 x 32.4 cm.)

来源

with Edmiston's, Glasgow, 5 October 1916.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby Parke Bernet, Toronto, 31 March 1981, lot 173. with The Fine Art Society, London.
The Forbes Collection; Christie's, London, 19 February 2003, lot 223.

出版

J.L. Caw, William McTaggart RSA, 1910, p. 233, as 'The Young Fisher'.

展览

Tokyo, Isetan Museum of Art; Hamamatsu City Museum; The Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery; Daimuru, Museum of Art; The Pre-Raphaelites and Their Times, 1985, no. 67.
Denver, 1999 Broadway; New York, The Forbes Magazine Galleries, Childhood in Victorian England, 1985, no. 2.
New Haven, Yale Center for British Art; Portland, Portland Art Museum; New York, The Forbes Magazine Galleries, Victorian Childhood, 1986-7, pl. 12.
Lancaster; Blackburn; Burnley and Blackpool, The Age of Innocence; Children in Art, 1830-1930, 1989.
Chichester, The Bishop's Palace, Sea, Sail and Shore, 1991, no. 9.

注意事项

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

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Painted in 1870, the year he was elected a full member of the Royal Scottish Academy (a fact he proudly proclaims after his signature), this charming little picture shows McTaggart before he developed the bold impressionistic style for which he is best known.