Portrait of a boy, full-length, in Highland dress, with a musket in his left hand and a partridge in his right

细节

Circle of Sir John Watson Gordon, R.A. (Edinburgh 1790-1864)
Portrait of a boy, full-length, in Highland dress, with a musket in his left hand and a partridge in his right
oil on canvas
49½ x 35½ in. (125.6 x 92 cm.)

来源

with Oscar and Peter Johnson, London, 1971, as Sir John Watson Gordon where purchased by the family of the present owners.

出版

The Glasgow Herald, 'Mystery of a boy in Macduff Tartan', 25 August 1971 with a suggested tentative attribution to Sir Colin Watson Gordon.

拍品专文

although invoiced to the family of the present owner as by Sir Colin ,
When purchased by the family of the present owners, the invoice records the artist as Sir Colin Watson Gordon and identifies the sitter and the location as James Duff, 5^thEarl of Fife, in McDuff dress tartan, the town of Paisley with the river Cart, seen from the north looking south, with the hills of Renfrewshire in the distance.