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Alan Fletcher with Euphonium

The work depicts the Scottish artist Alan Robert Tregoning Williams Fletcher (1930-58). Born in the Anderston district of Glasgow on 1930-03-27,…

Balgorkar

According to the artist the work is directly inspired by (RSA 1994.001) ‘The Weird Wife…’ by James Giles and depicts the same stone circle at…

Bather

Calf

Cottage Scene

Eternal Joy/ Child’s Play

The painting was made after the artist returned from her Kinross Scholarship which took her to Florence between October and December 2018. The artist…

Giardini Pincio

The view is of the Clock Fountain in the Pincio Gardens in Rome.…

"Gregalach", My Prince - St Germaine, Winner Grand National 1929, Owned by Mrs Gemmell

Judith

Lord Rockville, Dr Adam Smith and Commissioner Brown

This is an early proof of the published print 'Lord Rockville, Dr Adam Smith and Commissioner Brown' which features three men standing wearing frock…

Making Straw Ropes

The work was painted in the artist's studio at 1 Alva Street, Edinburgh, which had previously been used by Joseph Denovan Adam RSA from c.1875-77.

Man beside a table three quarter length

The secondary support is inscribed at bottom right J G Gilbert Esq, which may suggest the identity of either the artist or more possibly the sitter,…

Man standing three quarter length with view of a distant church

MacNee exhibited in the 1847 RSA Annual Exhibition (cat.24) a Portrait of Rev Samuel Miller of Free St Matthew's, Glasgow. This appears to be the…

Portrait of an unidentified man standing beside his horse

Robert Louis Stevenson as a child with his mother

Vide notes below which suggests John Moffat, engraver and photographer, at 3 Nicholson Square, Edinburgh was the probable photographer. He is listed…

Sheila in the scullery

The woman depicted was Sheila Pratt, the artist's then girlfriend according to Axel Wendelberger in an e-mail to RSA Collections curator Sandy Wood on…

Sketch of ecclesiastical ruins with a carved cross

The scene is not identified, but shows a ruined church or abbey with adjacent secular dwellings and a free-standing cross. The topography rules out…

Study of a painter, standing

The Examination of Shakespeare by Sir Thomas Lucy on a Charge of Deer Stealing

Harvey's original oil painting is dated 1846 and is not the one of the same title in the collection of the National Gallery of Scotland, NG2090, which…

The First Ear-Ring

A contemporary advertisement taken out by Moon in the weekly publication The Torch, on Saturday 19 May 1838 lists a number of “Splendid Prints in…