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Sir William Allan (1782 – 1850) distinguished Scottish historical painter. He lived "for several years in the Ukraine, studying the wild scenery of the steppes, and the still wilder costume and manners of its inhabitants, with a fearless and observant eye." #ScotsStandwithUkraine
@LiberalDespot Hail me an elephant!
This is a Howdah by Robert Home for the King of Oudh decorated with fish, lion and antelope.
@vickraive @phillipsauction Bit more work in this one clearly accounts for price difference - #BriceMarden’s Complements achieves $30,920,000, establishing a #WorldAuctionRecord for the artist.
'Ur ye dancin'?
'Ur ye askin'?
'Am askin'!
'Then am dancin'!
'A quadrille?
'Haud on.'
Painting oak trees 'en plein air' in the 1850s, Sam Bough did not always travel far into Cadzow Forest.
Barncluith, where his close friend Alexander Fraser had his studio, was nearby and handy for a tea brake.
Post-Brexit trade deal with Australia allowing zero-tariff imports of lamb.
John Swinney “A huge threat to Scottish agriculture... devastate the hill farming communities... no self-respecting UK Government could sign this”
Phoebe Anna Traquair (1852-1936) 'Boy and sheep'.
Watercolour of 1877, 'River Mouth at Brodick, Arran' by Norwegian painter Hans Gude (1825 - 1903).
'The Clyde at Bothwell; Autumn Meadow', watercolour of 1946 by Roy Young Ferguson (1907-1981). Born in Motherwell.
Ferguson taught at GSA and exhibited at the Royal Scottish Watercolour Society. He was also a prolific newspaper caricaturist signing these works "eff'.
Print sold by James Lumsden & Son Queen Street Glasgow of 'The United Kingdom'. Though it says,"the largest and most superb Steam Vessel ever built in Europe" I can't find any information about it.
Did the UK sink without trace?
@greenmantle1824 @AbbotsfordScott Ah, thanks.
Just wondered as it is a year since @VisitBritain produced this one that ignored Scottish and Welsh writers and even @stewartbremner who did his best to rectify it missed J M Barrie, John Buchan and Thomas Carlyle who all have houses or museums open.