William Darling McKay
Field Working in Spring
About this artwork
The scene is set in East Lothian where McKay was born. The women ‘bondagers’, as such workers were called, are removing potatoes from the clamps in which they have been stored for the winter. This image of rural women working the land reveals the influence of the French artist Jean François Millet (1814-1875).
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artist:William Darling McKay (1844 - 1924) Scottish
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title:Field Working in Spring
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date created:1878
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materials:Oil on canvas
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measurements:64.20 x 97.50 cm; Framed: 87.00 x 120.50 x 9.50 cm
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object type:
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credit line:Presented by the Misses Stodart 1926
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accession number:NG 1669
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William Darling McKay
William Darling McKay
William Darling McKay was born in Gifford, East Lothian in 1844. He studied art in Edinburgh before travelling to Holland, where he was greatly influenced by the painters of The Hague School. Like the French Barbizon painters, The Hague painters preferred to work out of doors, concentrating on the...
