Two Women and a Boy (study for 'The Covenanters Preaching')
About this artwork
This is a study for the painting 'The Covenanters' Preaching' (Glasgow Museum and Art Gallery) which was exhibited in 1830. Harvey was particularly interested in the religious history of the seventeenth-century Covenanters. Other subjects included 'The Covenanters' Baptism' (Aberdeen Art Gallery), 'The Battle of Drumclog' (Glasgow Museum and Art Gallery) and 'Covenanters' Communion' (NG 608). He treated these historical subjects as genre scenes, putting emphasis on facial character and expression, studied, as here, from posed models.
Updated before 2020
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artist:Sir George Harvey (1806 - 1876) Scottish
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title:Two Women and a Boy (study for 'The Covenanters Preaching')
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date created:About 1830
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materials:Oil on board
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measurements:33.60 x 26.30 cm; Framed: 46.50 x 39.60 x 2.70 cm
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object type:
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credit line:Presented by Mrs Ethel M Pearse 1947
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accession number:NG 2091
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artwork photographed by:Antonia Reeve
Sir George Harvey
Sir George Harvey
Harvey is best known for his Scottish history painting and contemporary narrative scenes. Many of his subjects, designed to invite an emotional response, appear rather sentimental to modern viewers but were extremely popular when first exhibited. Harvey was a student of Sir William Allan's at the...
