John Pettie
William Black, 1841 - 1898. Novelist (Study for A knight of the seventeenth century in Glasgow Art Gallery)
About this artwork
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artist:John Pettie (1839 - 1893) Scottish
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title:William Black, 1841 - 1898. Novelist (Study for A knight of the seventeenth century in Glasgow Art Gallery)
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date created:About 1877
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materials:Oil on canvas
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measurements:51.20 x 44.60 cm; Framed: 66.00 x 59.00 x 7.00 cm
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object type:
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credit line:Given by Henry J. Brown 1921
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accession number:PG 932
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John Pettie
John Pettie
In 1855 John Pettie enrolled at the Trustees’ Academy, where he studied for five years under the influential artist and teacher Robert Scott Lauder. An ambitious and hard-working student, Pettie first exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy in 1858, and throughout the 1860s he regularly contributed...
