William Home Lizars
John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll and Greenwich, 1678 - 1743. Soldier and statesman
About this artwork
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artist:William Home Lizars (1788 - 1859) Scottish
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title:John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll and Greenwich, 1678 - 1743. Soldier and statesman
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date created:Unknown
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after:Allan Ramsay (1713 - 1784) Scottish
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materials:Stipple and line engraving on paper
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measurements:7.62 x 6.04 cm
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object type:
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credit line:Purchased 1932
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accession number:SP III 4.4
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William Home Lizars
William Home Lizars
In 1802 Lizars was apprenticed to his father who ran an Edinburgh engraving business, before entering the Trustees’ Academy in 1804 as a student of John Graham. In 1808, as he graduated from the Trustees’ Academy, Lizars began exhibiting as a portraitist and genre painter with the Associated...