Sir George Reid
Rev. Walter Chalmers Smith, 1824 - 1908. Free Church minister and poet
About this artwork
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artist:Sir George Reid (1841 - 1913) Scottish
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title:Rev. Walter Chalmers Smith, 1824 - 1908. Free Church minister and poet
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date created:About 1894
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materials:Oil on canvas
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measurements:64.80 x 55.80 cm; Framed: 91.44 x 83.82 x 12.70 cm
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credit line:Bequeathed by Miss M.M. Carlyle 1972
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accession number:PG 2207
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Sir George Reid
Sir George Reid
Reid was born in Aberdeen and worked first as a lithographer before moving to Edinburgh in 1862 to study at the Trustees' Academy. In 1866, supported by the Aberdeen collector, John Forbes White, he went to Holland to study under the landscape and genre painter, Gerrit Mollinger. He became a close...