Sir George Reid
[Unidentified man]
About this artwork
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title:[Unidentified man]
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accession number:PG 1377
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materials:Oil on canvas
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date created:1898
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measurements:35.10 x 29.20 cm (framed: 37.47 x 31.75 x 8.26 cm)
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credit line:Purchased 1938
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photographer:Antonia Reeve
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…