About this artwork
The subject of this portrait was a friend of McIntosh Patrick, who also attended Glasgow School of Art. Dorothea Hannah was from a Scottish-Irish background, who lived in Hungary in the mid-1930s. McIntosh Patrick had won prizes for portraiture at art school and this picture, painted in the year of his graduation, is one of the few surviving portraits of the period. The artist had a natural sense of design, which is shown in this portrait by the way the subject is posed and the use of a strong side-light from the right, which highlights the sitter's features.
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artist:James McIntosh Patrick (1907 - 1998) Scottish
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title:Dorothea Hannah
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date created:1928
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materials:Oil on canvas
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measurements:51.00 x 64.80 cm; Framed: 72.00 x 86.00 x 6.60 cm
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credit line:Purchased 1999
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accession number:GMA 4289
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artwork photographed by:Antonia Reeve
James McIntosh Patrick
James McIntosh Patrick
James McIntosh Patrick was born in Dundee. He displayed a facility for painting and drawing from an early age and went on to study at Glasgow School of Art from 1924 to 1928. By his mid-twenties he had won national recognition as a printmaker of highly detailed landscape panoramas and townscapes....