Alexander Carse
Cottage Interior with Family Sitting at the Fireside - A Boy Playing the Stock and Horn
About this artwork
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artist:Alexander Carse (about 1770 - 1843) Scottish
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title:Cottage Interior with Family Sitting at the Fireside - A Boy Playing the Stock and Horn
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date created:Unknown
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materials:Watercolour on paper
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measurements:28.50 x 41.30 cm
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object type:
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credit line:David Laing Bequest to the Royal Scottish Academy transferred 1910
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accession number:D 1845
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Alexander Carse
Alexander Carse
Carse was an assistant to David Allan before the artist's death in 1796, and undoubtedly received preliminary artistic training from him. Allan's influence on Carse's small, vivacious genre scenes is evident. In 1801, he attended the Trustees' Academy in Edinburgh, but this training did not yield...