Sir Daniel Macnee
Mrs John Aitken
About this artwork
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artist:Sir Daniel Macnee (1806 - 1882) Scottish
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title:Mrs John Aitken
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date created:Dated 1849
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materials:Coloured chalk on paper
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measurements:(framed: 70.70 x 58.40 x 5.10 cm)
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object type:
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credit line:Miss Janet M. Aitken Bequest 1942
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accession number:D 4124
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gallery:
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artwork photographed by:Antonia Reeve
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Sir Daniel Macnee
Sir Daniel Macnee
Sir Daniel Macnee was a leading Scottish portrait painter. Born at Fintry, he was brought up in Glasgow where he became a pupil of portraitist and landscapist John Knox. There, he met fellow artists Horatio McCulloch and William Leitch. Macnee and McCulloch briefly worked as snuff-boxes painters at...