David Allan
A Group of Edinburgh Characters
About this artwork
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artist:David Allan (1744 - 1796) Scottish
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title:A Group of Edinburgh Characters
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date created:About 1780
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materials:Pen, black ink and watercolour on two joined sheets of paper
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measurements:15.30 x 27.90 cm
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object type:
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credit line:William Finlay Watson Bequest 1881
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accession number:D 3283
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David Allan
David Allan
Allan was born in Alloa, on the River Forth, and attended the Foulis Academy in Glasgow for seven years. In 1767 he moved to Rome, where he lived for ten years; this was the most successful period of his life. In Rome, Allan painted ambitious historical pictures, portraits, caricatures and genre...