About this artwork
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artist:Kenneth MacLeay (1802 - 1878) Scottish
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title:Boy with a Milk Churn
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date created:Dated 1857
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materials:Pencil and watercolour on paper
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measurements:11.00 x 6.20 cm
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object type:
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credit line:Mrs E.M. Joyce McQueen Gift 1962
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accession number:D 4874.10 D
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Kenneth MacLeay
Kenneth MacLeay
Macleay was born in Oban on the west coast of Scotland. The son of a surgeon, he was already producing competent miniatures on ivory when he entered the Trustees' Academy in Edinburgh in 1822. Within a year he had set up in business as a portrait painter and by 1830 he was the leading miniaturist...
