About this artwork
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artist:William Home Lizars (1788 - 1859) Scottish
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title:Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey, 1773 - 1850. Judge and critic
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date created:Unknown
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after:Colvin Smith (1795 - 1875) Scottish
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materials:Line and stipple engraving on paper (printed chine collé)
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measurements:Plate mark: 32.00 x 24.10 cm
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object type:
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credit line:Mrs A.G. Macqueen Ferguson Gift 1950; transferred from the Scottish National Portrait Gallery
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accession number:P 7594
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William Home Lizars
William Home Lizars
In 1802 Lizars was apprenticed to his father who ran an Edinburgh engraving business, before entering the Trustees’ Academy in 1804 as a student of John Graham. In 1808, as he graduated from the Trustees’ Academy, Lizars began exhibiting as a portraitist and genre painter with the Associated...