About this artwork
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artist:Thomas Campbell (1791 - 1858) Scottish
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title:Sir James Gibson Craig, 1765 - 1850. Politician
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date created:Unknown
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materials:Plaster
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measurements:64.20 cm (height)
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object type:
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credit line:Purchased 1887
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accession number:PG 351
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Thomas Campbell
Thomas Campbell
Thomas Campbell had little education and was apprenticed to a marble-cutter on Leith Walk, Edinburgh. In 1815 he was sent to the Royal Academy Schools in London by Gilbert Innes, in whose house Campbell had been putting up a chimneypiece. In 1818 he travelled to Rome, again assisted by Innes, and...