About this artwork
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artist:Richard Waitt (1684 - 1733) Scottish
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title:Rev. Ralph Erskine, 1685 - 1752. Secession leader and poet
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date created:1712
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materials:Oil on canvas
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measurements:76.00 x 63.50 x 2.00 cm; Framed: 211.45 x 71.75 x 3.81 cm
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credit line:Given by the family of the late Walter Wardlaw 1934
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accession number:PG 1239
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Richard Waitt
Richard Waitt
Waitt specialised in portraiture, but began his career as a decorative painter. His first recorded work is a coat of arms for the Earl of Hopetoun. He may have trained in the Edinburgh studio of the painter John Scougal and seems to have produced several different types of painting, notably still...
