About this artwork
Hugh Miller was one of the most remarkable intellectuals of Victorian Scotland. The son of a Cromarty fisherman, he was apprenticed to a local stonemason. In 1840 he launched his brilliant journalistic career with the pro-Evangelical newspaper ‘The Witness’. A champion of the new Free Church, Miller simultaneously pursued his research in geology and paleontology and made important contributions to the pre-Darwinian debate on evolution.
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artist:William Brodie (1815 - 1881) Scottish
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title:Hugh Miller, 1802 - 1856. Geologist and author
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date created:Sculpted 1857
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materials:Marble
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measurements:91.30 cm (height)
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credit line:Transferred from the National Gallery of Scotland 1889
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accession number:PG 255
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artwork photographed by:Antonia Reeve
William Brodie
William Brodie
William Brodie was the eldest son of a shipmaster and merchant seaman. He became a plumber but also took evening classes at the Mechanics’ Institute in Aberdeen which offered adult education for manual workers in art and science subjects. Brodie began experimenting with modelling small portraits in...