About this artwork
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artist:Rev. John Thomson of Duddingston (1778 - 1840) Scottish
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title:Sir Walter Scott, 1771 - 1832. Novelist and poet
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date created:Dated 1829
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materials:Pencil and watercolour on paper
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measurements:16.00 x 12.90 cm
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object type:
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credit line:Bequeathed by W.F. Watson 1886
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accession number:PG 1678 A
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Rev. John Thomson of Duddingston
Rev. John Thomson of Duddingston
While a divinity student in Edinburgh, Thomson attended the landscape drawing classes held by the Scottish artist Alexander Nasmyth. Although this was his only artistic training, Thomson became a major figure in Scottish Romantic landscape painting, while also maintaining a career as a minister in...