About this artwork
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artist:William Home Lizars (1788 - 1859) Scottish
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title:Sir Robert Sibbald, 1641 - 1722. Scottish physician and antiquary
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date created:Unknown
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after:John Alexander (1686 - about 1766) Scottish
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materials:Line engraving on paper
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measurements:Height: 2.54 cm
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object type:
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credit line:Purchased 1934
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accession number:SP III 51.1
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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...