About this artwork
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artist:Rev. John Thomson of Duddingston (1778 - 1840) Scottish
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title:A Cliff Scene (Fast Castle)
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date created:Unknown
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materials:Oil on canvas
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measurements:41.60 x 49.50 cm; Framed: 54.50 x 61.00 x 7.00 cm
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object type:
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credit line:Purchased 1936
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accession number:NG 1864
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artwork photographed by:Antonia Reeve
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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...
