William Home Lizars
The Old Library in the Quadrangle of the Old College, University of Edinburgh
About this artwork
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artist:William Home Lizars (1788 - 1859) Scottish
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title:The Old Library in the Quadrangle of the Old College, University of Edinburgh
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date created:Unknown
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materials:Engraving on paper
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measurements:Sheet : 21.80 x 31.40 cm
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object type:
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credit line:Transferred from the Scottish National Portrait Gallery
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accession number:P 8009
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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...