William Home Lizars
Rev. George Husband Baird, 1761 - 1840. Principal of Edinburgh University
About this artwork
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artist:William Home Lizars (1788 - 1859) Scottish
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title:Rev. George Husband Baird, 1761 - 1840. Principal of Edinburgh University
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date created:1830
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after:Andrew Geddes (1783 - 1844) Scottish
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materials:Line engraving
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measurements:24.10 x 15.00 cm
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object type:
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credit line:Mrs A.G. Macqueen Ferguson Gift 1950
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accession number:UP B 308
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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...