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Painting
Lieutenant-Colonel Hay MacDowell
Sir Henry Raeburn, (Edinburgh, Scotland, 1756 – 1823, Edinburgh, Scotland)
Raeburn, Henry
Scotland
1756 - 1823
Male
93 x 58 in. (236.2 x 147.3 cm)
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Oil
Oil
ca. 1795
1790
1800
1800-1900, 19th century, George Eastman Collection, men, military, paintings, portraits, uniforms
Painting
Raeburn may have made this painting to commemorate General Hay MacDowell’s 1795 departure from the 57th Regiment of Foot, with which he had served for five years. He would go on to be named commander of the British forces in Madras, India.
The low perspective of the life-sized canvas elevates MacDowell to the status of a hero, while the vivid colors provide animation to an otherwise-static pose. The use of these simple devices to create a monumental effect helps to explain why Raeburn, who had no formal training as an artist, was the preeminent portraitist in Scotland in the late 1700s and early 1800s.
[Gallery label text, 2008]
1968.102
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Painting
Mrs. Johnston of Straiton
Sir Henry Raeburn, (Edinburgh, Scotland, 1756 – 1823, Edinburgh, Scotland)
Raeburn, Henry
Scotland
1756 - 1823
Male
35 x 27 in. (88.9 x 68.6 cm)
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overall
frame
Oil
Oil
ca. 1800
1795
1805
1800-1900, 19th century, George Eastman Collection, paintings, portraits, women
Painting
Henry Raeburn was almost exclusively a painter of portraits. The demand for his work was great enough to sustain a career in Scotland, and his commissions came primarily from the members of high society in and around the growing city of Edinburgh. Raeburn’s portraits are known for their naturalness and sensitivity to the sitter. They often take the form seen here, with a seated three-quarter length figure pictured in a landscape, painted as if seen from below.
This portrait is of a young noblewoman, Mary Johnston, the wife of James Johnston and the daughter of William Baillie, Lord Polkemmet, a Scottish judge whose portrait Raeburn had also painted.
[Forman Gallery, Summer 2015]
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