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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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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]
1978.6
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Memorial Art Gallery
11/3/2000
78.6SL1
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8 x 10
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78.6DI#2
digital image
7/7/2015
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