PG_1063Burns_Naysmith.jpg
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Summary
Alexander Nasmyth : Robert Burns, 1759 - 1796. Poet | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Artist |
artist QS:P170,Q966180
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Object type | painting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genre | portrait | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Description |
English:
Robert Burns, 1759 - 1796. Poet 1787.
This half-length portrait of Burns, framed within an oval, has become the most well-known and widely reproduced image of the famous Scottish poet. Nasmyth's painting, commissioned by the publisher William Creech, was to be engraved for a new edition of Burn's poems. He is shown fashionably dressed against a landscape, evoking his rural background in Alloway, Ayrshire. Burns and Nasmyth had become good friends, having been introduced to one another in Edinburgh by a mutual patron, Patrick Miller of Dalswinton. Nasmyth, pleased to have recorded Burns' likeness convincingly, decided to leave the painting in a slightly unfinished state.
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Depicted people | Robert Burns | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1787
date QS:P571,+1787-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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Medium | painting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dimensions |
height: 38.4 cm (15.1 in)
; width: 32.4 cm (12.7 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,+38.40U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,+32.40U174728
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q2441562
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Accession number |
PG 1063
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National Galleries Scotland
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Source/Photographer | http://www.nationalgalleries.org/collection/artists-a-z/N/3547/artistName/Alexander%20Nasmyth/recordId/1962 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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