PG_1063Burns_Naysmithcrop.jpg
Summary
Artist |
artist QS:P170,Q966180
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Object type |
painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
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Description |
English:
Scottish National Portrait Gallery:
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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Date |
1787
date QS:P571,+1787-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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Medium | painting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q2441562
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Source/Photographer | nationalgalleries.org | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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