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ARTIST: Duncan Mackellar (British, 1849 - 1908)
TITLE: Before Concert
MEDIUM: watercolor on paper
CONDITION: Very minor foxing. Minor age toning. Framed under glass. Some damages to frame.
ART SIZE: 14 x 24 inches / 35 x 60 cm
FRAME SIZE: 26 x 36 inches / 66 x 91 cm
SIGNATURE: lower left
CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online
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BIOGRAPHY:
Mackellar studied art in Glasgow and London. He worked in a photographic studio tinting prints before becoming a full time painter in 1875. He specialised in painting figures and interiors of cottages and baronial halls. His paintings were notable for their delicacy of execution.Mackellar was an active exhibitor, showing in London at the Royal Academy, Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, Grosvenor Gallery and Dowdeswell's Galleries, as well as at the Royal Scottish Academy, Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Water Colours, Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, Aberdeen Artists' Association and the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. In 1885 he was elected a member of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Water Colours.Mackellar was among those Glasgow painters who in 1891 appended their names to a list requesting that the Corporation of Glasgow buy JW's Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle. In 1892 JW was approached by Mary Newton Mann about contributing a sketch to an album of watercolours and black and white drawings in order to raise 400 guineas for Queen Margaret College in Glasgow.
TITLE: Before Concert
MEDIUM: watercolor on paper
CONDITION: Very minor foxing. Minor age toning. Framed under glass. Some damages to frame.
ART SIZE: 14 x 24 inches / 35 x 60 cm
FRAME SIZE: 26 x 36 inches / 66 x 91 cm
SIGNATURE: lower left
CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online
AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US
USEFUL INFO ABOUT ART IS ON OUR SOCIAL MEDIA:
SKU#: 122516
US Shipping $120 + insurance.
BIOGRAPHY:
Mackellar studied art in Glasgow and London. He worked in a photographic studio tinting prints before becoming a full time painter in 1875. He specialised in painting figures and interiors of cottages and baronial halls. His paintings were notable for their delicacy of execution.Mackellar was an active exhibitor, showing in London at the Royal Academy, Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, Grosvenor Gallery and Dowdeswell's Galleries, as well as at the Royal Scottish Academy, Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Water Colours, Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, Aberdeen Artists' Association and the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. In 1885 he was elected a member of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Water Colours.Mackellar was among those Glasgow painters who in 1891 appended their names to a list requesting that the Corporation of Glasgow buy JW's Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle. In 1892 JW was approached by Mary Newton Mann about contributing a sketch to an album of watercolours and black and white drawings in order to raise 400 guineas for Queen Margaret College in Glasgow.
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Duncan Mackellar (UK,1849-1908) watercolor painting antique
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