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Collector's Journal — Scottish Art

Collecting the Scottish Highlands: William Beattie-Brown’s Sgùrr nan Gillean

19th Century Art Anthony Woodd Gallery Art Collectors Art Provenance British Art Cuillin Mountains Design Trade Film and Television Fine Art Collecting Highland Art Highland Landscape Historic Paintings Interior Design Interior Designers Isle of Skye Private Collectors Production Design Royal Scottish Academy Scottish Art Scottish Landscape Painting Sgùrr nan Gillean Victorian Art Victorian Painting William Beattie-Brown

Collecting the Scottish Highlands: William Beattie-Brown’s Sgùrr nan Gillean

Explore William Beattie-Brown’s Sgùrr nan Gillean, Skye, a Victorian Highland landscape with a probable 1871–1884 date, Anthony Woodd Gallery provenance and documented Lyon & Turnbull auction history.

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Sir James Campbell of Lawers: A Georgian Military Portrait and the William Aikman Connection

18th Century Art 18th Century Paintings Antique Oil Paintings Art Attribution Art Collectors Art History Art Provenance Battle of Dettingen Battle of Fontenoy British Fine Art British Military History Cheshire Antiques Consultant LTD Collectors Journal Design Trade Early Georgian Art Edinburgh Castle Film and Television Fine Art Collecting Fine Art Research Georgian Art Georgian Portraits Historic Interiors Historical Portraits Interior Designers Military Portraits National Galleries of Scotland Old Master Paintings Order of the Bath Portrait Paintings Private Collectors Production Design Royal North British Dragoons Scots Greys Scottish Art Scottish Military History Scottish Portraits Sir James Campbell Sir James Campbell of Lawers William Aikman

Sir James Campbell of Lawers: A Georgian Military Portrait and the William Aikman Connection

Explore new research into an early Georgian Scottish portrait of Sir James Campbell of Lawers, its historic William Aikman attribution and remarkable military history.

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George Houston: Evening, Glen Sannox — An Atmospheric Scottish Landscape, c.1900–1920

Art Research & Provenance British Art Early 20th Century Art Evening Glen Sannox Fine Art George Houston George Houston RSA RSW Glen Sannox Ian MacNicol Fine Art Isle of Arran Landscape Painting McTear’s Scottish Art Scottish Artists Scottish Landscape

George Houston: Evening, Glen Sannox — An Atmospheric Scottish Landscape, c.1900–1920

Explore Evening, Glen Sannox, an atmospheric signed Scottish landscape by George Houston RSA RSW (1869–1947), dating to circa 1900–1920. Depicting the mountains of the Isle of Arran at dusk, the painting retains an important Ian MacNicol Fine Art, Glasgow label recording both its historic title and artist, together with documented McTear’s provenance.

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The Newfoundland Rescue Dog: Legend, Sculpture and the Scottish Kennel Club

Animal Sculpture Animalier Sculpture Art Research British Sculpture Bronze Sculpture Canine Art Collectors Journal Dog History Dog Sculpture HELP Scottish KC Maritime History Maritime Rescue Newfoundland Bronze Newfoundland Dog Newfoundland History Provenance Research Reuben Decker S.S. Ethie Scottish Art Scottish KC Scottish Kennel Club SS Ethie Wisher Working Dogs

The Newfoundland Rescue Dog: Legend, Sculpture and the Scottish Kennel Club

An intriguing early twentieth-century bronze Newfoundland bears the inscription “HELP Scottish K.C.”, opening a fascinating story of canine history, maritime rescue and the enduring legend surrounding the S.S. Ethie disaster of 1919.

 

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