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Huge Victorian Scottish Oil Painting Young Equestrian Lady Attributed Alexander Maclean

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This Huge Victorian Scottish Oil Painting features a beautiful Young Equestrian Lady, attributed to the renowned artist Alexander Maclean. The grand scale and intricate details of this masterpiece make it a must-have for any art collector or enthusiast. Own a piece of history and admire the beauty of equestrian art.
Title “Equestrian Young Lady” Attributed to Alexander Maclean C1875.
Subject portrait of a young Scottish equestrian lady in three quarter length front profile view, she is gazing towards the viewer, wearing her traditional horse riding clothes, buttoned black jacket, turquoise cravat & white shirt, brown leather golden brown riding gloves & holding her horse stick whip. She has rosy cheeks, brown eyes & long shoulder length brunette hair combed back.
Signed by the artist in the bottom lower corner A. Maclean.
Attributed to the Scottish artist Alexander Maclean 1840-1877.
Circa 1875 Victorian era.
Medium oil on canvas.
Set in the original decorative gilt wood frame which enhances this artwork even greater.
Frame is a huge display size being 106 cm wide and 140 cm high.
Set in a fine gilt frame which enhances this painting further.
With hanging thread on the back ready for immediate home display.
Alexander Maclean (November 1840 – 30 October 1877) was a Scottish painter. Maclean was born in the month of November around the early Victorian era in the year 1840, his father was David Maclean who worked as a manufacturer in Glasgow. Alexander was educated in Helensburgh also Edinburgh, then he was placed in business at Glasgow, which he left in 1861. He then adopted the profession of an artist, and studied at Rome, Florence, and Antwerp. His first exhibition was at the Royal Academy in 1872. In 1874 he attracted public notice there with his 'Covent Garden Market,' and again in 1876 with 'Looking Back.' This success he followed up in 1877 with 'At the Railings, St. Paul's, Covent Garden.' His health, however, began to fail, and he died at the relative young age of 36 on 30 October 1877 at St. Leonards-on-Sea, at the commencement of a very promising career. The highest known sold price for one of his artworks was for the work Covent Garden Market $102,700 US dollars that sold at the auction house Christie’s.
Source see Christie’s Cust, Lionel Henry (1893). "Maclean, Alexander". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 35. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
Provenance W.A Smith. (Late J Green), D.T Beesley LTD, Phelps NO 115, Private collection from the Greater London based Vendor, high end London auction, Exhibited Famous Lord Hill Museum & in collcetion of Cheshire Antiques Consultant LTD.
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Condition report.
Offered in fine used condition.
The front painting surface is in good overall order with various foxing staining & craquelure in areas commensurate with usage & old age. Canvas has had some restoration paint touch ups to the background area. The original frame has had some repairs & been overpainted, having various signs of wear, scuffs, cracking scratches, some losses in places commensurate with usage & old age.
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Dimensions in centimetres of the frame

High (140 cm)
Width (106 cm)
Length depth thickness of frame (5 cm)