Lot 43
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SIR JOHN WATSON GORDON, R.A., P.R.S.A. (1788-1864)
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SIR JOHN WATSON GORDON, R.A., P.R.S.A. (1788-1864)

PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN, THREE-QUARTER-LENGTH, IN A DARK BLUE COAT WITH FUR COLLAR AND CUFFS, IN A LANDSCAPE

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SIR JOHN WATSON GORDON, R.A., P.R.S.A. (1788-1864)
PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN, THREE-QUARTER-LENGTH, IN A DARK BLUE COAT WITH FUR COLLAR AND CUFFS, IN A LANDSCAPE
signed and dated 'John Watson Pinx, Edin. 1822.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
50 x 40¼ in. (127 x 102.3 cm.)
Provenance
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 23 November 1977, lot 27.
with Thomas Agnew & Sons Ltd., London, by whom sold on 3 July 1981.
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Lot Essay

John Watson Gordon studied with David Wilkie under John Graham (1754-1817) at the Trustees' Academy, Edinburgh, and received additional tuition from his uncle John Watson (1767-–1837) and Henry Raeburn (1756-1823), a close family friend. After Raeburn's death in 1823, Watson Gordon became Edinburgh's leading portrait painter and painted many notable Scottish figures including Sir Walter Scott (Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh) and Sir David Brewster (National Portrait Gallery, London). He exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1827 and 1864, and in 1850 he became President of the Royal Scottish Academy and Queen’s Limner for Scotland. His portraits show Raeburn's influence often displaying particularly free brushwork.

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