Double portrait of a lady and gentleman, both three-quarter-length beside a piano in an interior, the lady holding the musical score for the ballad 'Annie Laurie'

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Wilson Matthen, 19th century
Double portrait of a lady and gentleman, both three-quarter-length beside a piano in an interior, the lady holding the musical score for the ballad 'Annie Laurie'
signed and dated 'Wilson Matthen 1850' (lower right) and te sheet of music inscribed 'Annie Laurie/... favourite old ballad/Sung by Mr WILSON, Piano Forte'
oil on canvas
50 x 58 in. (127 x 147 cm.)

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Lot Essay

This portrait may represent two of the figures who were closely connected with the traditional Scottish ballad 'Annie Laurie'; John Wilson and Lady John Douglas Scott. John Wilson, an Edinburgh born singer, was well-known for his renditions of traditional Scottish ballads. Lady John Douglas Scott in 1838 ammended and set to music the original 1685 poem that William Douglas wrote for his sweetheart, 'Bonnie Annie Laurie'.

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