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SOME PORTRAITS BY
RAEBURN
'yHROUGH the initiative of a prominent
citizen, Edinburgh has been in possession,
for some autumn weeks, of a gallery of
paintings of singular merit and interest
They were exposed in the apartments of the
Scotch Academy ; and filled those who are
accustomed to visit the annual spring exhibi-
tion, with astonishment and a sense of in-
congruity. Instead of the too common purple
sunsets, and pea-green fields, and distances
executed in putty and hog's lard, he beheld,
looking down upon him from the walls of
room after room, a whole army of wise, grave,
humorous, capable, or beautiful countenances,
painted simply and strongly by a man of
genuine instinct. It was a complete act of
RAEBURN
'yHROUGH the initiative of a prominent
citizen, Edinburgh has been in possession,
for some autumn weeks, of a gallery of
paintings of singular merit and interest
They were exposed in the apartments of the
Scotch Academy ; and filled those who are
accustomed to visit the annual spring exhibi-
tion, with astonishment and a sense of in-
congruity. Instead of the too common purple
sunsets, and pea-green fields, and distances
executed in putty and hog's lard, he beheld,
looking down upon him from the walls of
room after room, a whole army of wise, grave,
humorous, capable, or beautiful countenances,
painted simply and strongly by a man of
genuine instinct. It was a complete act of
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1887 [Date published] |
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Europe >
United Kingdom >
England >
Greater London >
London
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Collections (object groupings) Essays |
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Chatto & Windus (Firm) [Publisher] Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 [Author] R. & R. Clark (Firm) [Printer] |
Person / organisation: |
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 [Author] |
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