David Martin 1737-1798
Overview
Portrait of Captain Charles Kerr of Calderbank (1753-1813), exhibited 2016 - SOLD
Portrait painter and engraver David Martin was born in Anstruther Easter, Fife, and was taught by Allan Ramsay in London, with whom he subsequently travelled to Rome. He established his own studio in Edinburgh in the 1770s and became the most important portrait painter in Scotland before Henry Raeburn. Appointed painter to the Prince of Wales in Scotland, David Martin's sitters included members of the Scottish Enlightenment and other society figures. His portrait of Benjamin Franklin (1767) hangs in the White House, Washington, DC.
Exhibitions
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Twenty Twenty
25 Sep - 14 Nov 2020 EdinburghFra Giovanni Giocondo, a late 15th, early 16th century priest and scholar who designed the bridge at Notre Dame said, 'The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind...Read more -
Five Centuries of Scottish Portraiture
30 Jul - 3 Sep 2011 EdinburghPortraits are windows into the period in which in they were painted – not merely because they demonstrate the painting techniques of the time, the fashions of art or of...Read more
