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Sir Henry Raeburn RA, Portrait of Colonel Alexander Campbell of Possil, 1806
Sir Henry Raeburn RA, Portrait of Colonel Alexander Campbell of Possil, 1806
Sir Henry Raeburn RA, Portrait of Colonel Alexander Campbell of Possil, 1806

Sir Henry Raeburn RA 1756-1823

Portrait of Colonel Alexander Campbell of Possil, 1806
oil on canvas
30 x 25 inches

Further images

  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) Sir Henry Raeburn RA, Portrait of Colonel Alexander Campbell of Possil, 1806
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2 ) Sir Henry Raeburn RA, Portrait of Colonel Alexander Campbell of Possil, 1806
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 3 ) Sir Henry Raeburn RA, Portrait of Colonel Alexander Campbell of Possil, 1806

Provenance

By descent to John Campbell of Possil by 1868; G. Maclachlan of Castle Lachlan by 1876; Mrs Atherton by 1901; Newhouse Gallery, New York, 1969; Thomas Agnew & Sons Ltd, London, c.1970; Christie's, 20 November 1987, no.96a; 20 April 1990; private collection, UK

Exhibitions

The exhibition of portraits on loan in the new galleries of art, Corporation buildings, Glasgow, 1868, no.66 (lent by John Campbell of Possil); Royal Scottish Academy, Exhibition of the works of Sir Henry Raeburn, R.A., Edinburgh, 1876, no.205; Knoedler, Loan exhibition of portraits by Raeburn, New York, January 1913, no.2

Literature

Armstrong, pg.97; Pinnington, pg.221; Greig, pg.41

  

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