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Sir Henry Raeburn RA, Portrait of Colonel Alexander Campbell of Possil, c.1820

Sir Henry Raeburn RA 1756-1823

Portrait of Colonel Alexander Campbell of Possil, c.1820
oil on canvas
30 x 25 inches

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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