Description
Signed with a monogram and dated 1864, oil on canvas
Dimensions
36cm x 29cm (14.5in x 11.5in)
Footnote
Exhibited: Royal Scottish Academy 1864, no.444
Aitken Dott & Son, Exhibition of Thirty-six paintings by Wm. McTaggart, R.S.A 1907
Provenance:Mrs James Brechin, Edinburgh
Literature: James L Caw, William McTaggart 1917, p.40, "In detail this is one of the most elaborate of his works. Figures, roadway and foliage are all wrought to a wondeful compeleteness of 'finish' and yet the sense of ensemble holds them together and ensures pictorial unity,'' also p.227
Note: 'Unwillingly to school' was painted at Meikle Earnock near Hamilton.