Lot 95
SIR JAMES GUTHRIE P.R.S.A., R.S.W., H.R.A., N.E.A.C (1859-1930)
FULL LENGTH PORTRAIT OF MAGGIE HAMILTON IN AN EMERALD GREEN DRESS
Auction: 9 December 2004 at 11:00 GMT
£10,575
Description
Signed, oil on canvas
Dimensions
60cm x 28cm (24in x 11in)
Footnote
Provenance:The sitter and thence by descent
Exhibited:Helensburgh & District Art Club, 1972, Helensburgh & The Glasgow School, no.2
Note:Maggie Hamilton was an embroiderer of note as well as a painter in oils and watercolour. She married Alexander Nisbet Paterson the distinguished architect and painter who is described by Gomme & Walker in 'Architecture in Scotland' 1987, as "A fastidious , comfortably off and retiring architect, whose best work is too little known". The painting dates from1892.
Literature: Sir James Caw, Sir James Guthrie, 1932, p.217