Lot 44
SIR JAMES GUTHRIE P.R.S.A., H.R.A., R.S.W., L.L.D. (SCOTTISH 1859-1930)
HALF-LENGTH PORTRAIT OF MAJOR RICHARD HOTCHKISS
Scottish Paintings & Sculpture
Auction: Day Sale | Lots 1 to 89 | Thursday 03 December 2026 from 2pm
Description
Signed and dated '90, oil on canvas
Dimensions
82cm x 62cm (32.5in x 24.5in)
Provenance
James N. Hotchkiss and thence by descent
Exhibited: Royal Glasgow Institute, Glasgow, 1893
Royal Society of Portrait Painters, London, 1893
New Salon, Paris, 1894
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 1894
Glasgow International Exhibition, Glasgow, 2 May - 4 November 1901
The British Council, Northern Capitals: Contemporary British Art touring exhibition, January - April 1939
Literature: D. S. MacColl, Nineteenth-century Art, Glasgow, 1902 repr. in photogravure
Art Journal ,1911, repr.pl.VI
Sir James L Caw, Sir James Guthrie: A Biography, London, 1932, pp.65, 79-80 and 216, repr.pl..VI
Footnote
The sitter was an Officer in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and this portrait was presented to him on his retiral from the Adjuntacy of the Regiment.
