iel Spens, in the Archers' Hall at Edinburgh, is an instance of this. To paint tartan at all is difficult ; but when the tartan is a criant green and spread smoothly over the whole stature of an athletic archer of six feet or more, the task becomes stupendous. And yet Raeburn triumphed. The picture… … PORTRAIT OF DR. ALEXANDER ADAM. BY RAEBURN. (From the picture in the Scottish National Gallery.) in colour, and by breadth and finality in execution. Perhaps a still finer example of the same sort of skill is the full-length portrait of Colonel Alastair Macdonnell of Glengarry, which at present…
Painting, Scottish · Painters
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