Neat George Reid 1800s Antique Print Signed \"Two Boys tend a Flock of Sheep\" COA

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Neat George Reid 1800s Antique Print Signed \"Two Boys tend a Flock of Sheep\" COA:
$184.00

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Artist:Sir George Reid (Scottish, 1841-1913)
Signature: Signed in the plate lower left..
Year:1887
Condition: Excellent
Dimensions: Image Size 7 3/4 x 10 inches.
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Additional notes:
This is not a modern print. This impression is more than 180 years old. The strike is crisp and the lines are sharp. The original oil on canvas is held in the Royal Scottish Academy (United Kingdom - Edinburgh).

Extra Information:
The painting depicts the coastal town of Dornoch in the county formerly referred to as Sutherland of which it was once the capital. The distinctive form of the thirteenth-century Cathedral which is cruciform with a central spire and the tall crow stepped tower house, formally a sixteenth-century Episcopal Palace, can be seen in Reid\'s painting in the middle ground to the left.

Artist Biography:Sir George Reid was a Scottish artist. Reid was born in Aberdeen in 1841. He developed an early passion for drawing, which led to his being apprenticed in 1854 for seven years to Messrs Keith & Gibb, lithographers in Aberdeen. In 1861 Reid took lessons from an itinerant portrait-painter, William Niddrie, who had been a pupil of James Giles, R.S.A., and afterwards entered as a student in the school of the Board of Trustees in Edinburgh. Reid returned to Aberdeen to paint landscapes and portraits for any trifling sum which his work could command. His first portrait to attract attention, from its fine quality, was that of George Macdonald, the poet and novelist, now the property of the University of Aberdeen. His early landscapes were conscientiously painted in the open air and on the spot. But Reid soon came to see that such work was inherently false, painted as the picture was day after day under varying conditions of light and shade. Accordingly, in 1865 he proceeded to Utrecht to study under Alexander Mollinger, whose work he admired for its unity and simplicity. This change in his method of viewing nature was looked on as revolutionary by the Royal Scottish Academy, and for some years his work found little favour in that quarter; but other artists gradually adopted the system of tone-studies, which ultimately prevailed. Reid went to Paris in 1868 to study under the figure painter Yvon; and he worked in 1872 with Jozef Israëls at the Hague. From this time forward Reid\'s success was continuous and marked. He showed his versatility in landscape, as in his Whins in Bloom, which combined great breadth with fine detail; in flower-pieces, such as his Roses, which were brilliant in rapid suggestiveness and force; but most of all in his portraits, which are marked by great individuality, and by fine insight into character. His work in black-and-white, his admirable illustrations in brushwork of Edinburgh and its neighbourhood, and also his pen-drawings, about which it has been declared that \"his work contains all the subtleties and refinements of a most delicate etching,\" must also be noted. Elected Associate of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1870, Reid attained full membership in 1877, and took up his residence in Edinburgh, at 17 Carlton Terrace on Calton Hill, in 1882. In 1891 he was elected President - a post which he held until 1902 - receiving also the honour of knighthood, and he was awarded a gold medal at the Paris Exhibition of 1900. In later life he lived at 22 Royal Terrace on Edinburgh\'s Calton Hill.

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Neat George Reid 1800s Antique Print Signed \"Two Boys tend a Flock of Sheep\" COA:
$184.00