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1729 William Aikman - Sir William Harbord
(Blickling Hall, Norfolk)
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1729 William Aikman - Sir William Harbord
(Blickling Hall, Norfolk)
William Aikman, 1682 - 1731. Artist (Self-Portrait)
Artist: William Aikman (Scottish, 1682-1731)
Date: 1711-1715
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
Description
In this self-portrait, the young artist has shown himself much as he would one of his sitters. Aikman was the son and heir of an Angus laird but he sold his estates to fund his training as a painter. This confident image probably belongs to the period shortly after his return to Edinburgh after several years of study in London and Italy. No other artist in Scotland was able to match his European sophistication of style and he rapidly became the country's leading portrait painter.
William Aikman - Self Portrait
William Aikman (24 October 1682 – 7 June 1731) was a Scottish painter.
A Group Portrait of Four Girls and a Boy in a Landscape, William Aikman, 1720
Attributed to William Aikman (b.1682 - d.1731), 'Portrait of a Man from the Cathcart family', oil on canvas, late 1600s-early 1700s, Scottish, for sale at 2,295 GBP in Bonhams Old Master Paintings sale, October 2019; London, England.
Formerly in the collection of the Earl of Cathcart, 1929.
William Aikman (1682-1731), Portrait of John Gay, c. 1720
1730 William Aikman - Edmund Prideaux
(Blickling Hall, Norfolk)
Allan Ramsay, 1684 - 1758. Poet
Artist: William Aikman (Scottish, 1682-1731)
Date: 1772
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
Description
Allan Ramsay began his career in Edinburgh as a wig maker; he went on to become a bookseller, successful poet and an important member of Edinburgh's literary and artistic circles. He was a close friend of the artist, William Aikman, and this portrait was owned by another friend, Sir John Clerk of Penicuik. Clerk wrote on the back of the canvas, imitating Ramsay's verse: 'Here painted on this canvas clout by Aikman's hand is Ramsay's snout'.