#william aikman

[history-of-fashion]

1729 William Aikman - Sir William Harbord

(Blickling Hall, Norfolk)

[portrait-paintings]

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.

[history-of-fashion]

1730 William Aikman - Edmund Prideaux

(Blickling Hall, Norfolk)

[portraituresque]

William Aikman - Self Portrait

William Aikman (24 October 1682 – 7 June 1731) was a Scottish painter.

[history-of-fashion]

1728 William Aikman - Sir Henry Harpur, 5th Bt

(Calke Abbey)

[history-of-fashion]

1730 William Aikman - Sir Thomas Saunders Sebright, 4th Bt or Mr Crawley

(Blickling Hall, Norfolk)

[artschoolglasses]

A Group Portrait of Four Girls and a Boy in a Landscape, William Aikman, 1720

[history-of-fashion]

ab. 1720 William Aikman - Sir Thomas Saunders Sebright, 4th Bt or, possibly, Mr Crawley

(Blickling Hall, Norfolk)