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The minister portrayed in this painting is the Reverend Robert Walker. He was a Church of Scotland minister who was born on 30 April 1755 in Monkton, Ayrshire.When Walker was a child, his father had been the minister of the Scots Kirk in Rotterdam, so the young Robert almost certainly learnt to skate on the frozen canals of the Netherlands.
Joseph Farquharson DL RA (4 May 1846 – 15 April 1935) was a Scottish painter, chiefly of landscapes in Scotland often including animals. He is most famous for his snowy winter landscapes, often featuring sheep and often depicting dawn or dusk.
Scottish art is the body of visual art made in what is now Scotland, or about Scottish subjects, since prehistoric times. It forms a distinctive tradition within European art, but the political union with England has led its partial subsumation in British art .
It had appeared again in an exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1878. The painting passed by descent in the sitter's family until 1950, when it was sold to the National Gallery of Art, Washington. [11] The Skater may have influenced Henry Raeburn's later painting, The Skating Minister, considered a masterpiece of Scottish art. [8]
Following these tendencies, the two friends spent a year and a half in Japan. Henry's importance consists in his influence in the Glasgow school in the direction of richer and more decorative color. In addition to genre and landscape, he also painted portraits, more distinguished by technical ability than by rendition of character.
Ian Fairweather (1891–1974), Scottish/Australian painter; Christian Jane Fergusson (1876–1957), Dumfries and Galloway landscape and still-life painter; John Duncan Fergusson (1874–1961), member of the Scottish Colourists school; Henry Snell Gamley (1865–1928), sculptor specialising in war memorials and tombs; Robert Gavin (1827–1883 ...
Among the original works which he then painted was the Origin of Painting, now in the National Gallery of Scotland — representing a Corinthian maid drawing her lover's shadow — well known through Domenico Cunego's engraving. This won him the gold medal given by the Accademia di San Luca in 1773 for the best specimen of historical composition.
The painting, Statesmen of World War I, was completed in 1930, shortly before Guthrie's death. The painting was donated to the National Portrait Gallery, London . Guthrie's 17 preparatory oil studies were donated to Scottish National Portrait Gallery .