My Great Grandmother by James Archer Antique Print Old Picture 1912 #26

Description: My Great Grandmother by James Archer Antique Print 1912A colour print from a disbound art book from 1912. The reverse side is blank. Suitable for framing, the actual picture size is approx 7" x 10" or 18cm x 25cm printed on textured paper and one side mounted to heavyweight card paper which forms a border. Page size including border mount approx 7.75" x 11.5" This is an antique print from 1912 not a modern copy and does show signs of age or previous use commensurate with the age of the print including foxing or marks on the surrounding mount. Please view the scans as they form part of the description. All pictures will be sent bagged and in a board backed envelope for protection in transit. While every care is taken to ensure my scans or photos accurately represent the item offered for sale, due to differences in monitors and internet pages my pictures may not be an exact match in brightness or contrast to the actual item. Text taken from the opposite page. Please note this cannot be supplied with the print. Any spelling errors are due to the OCR program used. MY GREAT GRANDMOTHER By JAMES ARCHER, R.S.A. (1823-1904) IN THE GUILDHALL ART GALLERY, LONDON For many years the work of James Archer was extremely popular, though to-day it is hardly so well known as it deserves, public knowledge of his pictures being mainly limited to the present subject, to a couple of paintings in the Glasgow Art Gallery (a classical subject and a portrait of John Francis Ure), and to his diploma picture, " Rosalind and Celia," from Shakespeare's "As You Like It," which hangs in the National Gallery of Scotland at Edinburgh. He was the son of a dentist, and was born in Edinburgh, where he was educated at the High School, He studied art at the Trustees' Academy of that city, and when he was eighteen years of age he exhibited his first picture at the Royal Scottish Academy, From that time his paintings were an almost annual feature of the Scottish Academy until the time of his death. First of all he turned his attention to portrait work executed in crayon, varied by subject pictures which attracted such attention that in 1850 he was elected an Associate of the Royal Scottish Academy, becoming a full Academician eight years later. He removed to London in 1864, having in the meantime produced a large number of subject pictures dealing with historical and romantic subjects. After that time, however, he devoted himself largely to portrait work again, visiting America and India in the course of his profession. In the later years of his life, he took up his favourite style of painting once more, depicting scenes from the Bible, history, and ballad poetry. "My Great Grandmother," therefore, is an example of the work by which he attained considerable fame, and from which, it is to be presumed, he derived his most lucrative commissions.

Price: 3.49 GBP

Location: Dereham

End Time: 2024-12-15T00:13:34.000Z

Shipping Cost: 20.6 GBP