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Portrait: What is the artist's name and who lent it to the exhibition?
« on: Monday 25 January 21 18:20 GMT (UK) »
Dear all,

Please take a look at the handwriting on the back of this portrait. It was lent to an exhibition in Glasgow and from what I can make out states on the 4th line 'John, Duke of Lauderdale.' This would make sense given the image but the first lines regarding who lent it to the exhibition and critically who the artist is I cannot make out.

Your help is much appreciated!

Best wishes,

Joshua

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Re: Portrait: What is the artist's name and who lent it to the exhibition?
« Reply #1 on: Monday 25 January 21 18:50 GMT (UK) »
 
I see

Colonel Gordon Gilmour  can't work out the next word
The Inch Liberton Midlothian

Julie
SPICER, HARRIS    Coventry
HUNTLEY     Wiltshire, Monmouthshire
GARDNER    Stoneleigh, Gloucestershire
HOLMES      Warwickshire
COX           Daventry, Coventry, Rugby
HALES        Stockton, Southam

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Re: Portrait: What is the artist's name and who lent it to the exhibition?
« Reply #2 on: Monday 25 January 21 18:57 GMT (UK) »
Colonel Gordon Gilmour of Craigmillar

Brigadier-General Sir Robert Gordon Gilmour (1857-1939) - you'll find him on Wikipedia.

What is the rough date of the painting?

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Re: Portrait: What is the artist's name and who lent it to the exhibition?
« Reply #3 on: Monday 25 January 21 19:21 GMT (UK) »
I thought the word going down the slope was Hamilton .
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Re: Portrait: What is the artist's name and who lent it to the exhibition?
« Reply #4 on: Monday 25 January 21 19:36 GMT (UK) »
There are quite a few newspaper articles mentioning Gordon Gilmour of The Inch, Liberton.
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Re: Portrait: What is the artist's name and who lent it to the exhibition?
« Reply #5 on: Monday 25 January 21 19:41 GMT (UK) »
That's excellent, thank you. The name of the lender and his address! Can anyone read the inscription next to 'Article lent,' and the last line after the one mentioning the Duke?

Re the picture it is early eighteenth century, late seventeenth. I would say it is contemporary to the Duke.

Best,

Joshua

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Re: Portrait: What is the artist's name and who lent it to the exhibition?
« Reply #6 on: Monday 25 January 21 19:44 GMT (UK) »
The words after ‘article lent’  are ‘Portrait of’
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Re: Portrait: What is the artist's name and who lent it to the exhibition?
« Reply #7 on: Monday 25 January 21 19:52 GMT (UK) »
Possibly exhibited at the Scottish National exhibition in 1911

03 May 1911 - Evening Mail - London


Doesn’t say the name of the artist!  Was there a catalogue I wonder. 

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