About this artwork
Throughout 1879 and 1880, the young Guthrie completed several experimental genre pictures under the direct influence of the London-based Scottish painter John Pettie (1839-1893). This very rare example is a study of a French Jacobin revolutionary. Until 2003 it was known only from a description in the biography of Guthrie published by the Gallery’s Director Sir James Lewis Caw in 1932. The extraordinary evolution in the artist’s style and subject matter during the early 1880s may be seen in Miss Sowerby (1882) and A Hind’s Daughter (1883), an icon of Glasgow School painting.
Updated before 2020
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artist:Sir James Guthrie (1859 - 1930) Scottish
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title:A Gallant of the Terror
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date created:1880
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materials:Oil on canvas
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measurements:61.20 x 45.70 cm; Framed: 83.70 x 68.50 x 11.30 cm / 11.00 kg
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credit line:From the Estates of the late Dr and Mrs A.F. McDonald. Donated by their Sons, 2003
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accession number:NG 2758
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artwork photographed by:Antonia Reeve
Sir James Guthrie
Sir James Guthrie
Guthrie became one of the leading painters in the group of artists called the Glasgow Boys. His early works of rural subjects painted with broad square brush strokes show the strong influence of French painters such as Bastien-Lepage. Guthrie was born in Greenock and trained as a lawyer before...
