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SIR HENRY RAEBURN, R.A., P.R.S.A. (British 1756 - 1823). Portraits of Mr. and Mrs. William Mackenzie (pair), circa 1810 ... (Total: 2 Items)
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SIR HENRY RAEBURN, R.A., P.R.S.A. (British 1756 - 1823)Portraits of Mr. and Mrs. William Mackenzie (pair), circa 1810 - 1815
Oil on canvas
30 x 25 inches (each)
PROVENANCE:
William Mackenzie, Edinburgh;
Acquired by descent to Miss E. G. Mackenzie, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa;
Newhouse Galleries, New York, NY;
Mr. and Mrs. F. Howard Walsh, Fort Worth, Texas, 1966;
Walsh Family Art Trust
EXHIBITED:
Durban Art Gallery, Natal, South Africa, "Treasures from Natal Homes", November 1959.
Henry Raeburn was the leading portraitist in Edinburgh from the 1790s until his death in 1823. As a major cultural and intellectual center during the Enlightenment, the capital of Scotland was home to one of Europe's greatest universities and thus to a number of scholars and writers, many of whom commissioned portraits from Raeburn. One such patron was the novelist Henry Mackenzie (1745-1831), whose portrait Raeburn painted around 1810 (now in the National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG 455). This sitter bears a resemblance to the present William Mackenzie, particularly in the eyes and eyebrow ridge, and may perhaps be identified as his father. William Mackenzie may likewise be identified as the nineteenth century Scottish publisher based in Edinburgh. Without specific documentation, this identification remains speculative.
Mature compositions such as the present portraits reveal the classicizing influence of Sir Joshua Reynolds, whom Raeburn had met in London in 1784 before traveling in Italy for two years. Yet, in the midst of such influences, the Scottish painter forged his own unique style characterized most prominently by free, virtuoso brushwork. Passages such as William's white collar and the bodice of his wife's white gown are freely described with a fluidity of brushstroke that underscores the artist's skill. The strong light focuses attention on the faces of both sitters, while Raeburn's loose description of Mrs. Mackenzie's red cloak adds a richness of color and texture to the pair of portraits.
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