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Showing posts with label Sir William Oliphant Hutchison. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sir William Oliphant Hutchison. Show all posts

Friday, February 21, 2020

A mother and sons - two family groups by William Oliphant Hutchison, 1925 and 1929


 Reading aloud, Marjory and the boys, 1929. The children are Robert Edward (Robin), born in 1922, and Henry Peter, born in 1919.
Family Group, 1926. A third child, a daughter, Helen Elizabeth Anne, was born in 1935.

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Sir William Oliphant Hutchison (2 July 1889, Kirkcaldy – 5 February 1970, London), Scottish portrait and landscape painter. He attended the Edinburgh College of Art between 1909 and 1912; on leaving he started the Edinburgh Group. He also worked and studied in Paris for a time, mainly painting portraits, though also producing landscape and figure paintings. He enlisted during the First World War, serving with the Royal Garrison Artillery, and later being badly wounded in France. He married painter Edward Arthur Walton's youngest daughter Margery in 1918. He and his wife occupied a studio flat in Edinburgh until 1921, before moving to London. There he successfully worked as a portrait painter, exhibiting at the Royal Academy, becoming a member of the Savage Club, and enjoying a large circle of friends, mainly from the art world. He then became Director of the Glasgow School of Art from 1933 until 1943. He would also serve in numerous art-related positions: Committee member of The Edinburgh College of Art, President of The Glasgow Art Club, Vice-president of The Scottish Modern Arts Association, member of the Royal Society of Arts, Honorary Member of the Royal Academy. And he served as President of the Royal Scottish Academy from 1950 to 1959. He was knighted in 1953 and died seventeen years later at the age of eighty.

The couple's daughter, Helen Elizabeth Anne, 1949.



Sunday, February 9, 2020

Autoportraits et quelques autres hommes


Self-portrait, by Daniel Mytens, circa 1630.
Portrait d’un artilleur de la garde nationale portant l’Ordre de la Croix de Juillet, attributed to Jean Alaux, 1837.
Self-portrait, by Nikolai Ivanovich Feshin, 1920.
Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov, by Louis Tocqué, circa 1750s.
Courtesy Ralf De Jonge.
Carlo Ludovico II, King of Etruria, Duke of Lucca, by unknown artist, circa 1824.
René Andreau, by Georges-Daniel de Monfreid, 1895.
Self-portrait, Adelaide Road, by Sir Stanley Spencer, 1939.
Jean-Baptiste-Claude Odiot (who was, perhaps unsurprisingly, a silversmith), by Robert Lefèvre, 1822.
Martín Antonio Álvarez de Sotomayor y Soto-Flores, conde de Colomera, by Agustín Esteve, 1798.
Australian soldier James Aloysius Canty, by Damien Parer, 1942.
Self-portrait, by Govaert Teuniszoon Flinck, circa 1643.
Self-portrait, by Sir William Oliphant Hutchison, 1926.
Self-portrait, by Gino Severini, 1909.
 Folke Bäcklund, by Gustaf Reimers, 1915.
George Gordon, 6th Lord Byron, by George Sanders, circa 1807-09.
 The youth in red is thought to be Robert Rushton, who was employed as a valet by Lord Byron from 1808.
Étude pour un apôtre, by Paul Delaroche, 1835.
The young Henry James, photographer unknown, circa 1860s.
Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Duke of Saxony, later Léopold 1, King of the Belgians, after George Dawe, circa 1816-17.
The marquis de Lafayette, by Samuel F. B. Morse, 1826.
Self-portrait, by Henry Inman, 1834.
Autoportrait au chapeau, by Maurice Mazo, 1927.
Louis-François Bertin, by Jean-Louis Laneuville, circa 1796-7.
Self-portrait, Agathon Fabergé, 1918.
Courtesy Ralf De Jonge.
William Fraser of Reelig, by Sir Henry Raeburn, 1801.
Portrait of a Young Man, by Max Von Poosch, 1944.
Bao, an Algerian Spahi, by Niels Simonsen, circa 1840s.