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Description
Huge Scottish Victorian 19th Century oil painting on canvas portrait of Young Equestrian Lady Attributed Alexander Maclean. Impress your guests & clients in your home or office with this historic equestrian portrait masterpiece.
Title “Equestrian Young Lady” Attributed to Alexander Maclean.
Subject portrait of a young Scottish equestrian lady in three quarter length front profile view, she is gazing towards the viewer, wearing her traditional horse riding clothes, buttoned black jacket, turquoise cravat & white shirt, brown leather golden brown riding gloves & holding her horse stick whip. She has rosy cheeks, brown eyes & long shoulder length brunette hair combed back.
Signed by the artist in the bottom lower corner A. Maclean.
Attributed to the Scottish artist Alexander Maclean 1840-1877.
Set in the original decorative gilt wood frame which enhances this artwork even greater.
Set in a fine gilt frame which enhances this painting further.
With hanging thread on the back ready for immediate home display.
Alexander Maclean (November 1840 - 30th October 1877) was a Scottish painter. Maclean was born in the month of November around the early Victorian era in the year 1840, his father was David Maclean who worked as a manufacturer in Glasgow. Alexander was educated in Helensburgh also Edinburgh, then he was placed in business at Glasgow, which he left in 1861. He then adopted the profession of an artist, and studied at Rome, Florence, and Antwerp. His first exhibition was at the Royal Academy in 1872. In 1874 he attracted public notice there with his 'Covent Garden Market,' and again in 1876 with 'Looking Back.' This success he followed up in 1877 with 'At the Railings, St. Paul's, Covent Garden.' His health, however, began to fail, and he died at the relative young age of 36 on 30 October 1877 at St. Leonards-on-Sea, at the commencement of a very promising career. The highest known sold price for one of his artworks was for the work Covent Garden Market $102,700 US dollars that sold at the auction house Christie’s.
Source see Christie’s Cust, Lionel Henry (1893). "Maclean, Alexander". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 35. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
Provenance W.A Smith. (Late J Green), D.T Beesley Ltd, Phelps No 115, Private collection from the Greater London based Vendor, high end London auction, Exhibited Famous Lord Hill Museum & in collcetion of Cheshire Antiques Consultant Ltd.
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measurements
Height:
140 cm
Width:
106 cm
Depth:
5 cm
measurements
declaration
Cheshire Antiques Consultant LTD has clarified that the Huge Oil Painting Equestrian Lady Attributed Alexander Maclean c.1875 (LA514810) is genuinely of the period declared with the date/period of manufacture being 1875
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condition
condition
Offered in fine used condition. The front painting surface is in good overall order with various foxing staining and craquelure in areas commensurate with usage and old age. Canvas has had some restoration paint touch ups to the background area. The original frame has had some repairs & been overpainted, having various signs of wear, scuffs, cracking scratches, some losses in places commensurate with usage and old age.