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Lot 1055

John Myles
(British, fl 1850-1873)
Portrait of an Edinburgh City Officer 47 x 37.8 cm. (18 1/2 x 14 7/8 in.)

16 – 31 August 2011, 11:00 BST
Edinburgh

£1,500 - £2,000

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John Myles (British, fl 1850-1873)

Portrait of an Edinburgh City Officer
signed 'J Myles Painter' (lower right)
oil on board
47 x 37.8 cm. (18 1/2 x 14 7/8 in.)

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PROVENANCE:
Sale; Christie's, New York, 4th April 2007, lot 126

This may have been the picture exhibited as a 'City Officer' at the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, in 1851 (no. 282).

Little is known about the Edinburgh-based artist John Myles, who exhibited his paintings - portraits, landscape and genre scenes - at the Royal Scottish Academy between 1850 and 1873.

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