


William McTaggart RSA RSW(British, 1835-1910)Mrs Campbell and Master Farquhar, Ormsary 78 x 92.5 cm. (30 11/16 x 36 7/16 in.)
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William McTaggart RSA RSW (British, 1835-1910)
signed and dated 'W McTaggart/ ARSA/1862' (lower right)
oil on canvas
78 x 92.5 cm. (30 11/16 x 36 7/16 in.)
Footnotes
Provenance
The sitter, Helen Campbell, was daughter of John Lorne Stewart, 1st Laird of Coll
Thence by family descent
Exhibited
Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, 1863, cat.no.648
Literature
J.L. Caw, William MacTaggart,- A Biography and An Appreciation, James Maclehose & Sons, Glasgow, 1917, p. 226
McTaggart had a long exhibiting career, spanning the latter half of the 19th century, and his early work is in the Pre-Raphaelite idiom. Gradually, the portrait commissions which sustained him gave way to his principal interest, landscape, and here we see a successful early combination of both genres. The ultimate melding of the two was seen in numerous depictions of children on the Machrihanish shore, at one with nature.