Jodie Nayler
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Lot 56
George Houston RSA RSW RGI(British, 1869-1947)Glengarnock Castle, Ayrshire
8 October 2025, 14:00 BST
Edinburgh£2,000 - £3,000
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George Houston RSA RSW RGI (British, 1869-1947)
Glengarnock Castle, Ayrshire
signed 'GEORGE HOUSTON' (lower left)
oil on canvas
102 x 127.5cm (40 3/16 x 50 3/16in).
signed 'GEORGE HOUSTON' (lower left)
oil on canvas
102 x 127.5cm (40 3/16 x 50 3/16in).
Footnotes
Provenance
Sale, Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh, 28 May 2009, lot 42.
Private collection, UK (acquired at the above sale).
Exhibited
It is believed that this work is that with the same title and which we know to have been exhibited as follows
Glasgow, Warneuke's Galleries, Spring, 1915.
Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, 1915, no. 151.
Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, Autumn Exhibition, 1915, no. 1177.
As mentioned above, it is believed that the present work is that discussed in Euan Robson's book on the artist as follows:
"Houston did not exhibit at the Institute in 1915, for what reason is unclear. Glengarnock Castle (untraced) was shown at the Academy that year and also sent to the Autumn exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, to which Houston submitted work occasionally until 1935. The same picture formed a focal point at Houston's one-man show at Warneuke's Galleries earlier the same year, where it seems to have been purchased by a Mr Arthur Greenlees... In its review of the show The Bailie emphasised Houston's continued high standing and declared that 'every canvas that leaves his easel is one to be admired and coveted'."
(Euan Robson, George Houston: Nature's Limner, Edinburgh, 1997, p. 54-55).