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Wilson Matthen, 19th Century
Lot 319

Wilson Matthen, 19th Century

Group portrait of a lady and a gentleman, three-quarter-length, beside a piano, the former seated in a dark coat, the latter standing, holding the song sheet for 'Annie Laurie' and playing the piano with her right hand, a river landscape visible through a window beyond

Fermé14 July 2011

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GBP 6,250

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Wilson Matthen, 19th Century
Group portrait of a lady and a gentleman, three-quarter-length, beside a piano, the former seated in a dark coat, the latter standing, holding the song sheet for 'Annie Laurie' and playing the piano with her right hand, a river landscape visible through a window beyond
signed and dated 'Wilson Matthen 1850' (lower right) and inscribed 'Annie Laurie [...] favourite old ballad Sung by Mr WILSON, Piano Forte' (on the sheet of music)
oil on canvas
50¼ x 58¼ in. (127.6 x 147.9 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Christie's, Edinburgh, 1 November 2001, lot 14 (£3,500)

Note du spécialiste

This portrait may represent two of the figures who were closely connected with the traditional Scottish ballad 'Annie Laurie'; the singer John Wilson and Lady Douglas Scott, who had amended and set to music the original poem written by William Douglas in 1685.