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Scottish Lovers

Scottish Lovers

Daniel Maclise

British artist Daniel Maclise (1806-1870) is best known for his history paintings such as portraits of the great British soldier Wellington,who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo, and Admiral Nelson, the hero of the battle of Trafalgar, paintings which now hang in the Royal Gallery at Westminster. In these paintings Maclise combined his love of recreating the details of the past with his fierce patriotism. Such a painting as we have here, however, shows a much lighter side of the artist: a charming portrayal of lovers in a natural setting. The woman has with her a sketch-book and her watercolors open behind her on the tree trunk, reminding us of the British passion for watercolor sketches in the open air in the last half of the nineteenth century.
Artist
Daniel Maclise
(Irish, active in England, 1806 - 1870)
Title
Scottish Lovers
Date
1863
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
28 x 36 in. Overall
Credit
Elvehjem Museum of Art General Endowment Fund purchase
Accession No.
1993.77
Classification
Paintings
Geography
Ireland

Related

1866, artist Daniel Maclise sold to Mr. Smith; possibly by descent to the Domenico family; Mr. Domenico; gifted to his wife, Mrs. Domenico, on the occasion of their wedding; passed through inheritance to their daughter Martha Domenico Olson (Winter Springs, FL); by gift or passed through inheritance to her husband, James A. Olson; 1986 acquired by an unknown private collector (New York); 1993, left the collection of this unknown private collector; 1993, G.W. Einstein Company (New York, NY) sold to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

  • "SchoolsMusuemsART (SMART) Project." Madison, WI: Madison Metropolitan School District, 2002.
  • Casteras, Susan P. "Victorian Vignettes: Daniel Maclise's 'Scottish Lovers' and Marie Spartali Stillman's 'La Pensierosa'." Bulletin/Biennial Report 1995-1997. Elvehjem Museum of Art (1997): 20-40. pp. 29-40
  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Bulletin/Annual Report 1993-1995." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1995. p. 100
  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Artscene." Vol. 10, No. 3, June /July/ August 1994. p. 3

  • Golden Age of British Watercolors 1790-1910, The: Chazen Museum of Art, 9/22/2012–12/2/2012

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