Portrait of the Rev Principal Nicoll

Sir Henry Raeburn (1756 - 1823)

Museum of the University of St Andrews (MUSA)

1814

This full-length portrait shows Nicoll (1770-1835) seated by a table with books, as the collector of the Ministers' Widows Fund for which he was an active campaigner. In 1814, Raeburn became a Royal Academician, and in 1822 when George IV made his historic visit to Scotland, the artist was knighted. He died a year later, having achieved supremacy in Scotland as the foremost portraitist of his age.

• Medium: oil on canvas
• Dimensions: 210 x 150 cm
• Art Fund Grant: £1500 ( Total: £5,000; Tax Remission)
• ArtFunded in: 1988
• Vendor: Phillips de Pury

Provenance

Private treaty sale through Philips, Edinburgh.

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