Portrait of the Rev Principal Nicoll
Sir Henry Raeburn
- Art Funded
- 1988
- Dimensions
- 210 x 150 cm
- Vendor
- Phillips de Pury
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.
Provenance
Private treaty sale through Philips, Edinburgh.