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Edinburgh Trustees Academy
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description
- Edinburgh Trustees Academy
- an album bound by Seton and Mackenzie of Edinburgh, containing approximately fifty watercolours and drawings by friends and aquaintances of John MacWhirter
- variously signed and inscribed
some pen and ink, others watercolour
Provenance
John MacWhirter and thence by descent to his daughter Agnes and her husband Charles Sims
Catalogue Note
The artists represented in the album were MacWhirter's fellow students at the Trustees Academy in Edinburgh and include William Quiller Orchardson, John Pettie, William MacTaggart, Sam Bough, William Fettes Douglas, James Cassie, Hugh Cameron. William Fleming Vallance, George Hay, John Hutchinson, John MacWhirter, Peter Graham, George Paul Chalmers, Horatio McCulloch and Keeley Halswelle.