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March 05, 2005
Raeburn or Danloux?
Curators at the National Gallery of Scotland now think that the famous picture of ‘Rev Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch’ may be by Henri-Pierre Danloux rather than Sir Henry Raeburn. Interesting, but does this matter one wonders? It’s a good picture whoever painted it.
However Liberal Democrat MSP Jamie Stone - apparently not a trained art historian - has declared it is “definitely” a Raeburn. Not the first time, or doubtless the last, that we have an MSP out of his depth (see also 13 February).
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/4315433.stm
UPDATE 15 March 2005
Now another art historian, Duncan Thomson, formerly of the National Portrait Gallery, is arguing for the Raeburn attribution!
thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=280012005
Posted by Simon Holledge at March 5, 2005 06:06 PM
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