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RAEBURN, Sir Henry
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Young_Girl_Holding_Flowers
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1798-1800_
Oil_on_canvas,_
92_x_71_cm
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Young Girl Holding Flowers
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| 1798-1800
Oil on canvas,
92 x 71 cm |
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Scottish Romantic Painter, 1756-1823
Scottish painter. He is perhaps the best known of all Scottish painters, with a critical reputation rivalling that of Allan Ramsay. He was almost exclusively a portrait painter, and his work did much to define Scottish society in a period of immense vigour and intellectual distinction. The demand for his work was sufficient to sustain a career wholly in Scotland, although he occasionally regretted his lack of first-hand knowledge of portrait painting in London. His working life, which was largely confined to Edinburgh
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