Margaret gillies was a pupil of Frederick Cruikshank, the Scottish miniature painter. During the first two decades of her career she made large miniature portraits, and some subject compositions that were exhibited widely, including at the Royal Academy and the Society of British Artists. She produced portraits of many of the leading writers, intellectuals and social reformers of the day. From the 1840s she specialised increasingly in larger subject pictures, often portraying suffering heroines from the bible, literature and history. After 1851, when she studied in Paris, her major works became increasingly religious in tone and allegorical in subject.
Gillies also exhibited 7 works at the Royal Scottish Soociety of Painters in Watercolours, 1 at the Glasgow Institute, and at Liverpool’s Walker Gallery.
Signed and dated 1873 by the artist Margaret Gillies (1803-1887), this is a lovely watercolour depicting an old lady and a child at the hearth of their croft-house.
This work measures 33 m by 39 cm (65 cm by 58 cm in its original frame). In good condition.
£700
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