. John Pettie, , ; . champagneor whisky. For his two first Pettie received apair of pedestals in Aberdeen granite, which stoodin his hall carrying busts, by George Lawson, ofMrs. Pettie and his son Ralph. In the shortspace of four years, up to the time of death, sixty-nine portraits weregot together; and six more, which had beenpromised, were afterwards added, together withseventeen obtained later by Mrs. figures largely in the Macdonald collection,for besides his portrait of himself, it contains hisportraits of W. Calder Marshall, , JosephE. Boeh
. John Pettie, , ; . champagneor whisky. For his two first Pettie received apair of pedestals in Aberdeen granite, which stoodin his hall carrying busts, by George Lawson, ofMrs. Pettie and his son Ralph. In the shortspace of four years, up to the time of death, sixty-nine portraits weregot together; and six more, which had beenpromised, were afterwards added, together withseventeen obtained later by Mrs. figures largely in the Macdonald collection,for besides his portrait of himself, it contains hisportraits of W. Calder Marshall, , JosephE. Boehm, , Thomas Faed, , J. Mac-Whirter, , and J. L. Pearson, Of two great painters of the Scottish School,George Paul Chalmers, , and Sam Bough,, both of them his personal friends, Pettieleft striking likenesses. Bough he painted almostin profile, with long beard, and without thespectacles which he usually wore. He is wrapped PORTRAIT OF SIR CHARLES WYNDHAM AS DAVID GARRICK {Size of original, 65^ x 45^.). 1^ ^ i-i L I 0 I PORTRAITS 153 in a loose robe with a tippet of sables, and isintended to represent a lord-in-waiting in theretinue of Cardinal Wolsey. The portrait isbroad in style and charming in colour. In histwo portraits of Chalmers, one in profile, theother full face, Pettie has given the best existingpresentments of the man whom close friendshipenabled him to know with thorough insight. Thetender and sympathetic character of the painter, towhom Fate was so unkind, finds noble expressionin both of these works. Another striking portraitof a Scottish painter is that of John Ballantyne,, who, after being assistant to Scott Lauderin Edinburgh, went to London and became curatorof the painting school at the Royal portrait, which shows Ballantyne as a captainin the uniform of the Edinburgh ArtilleryVolunteers, was painted entirely during onevisitorship of Pettie in the Academy Schools, asan instructive example of his method of
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