Arthur Stewart Mackay - The Old Lady and Her Dog
Arthur Stewart Mackay - The Old Lady and Her Dog
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ARTHUR STEWART MACKAY
(1909-1998)
The Old Lady and Her Dog
Bears title and the artist’s name and address on the Royal Academy label attached to the reverse, oil on board
Framed
25 by 17.5 cm.; 9 ¾ by 7 in.
(frame size 32.5 by 25 cm., 12 ¾ by 9 ¾ in.)
Provenance:
Purchased at the Royal Academy Exhibition by Margaret Rawlings, Lady Barlow, and thence by descent.
Exhibited:
London, Royal Academy, 1985, no.421.
This picture is accompanied by a letter from the artist to Lady Barlow in which he explains that the subject is based upon a portrait of his mother seated beneath his sketching umbrella.
Born in London, Mackay studied at the Regent Street Polytechnic School of Art and Hornsey School of Arts and Crafts where he was a bronze medallist. Working as a painter and poster artist he also lectured at Hammersmith College of Art. He exhibited and the Royal Academy, Royal Society of British Arts and elsewhere. He became a member of the Royal Society of Painters in Oils in 1949. Two works by him are in the collection of the Imperial War Museum, London.
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