John Hay

Artist Robert Brough (Invergordon, Scotland, 1872 - 1905)

SitterSitter is John Hay (Aberdeen, Scotland)

Mediumoil on canvas

ClassificationsPaintings And Drawings

DimensionsOverall: Height: 61 cm, Width: 51.2 cm
Frame: Height: 86.4 cm, Width: 76.3 cm

AcquisitionPresented in 1939 by Mrs J Hay.

CopyrightOut of copyright - CC0

LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub

Object numberABDAG002645

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About MeAlthough the Aberdeen artist Robert Brough died tragically young at 33 in a train crash, he studied for some time at the Royal Scottish Academy and also travelled abroad. In doing so developed his unique, essentially Post Impressionist style. Notably, Brough spent time abroad in Morocco with his contemporary George Percy Jacomb Hood, despite the fact that it was still a dangerous country for a Westerner to travel in, and began favouring still lives as opposed to portraiture. However, on his return to Britain, the artist continued portraiture to accommodate the immense popularity for such paintings in Britain at the time.

John Hay formed his first partnership with the photographer George Washington Wilson, although this slowly dissolved and Hay co-founded the frame-making firm Hay and Lyall, picture and print dealers and frame makers, in Market Street & Union Street, Aberdeen. The firm provided frames for most Aberdonian artists in the second half of the nineteenth century, including Brough. This is a posthumous portrait, completed shortly after Hay's death.

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The application of the paint seems very energetic with big broad, broad, brushstrokes.