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A Young Girl Knitting
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A Young Girl Knitting

Artist (Edinburgh, Scotland, 1835 - 1918)
Date1869
Mediumsanguine on paper
ClassificationsPaintings And Drawings
DimensionsOverall: Height: 38.1 cm, Width: 32.1 cm
Frame: Height: 56 cm, Width: 40.7 cm
AcquisitionPresented in 1910 by Mrs Haines.
CopyrightOut of copyright
LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub
Object numberABDAG003311
About MeHugh Cameron was a pupil of Robert Scott Lauder at the Trustees Academy in Edinburgh. He later moved to London and had a successful career painting genre scenes, mainly of children and country life.

This work shows the influence of Dutch Hague School artists, who found inspiration in the lives of the peasants and fisherfolk of the Low Countries. Cameron visited the Netherlands and knew several Dutch artists. He too began to focus on ordinary scenes of everyday life, depicting them in an honest and straightforward way. This style became known as realism and gradually came to replace the imagined historical and narrative scenes favoured by many mid-Victorian artists.