Study for "The Legend"

Artist George Paul Chalmers (Montrose, Scotland, 1833 - 1878)

Date1864-1878

Mediumpencil and watercolour on paper

ClassificationsPaintings And Drawings

DimensionsSight Size: Height: 22.8 cm, Width: 31.1 cm
Frame: Height: 42.8 cm, Width: 51.1 cm

AcquisitionPresented in 1946 by Miss Duguid.

CopyrightOut of copyright - CC0

LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub

Object numberABDAG003312

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About MeGeorge Paul Chalmers came from Montrose but as a young man left to go to Edinburgh, where he studied art at the Trustees’ Academy, then directed by Robert Scott Lauder. Chalmers favoured complex and dramatic lighting in his paintings, leading to his nickname the ‘Angus Rembrandt’.

‘The Legend’ (National Gallery of Scotland), is an oil painting which he reworked and had still not completed to his satisfaction upon his untimely death. Set in the interior of a dark hovel, it shows a scene from Sir Walter Scott's novel 'The Pirate' in which the old seer Ulla Troil holds a group of children spellbound with her stories.

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"The Legend" (National Gallery of Scotland) is an oil painting of a scene from the Walter Scott novel "The Pirate" where an old woman holds children spellbound with her tales.