View of Aberdeen

Artist William Mosman (Aberdeen, Scotland, c.1700 - 1771)

Date1756

Mediumoil on canvas

ClassificationsPaintings And Drawings

DimensionsOverall: Height: 88.6 cm, Width: 175.7 cm
Frame: Height: 123.9 cm, Width: 213 cm

AcquisitionTransferred in 1964 from Aberdeen Town House.

CopyrightOut of copyright - CC0

LocationOn Display - Gallery 15

Object numberABDAG004432

Keywords

About MeIn 1738 William Mosman returned to Scotland from Rome, where he had been studying, and for some years divided his time between Aberdeen and Edinburgh. In the early 1750s he settled in Aberdeen, where in 1756 he received an important commission from the Council to paint this view of the city.

This painting has obvious faults of perspective, which are surprising from an artist who had studied in Italy for six years. Yet there is a certain charm in the naïvety of this view and the enlarging of certain figure groups allows for closer examination of the elegant ladies and the salmon fishers working the estuary.

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Exhibitions

View of Aberdeen