museums and institutions:
museums and institutions:
museums and institutions:
museums and institutions:
Attributed works:
I. Landscape with Christ and John the Baptist, by Goffredo Wals. Copper, 28.5 cm. diam. Purchased with the Aid of the National Art Collections Fund, 1990. (National Gallery of Scotland).
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II. The Bell Rock lighthouse, by Joseph Mallord William Turner. Water-colour and gouache with scratching out, 30.6 by 45.5 cm. Purchased with major contributions from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Pilgrim Trust. (National Gallery of Scotland). Robert Stevenson, who built the Bell Rock lighthouse, wrote an account of its revolutionary design and construction for which he needed an engraved view as illustration, and he asked Sir Walter Scott for an introduction to Turner. The subject of human enterprise against the sublime power of the sea obviously appealed to the artist.
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III. Chesterfield wine cooler, with the maker's mark of Paul Crespin overstriking that of Paul de Lamerie. 1727-28. Silver, 27.2 cm. high. The Victoria and Albert Museum and the National Museums of Scotland succeeded in raising £750,000 to save the two Chesterfield wine coolers from export, and the second is now in the V & A. Major financial assistance was received from the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the National Art Collections Fund, Christie's International, the Pilgrim Trust, the Wolfson Foundation and the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, London. (Royal Museum of Scotland). The pair is from the ambassadorial service issued by the Royal Jewel House to Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773) for his embassy to The Hague between 1728 and 1732.
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IV. Hew Dalrymple, Lord Drummore, by Allan Ramsay. 1754. 127 by 102.2 cm. Purchased with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the National Art Collections Fund, 1989. (Scottish National Portrait Gallery). Ramsay's preliminary drawing for the portrait has been in the National Gallery of Scotland since 1860.
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IX. Pylons, by Tristram Hillier. 1933. 92 by 60.3 cm. Miss Elizabeth Watt Bequest, 1989. (Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art). Pylons was exhibited at the 1934 Unit One exhibition held at the Mayor Gallery, London, where it was purchased by Miss Watt. With Fig. VIII, it forms part of her remarkable collection of modern British art bequeathed to the Gallery on her death in 1989.
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V. Model for the monument to Henry Petty, 1st Earl of Shelburne (1675-1751, attributed to Louis François Roubiliac. Terracotta, 71 by 64 by 21 cm. Acquired in 1989. (Royal Museum of Scotland.)) This rejected proposal for the monument to the 1st Earl of Shelburne was probably made between the Earl's death on 17th April 1751 and 14th August 1751 when Peter Scheemakers apparently received the first payment for the tomb at High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire which is dated 1754. The relief, supported by three allegorial figures, shows the knighting of the Earl's father, Sir William Petty. Along the top of the plinth are traces of missing, sketchily modelled statuettes of the Earl's wife (d.1740) and other members of his family. An article by Malcolm Baker on this commission will appear in a forthcoming issue of this Magazine.
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VI. Self Portrait, by Robert Colquhoun. 41.2 by 33 cm. Purchased with the Help of the National Art Collections Fund (Modern Art Fund) in 1990. (Scottish National Portrait Gallery).
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VII. View of the square in Kastellet looking towards Kastelsvolden, by Christen Ko̵bke. c.1830. 30 by 23.5 cm. Purchased with the aid of the National Art Collections Fund, 1989. (National Gallery of Scotland). This early work by one of the Danish masters of the 'Golden Age' shows the bakery of the Kastellet, the citadel in Copenhagen which then served as a prison. The bakery was owned by Ko̵bke's father who is shown here with Major J. J. Krohn and the prison sergeant, Sporch.
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VIII. The ballet, by William Roberts. c.1933. 40.8 by 45.6 cm. Miss Elizabeth Watt Bequest, 1989. (Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art). Miss Watt purchased the picture from an exhibition of the London Artists Association held at the Cooling Galleries, Bond Street in 1933.
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X. Untitled (figure with raised arm), by Georg Baselitz. 1982-84, Painted wood, 253 by 71 by 46 cm. Purchased with assistance from the National Art Collections Fund, 1989. (Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art).
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XI. Mont Alba, by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. c.1923-27. Water-colour, 38.7 by 43.8 cm. Purchased 1990. (Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art). This is the first water-colour by Mackintosh to be acquired by the Gallery.
